Take your next step! CIU’s 100% online RN to BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) program is designed for the full-time working adult student with an Associate degree or diploma in Nursing. You can transfer up to 81 credits with an active, unencumbered RN licensure. Move your nursing career forward and open the door to advanced nursing positions by completing CIU’s RN to BSN.
Experienced clinical faculty will guide your learning towards systems leadership and efficiencies, continuous care improvement, and Christ-like caring and professional growth. The 14-month program consists of taking just two classes at a time, every eight weeks. It is cohort-based, so you will move through the program with a group of nurses to encourage and support you.
The baccalaureate degree program in nursing at Columbia International University
is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.
Online
January 10, 2025
39
School of Nursing
CCNE, ABHE, SACSCOC
You will be part of a supportive, Christ-centered community where you will be challenged to think and grow as a moral nurse leader.
Integrate theory and scientific knowledge into holistic nursing care planning and patient education.
Deliver culturally competent and safe population care to patients in diverse environments as a valued interprofessional team member.
In addition to the undergraduate core and other related courses, here is a glimpse at a few of the courses you will be taking in this program.
For a full list of courses related to this program, visit the Academic Catalog at one of the options below:
The pathos of various diseases and pharmacologic classifications for treating patients across the lifespan are presented. Genomics as a therapeutic approach is studied. Appropriate monitoring of symptom severity and patient outcomes through the recognition and safe management of subtly changing symptom status is emphasized. A patient education project that incorporates deeper exploration of a selected body system and therapeutics is conducted. Evidence based practices and patient outcomes are analyzed through selected scenarios. Includes didactic instruction.
This course generates the growth mindset needed in the baccalaureate prepared registered nurse to minister through nursing care in multifaceted situations and adaptive environments as ministry. Concepts and theories i.e. servant leadership, loss, ethics, advocacy, funding sources and resources, rural and inner-city community, culture and ethnicity, family structure, disaster response, and mentoring, along with others are interwoven to reflect the complex nature of the nurse-patient (individual, family, community) relationship. The care needs of vulnerable populations i.e. those in long term care, the homeless, and those with substance disuse disorder are a special focus. The lens of a Biblical worldview is incorporated into the analysis. Includes didactic instruction.
Biblical truths regarding authority, power, love, and money are the cornerstone of this course. Strategies for effective communication and the organization and safe interprofessional delivery of quality, ethical care needed by multiple patients with varying levels of acuity are presented. Systems thinking is used to analyze operations and budgetary constraints. Mentoring and precepting skills are developed. Includes didactic instruction.
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