NUR 460B Community and Public Health Nursing 3

NUR 465BP Professional Nursing Internship 3

NUR 461B Professional Role 4: Leadership & Professional Engagement 2

NUR 462B Intensive Review & Assessment 2

***** Elective 3

13 credit hours

€ ART 130, MUS 130, THE 130, ENG 211

TOTAL 122 credit hours

∑ASL 171, ASL, 172 (or); FRE 102, FRE 102 (or); SPA 101, SPA 102 (or); SPA 103, SPA 104 Adopted 01/16; revised 03/18

The RN-B.S.N. option is designed to offer registered nurses the opportunity to build on their nursing knowledge and experience by earning a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Students in the RN-B.S.N. option take courses that focus on professionalism and patient safety, research, improvement of health systems, leadership, information technology, and community and public health. The RN-B.S.N. option allows registered nurses to earn a B.S.N. degree via flexible online education that is delivered primarily asynchronously with limited synchronous face-to-face assemblies for the gerontology and public health practicum experiences as well as the capstone seminar.

The RN-B.S.N. program option requires 33 semester hours of major study. The prospective RN-B.S.N. student must hold an active, unencumbered registered nursing license in their state of residence and have been conferred an Associate Degree or Diploma in Nursing from a nationally accredited nursing program. Prospective students must complete the prerequisite course work before beginning work.

required for the major in nursing. The RN-B.S.N. plan of study provides a semester-by-semester conceptualization of the required coursework involved.

Students interested in applying for admission to the RN-B.S.N. option may fulfill the degree requirements for the entire program at Kentucky State University through course offerings in the various Colleges. A student may also transfer courses from an institution that offers comparable prerequisite or non-major courses that are approved by Kentucky State University and the School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Once a student is admitted to the RN-B.S.N. option major, the student must complete all degree requirements within five (5) years from admission into the major.