The Solution for Working Registered Nurses
The RN to BSN Program is developed for the associate degree or diploma RN who desires to obtain a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree with convenience and flexibility.
Convenience
100% of courses are offered online. Complete assignments from anywhere with an internet connection. Complete course work around your individual schedule.
Flexibility
Courses are structured to allow students the flexibility to complete the program as quickly or slowly as they desire. The online program can be completed in as little as 12 months. Students work with an advisor to develop a plan of study which meets their individual needs. Plans can be changed at any time, as student needs change.
Mission
The Craigmiles School of Nursing offers programs that are rooted in the University Core Values: Biblical Worldview, Educational Relevance, Community Mindset, Transformational Leadership, and Generational Impact for effectively equipping nursing students and graduates for ministry and service within homes, workplace settings, church settings, within their profession, and within surrounding communities.
The Craigmiles School of Nursing offers programs that strive to achieve excellence in nursing education by maintaining high academic standards in a distinctively Christian environment. Such an environment encourages the highest development of the student intellectually, physically, socially, and spiritually.
Purposes
Craigmiles School of Nursing purpose are to:
- Implement Biblical based, services-focused nursing programs through in-seat, online, or blended-learning approaches to course design.
- Prepare graduates for entry-level beginning practical nursing (PN) and/or professional nursing (RN) equipped with the skills and abilities required of nurse generalists.
- Support graduates as they prepare for future ministry and service opportunities which they desire to pursue.
- Equip graduates for life-long learning, professional growth, and graduate studies
- Partner with the Hannibal-LaGrange academic community to contribute to the growth and on-going development of the University.
- Provide supportive nursing services within the surrounding local communities and around the world through service-learning opportunities.
Course Structure
- Course work is 100% online. No need to come to campus.
- 8 week courses
- Students can begin classes during any 8 week session (January, March, June, August, October)
- Students choose how many courses they want to take at a time.
- Students receive credit for an active RN license
RN-to-BSN Program Outcomes
For the RN-to BSN student the following competencies are threaded throughout each course. The competencies are guided by the curricular framework, the Missouri of Scope of Practice for, and professional standards for Registered Nurses.
Core Value: Educational Relevance
- Apply leadership principles to coordinate nursing care and ministry services to promote health and prevent disease.
- Develop healthcare strategies for addressing unmet healthcare needs, complex problems, obstacles, and challenges when providing nursing care and ministry services.
- Adopt proficient nursing practices to ensure safe, and positive outcomes of care.
Core Value: Transformational Leadership
- Use information from evidence-based research findings and professional standards for determining best practices in providing nursing care and ministry services.
- Assume appropriate leadership roles and collaborative practice roles in providing nursing care and ministry services.
Core Value: Community Mindset
- Apply leadership principles in collaborating with other communities of interest, such
as local and extended church organizations, healthcare organizations, and community
support agencies to provide professional nursing care and ministry services.
Core Value: Generational Impact
- Provide professional patient-centered nursing care and ministry services to humankind: Individuals, groups, families, communities, and populations; the underserved, poor, and disadvantaged; Individuals across the lifespan; and diverse
populations.
Core Value: Biblical Worldview
- Develop new approaches to providing professional nursing care and ministry services that are rooted in a biblically based Christian worldview.
- Recognize individual and professional accountability to Christ, the public, the nursing profession, and healthcare employers for providing professional nursing care that is efficient, effective equitable, evidence-based, patient-centered, timely, and safe.
RN-to-BSN Admission, and Progression Policy
Accreditation
The baccalaureate degree program in nursing at Hannibal-LaGrange University is by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (http://www.ccneaccreditation.org).
For more information, you can contact nursing@hlg.edu.