Registered Nurse

Our highly competitive, rigorous nursing program gives you face-to-face classes, laboratory activities, clinical rotations, and an online capstone course. This course of study requires approximately 2 years of prerequisite coursework. Once you enter the RN program, you will complete 2 years (60 credits) of core nursing program courses.

Registered nurses may be employed in a wide variety of settings including acute care hospital settings, long term care settings, homes, at schools providing care for children and families of those children, in occupational settings promoting employee health, for public health departments, in physician offices, and many others including options to provide healthcare for persons in underserved areas of the world as a part of a religious community or as a member of a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). Their work may involve direct patient care, supervision of certain other nursing personnel, assessment of persons in need of health care, planning care for those persons, delivering or supervising the delivery of the needed care, and evaluation of the patients' outcomes after the care has been provided. All registered nurses are also responsible for patient, family, group, or community health education on health promotion and disease or injury prevention.