Earn your Bachelor of Science in nursing (BSN) in 4 years from one of the a premier nursing schools in Nebraska.
Follow your passion to one of the best nursing schools in Nebraska.
Nursing is one of the most versatile and rewarding careers in healthcare today. And even when employment is down in other fields, there will always be a need for skilled nurses. The requirements for becoming a nurse are changing because healthcare in the United States is changing. Many of the better health systems now require Registered Nurses (RNs) to have a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing (BSN).
Nurses today need to add specialized skills and expertise such as critical thinking, change management expertise and community-based healthcare experience. Such attributes and experience help improve healthcare effectiveness and patient outcomes. That's where NMC comes in. Our BSN graduates are prepared to assume nursing careers not just as qualified nurses but also as healthcare leaders.
BSN Program Info
- This Bachelor of Science in Nursing is a CCNE-accredited, 4-year program.
- The curriculum centers on community-based education, with an emphasis on caring and holistic healthcare.
- Students learn to focus on the community of people being served wherever their needs are, whether it's in acute-care settings (hospitals), long-term care settings (nursing homes), clinics or in the community.
- Students learn to integrate the concepts of health promotion, self-care, prevention, collaboration and continuity of care with clinical and assessment skills - all within the context of culture and community.
- Our graduates have more than just technical skills - we are Educated Citizens. This solid foundation prepares our graduates to create and lead change in the world around them.
- Clinical experience begins in the first year, to build confidence in skills and enable students to apply classroom theory to a variety of situations.
More Program Details
Nurse Salary and Job Outlook
Nursing salaries in the United States vary by specialty and level of experience. The Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates the median salary in 2010 for Registered Nurses in the United States was $64,690 per year, with a faster than average projected job growth until 2020 of 26 percent.
Professional Organizations
Program Accreditation
This baccalaureate degree in nursing at Nebraska Methodist College is accredited by the Commission of Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).
One Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 530
Washington, DC 20036-1120
Phone: 202-887-6791
Admissions
Application Deadlines:
August 30, 2013; October 11, 2013 |
Program Start Date: Spring 2014
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Prospective students may apply anytime and are accepted from deadlines throughout the year. Applications will be reviewed upon receipt and students will be notified of their admission by letter or phone.
BSN Program Admissions Criteria
Applicants are evaluated on the basis of the following criteria:
- Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5
- High school record
- ACT composite of 20 or above, or SAT critical reading and mathematics scores of 950, if within 2 years of high school graduation
- College record
- Math and Science courses, recommended courses: Algebra, Biology, Chemistry and Anatomy & Physiology
- Fulfillment of technical standards
BSN Program Application Process
To be considered for admission the following items must be submitted to the Admissions Office:
For More Information Contact:
Kayla Johnston
Admissions Coordinator
(402) 354-7204
Kayla.Johnston@methodistcollege.edu
Tuition & Fees
Attending nursing school at Nebraska Methodist College represents a major investment in your future. For most students, attending college takes planning and sacrifice. NMC recognizes that and is committed to helping you find every avenue to finance your education. View the Tuition by Program & Degree page for a comprehensive list of all fees.
| Tuition per credit hour: $528 |
First Time Freshmen:
Financial Assistance
At NMC we offer financial aid to our students, and help you understand what financial resources are available to you. View our Financial Assistance page to learn about the Financial Assistance process, policies and options.
Scholarships
Nebraska Methodist College scholarships consist of funds generously provided by the Methodist Hospital Foundation to assist our students. View our Scholarships page to learn more.
The BSN Program is a 4-year all inclusive program. The curriculum is designed for students to complete their General Education courses alongside the 7 required semesters of Nursing courses. All students are required to complete specific coursework. This list should only be used as a curriculum guide. Course listings and required curriculum are subject to change.
Included within this list is the Educated Citizen Core Curriculum. All students seeking to complete an undergraduate degree at Nebraska Methodist College must complete this set of Arts & Sciences requirements. As an educated citizen, NMC graduates are competent practitioners and respond productively to the complex dynamics of the world, utilizing a diversity of disciplines and perspectives.
First Year - First Semester
This course provides instruction and practice in writing, with emphasis on the recursive processes of generating, drafting, revising and editing. Students develop skills in producing and evaluating written communications in private and public contexts.
This course is designed to merge science with a broad human perspective and to engage both the mind and the heart. It sets forth the principles and processes of psychology and is sensitive to student‘s needs and interests. It helps students gain insight into the important phenomena in everyday life, to feel a sense of wonder about seemingly ordinary human processes and to see how psychology addresses issues that cross disciplines.
This course is an overview of general inorganic/organic and biochemistry with an emphasis on relationship to biological sciences. Includes a laboratory.
This course will introduce the students to basic information required for further study and understanding of Anatomy and Physiology, which includes terminology, basic principles of chemistry, physics, embryology and histology. The basic structure and function of the integumentary, the nervous the skeletal, and the muscular systems are emphasized in this course.
There is a strong relationship between thinking clearly and expressing thoughts in formal writing and public speaking. Using the skills of logic and critical thinking, students will examine ideas, analyze and evaluate the arguments of others, and advocate for their own ideas. Students will be introduced to the NMC Portfolio process.
- Credits: 3.0
- Prerequisites: HUM 150 is to be taken in the first semester
First Year - Second Semester
This introductory course provides a foundation for community-based nursing. Students examine the fundamental concepts and skills used in the delivery of professional nursing care with culturally diverse adult clients. Environmental considerations and the basic concepts of community, partnerships and visits with clients in various settings are introduced. The wellness continuum is expanded and professionalism in nursing, interpersonal communication, change, nursing process, critical thinking and caring are addressed.
- Credits: 2.5
- Prerequisites: SCI 226, SCI 280, SSC 101, HU 150, COM 230/245 Co-requisites: NRS 100C
Access to healthcare is greatly affected by one's command of language. Students in this course engage in the exploration of language and culture then apply these concepts to the healthcare environment through service-learning and community engagement. Students develop practical communication skills that enable effective cross-cultural work with health professionals and clients with backgrounds different from their own.
The structure and function of the special senses, along with the endocrine, circulatory, lymphatic, respiratory, digestive, urinary and reproductive systems are stressed in this course. Laboratory experience will include cadaver study.
- Credits: 4.0
- Prerequisites: SCI 225
This course is a study of the principles and application of microorganisms and their relationship to various disease processes. Includes a laboratory.
- Credits: 3.0
- Prerequisites: SCI 103
Students use artistic modes of inquiry to develop awareness of the diversity of human feeling and experience. Students use critical thinking as they respond orally and in writing to original artifacts of human expression, including works of art, fiction, poetry, drama, and music.
- Credits: 3.0
- Prerequisites: Determined by major
Second Year - First Semester
This course begins with a major focus on cellular functions and pathology, including inflammation, infection, immune response, metabolism and fluid disequilibrium. These concepts serve as the foundation for the course as alterations in various bodily functions are examined. Alterations in body fluid and electrolyte homeostasis; fluid acid-base balance; genetic disorders, carcinogenesis, nematologic, gastrointestinal, urinary, respiratory, cardiac, endocrine, neurological, musculoskeletal functions are emphasized.
- Credits: 3.0
- Prerequisites: SCI 103, SCI 225, SCI 226, SCI 280
Determined by major The Life-Span perspective involves several basic contentions: development is life-long, multidimensional, multi-directional, plastic, historically embedded, multi-disciplinary and contextual. Three imperative developmental issues are explored: maturation and experience, continuity and discontinuity and stability and change. Students study how humans develop and how they become who they are.
This course focuses on nursing care using a culturally sensitive framework with adult clients along the continuum of well being. Students employ caring and professional communication to promote change. Critical thinking and the nursing process are used in collaborative relationships with clients and community partners. Students are introduced to the economic impact on health. The concepts of legal/ethical accountability and prioritization are applied to professional community-based nursing practice.
- Credits: 4.0
- Prerequisites: All year-one courses except HUM_: World of Ideas Pre-/Corequisites: SCI 315, SSC 215 Corequisites: NRS 202/202L
The clinical practicum offers students opportunities to provide nursing care with adult clients to promote and maintain health. Experiences focus on providing students beginning nursing-process skills for the delivery of care with a community-based perspective. Students incorporate interpersonal communication techniques while interacting with adult clients, members of the health care team and community partners.
- Credits: 3.0
- Prerequisites: Corequisites: NRS 220
This course familiarizes students with normal and abnormal health assessment of clients across the life span. The course utilizes Gordon‘s structural framework as the primary means to organize assessment data and prioritizing nursing diagnoses. Students will identify and utilize the principles of diagnostic reasoning and critical thinking to practice the application of health assessment findings to nursing practice. Students will apply the skills of interview, inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation throughout the course as guided by evidence-based practice (EBP). Students will analyze data collected during a complete health assessment. The health assessment data collected consists of a complete health history and physical assessment including laboratory values, the client‘s level of wellness, environment, health practices and goals, and psychosocial (including domestic violence), mental, nutritional and transcultural considerations. The student will work to correlate the health assessment data while differentiating the major trends in growth and development and the attainment of developmental milestones comparing the differences of the well, acutely ill, and chronically ill clients across the lifespan.
Second Year - Second Semester
This course focuses on developing partnerships with women and childbearing families to promote and maintain health. Selected changes in the family and in the health of women are addressed. New knowledge and skills build on the frameworks of caring and community-based nursing care. Selected nursing assessment skills are introduced and applied. Use of the nursing process enhances critical-thinking skills as needs of women and childbearing families are explored. Beginning nursing leadership concepts are explored. Students identify the influence of economics on the health and well being of women and childbearing families.
- Credits: 3.5
- Prerequisites: All year-one courses and NRS 220/ 220C, SCI 315 Pre/Corequisites: SCI 240, HU ____:World of Ideas, SSC 235, SCI 265 Corequisites: NRS 240C, NRS 245
The clinical experience offers students the opportunity to collaborate with women and childbearing families in their health care. Students develop partnerships through professional communication, dialogue and collaboration, critical thinking and shared learning. The nursing processand concepts of public health science, caring, professionalism and change are incorporated while working with clients. Students demonstrate selected nursing assessment skills while providing safe effective care within guidelines and policies.
- Credits: 2.5
- Prerequisites: Corequisites: NRS 240
This course is designed to introduce students to pharmacological principles of prescription and over the counter (OTC) medications. The various drug classifications and general characteristics of drugs within a class are examined. The course also focuses on analysis and understanding of the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, side effects, adverse reactions and drug - drug and food - drug interactions of prototype and commonly used drugs within each class.
- Credits: 3.0
- Prerequisites: SCI 103, SCI 225, SCI 226 Prerequisite/Co-requisite: SCI 315
This course in nutrition is designed for students to gain knowledge of the basic elements of nutrition and nutritional needs in all age groups, meal planning, food economics and client teaching. Consideration of the cultural and psychological influence of nutrition emphasizes the psychosocial components of humans and adequate nutrition maintenance for health. Students learn the role of good nutrition and how it applies to self, family, client and the community. It will provide students with basic knowledge, to enable students to gain an understanding of the role which nutrition plays in the health and well being of an individual.
- Credits: 3.0
- Prerequisites: SCI 103
This course introduces public health concepts and principles. Emphasis is on the core functions of public health: assessment, policy development and assurance. The course content provides an overview of the history and organization of public health and public health issues at the local, state, national and global levels.
- Credits: 1.0
- Prerequisites: Corequisites: NRS 240
This course explores the ways in which human beings make and remake the meaning of their social world through the production of culture. It employs sociological methods to explore the construction of the dominant, white subculture in the United States. The same methodologies are employed to examine the construction of subcultures in the United States, including those based on race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation.
Third Year - First Semester
Students begin to integrate a broad range of concepts related to children and adults in the community. Students build on family concepts and incorporate growth and development into a framework for community-based nursing care across the life span. Content focuses on health promotion, illness prevention, maintenance and management of acute and chronic health problems. The differences in communication with clients across the life span are examined. The course facilitates professional role development, critical thinking and the use of humanistic/scientific principles and research as the basis of culturally competent care.
- Credits: 5.0
- Prerequisites: All year-one and -two courses Pre/Corequisites: SS 360 Corequisites: COM 320
Student's choice of non-clinical elective
The clinical practicum promotes integration of nursing process, including prioritization, into community-based care with children and adults. Caring, professional communication, dialogue and advocacy are used to build partnerships with families. Health care and economic policies and ethical decision-making are examined. Students incorporate beginning management and leadership principles and information from research to further develop professional roles.
- Credits: 4.0
- Prerequisites: Corequisites: NRS 340
This course applies leadership and management theories to the changing environment of healthcare. Students synthesize their knowledge of such topics as emotional intelligence, assertiveness, conflict management, gender dynamics, feedback delivery and systems theory in advanced writing and speaking projects. The NMC portfolio is integrated throughout this course.
- Credits: 3.0
- Prerequisites: Determined by major
This course is designed to introduce students to the methods used in organizing, summarizing, analyzing and interpreting quantitative information. Emphasis is placed on the application of statistical methods and on the interpretation of statistically significant data. Specific techniques for measuring the degree of relationship between variables encountered in research are presented. The course is limited to research designs involving no more than two variables.
- Credits: 3.0
- Prerequisites: Determined by major
Third Year - Second Semester
The course incorporates concepts and principles of psychiatric mental health nursing, community health nursing and public health science that promote holistic health of diverse vulnerable communities. As students broaden self-awareness and understanding of human beings, major foci are on therapeutic communication, group process and advocacy for individuals, families, aggregates and communities. Students use enhanced critical-thinking skills and a caring approach to apply nursing process to problems with multiple causes. Students value teaching/learning principles, motivation, risk reduction and health promotion as integral to achieving desired outcomes. Theory and research related to the promotion of mental health, prevention and management of acute/chronic mental illness and population-based needs are explored. The roles of the nurse in community-based care, which include interdisciplinary collaboration, advocacy for social justice and professional leadership, are examined.
- Credits: 4.0
- Prerequisites: All year-one and -two courses, NRS 340, SSC 360 Pre/Corequisites: SS 370, HU 210, COM 320 Corequisites: NRS 345, NRS 350C
The clinical practicum facilitates the synthesis of public health principles and physical and mental health concepts/interventions with diverse populations. This experience promotes the application of theory and skills in community-based health settings for acute and chronic mental illnesses. Nursing process is applied to a variety of population-based needs. Wide-ranging skills include the use of personal and community resources and collaborative problem solving leading to innovative solutions and desired outcomes. The roles of the nurse in community-based care are assumed. These roles include interdisciplinary collaborator, advocate, casefinder/manager, counselor, referral and change agent.
- Credits: 5.0
- Prerequisites: NRS 345, NRS 350
This course is designed to assist the student in developing an understanding of the research process in qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods designs. The student learns to selectively apply the steps of research and to critically analyze research studies culminating in formal, oral and written projects.
- Credits: 3.0
- Prerequisites: Determined by major
Introduction to Ethics introduces students to theories and practices of individual, communal and societal obligations. Moral inquiry in the course proceeds from a philosophical basis.
- Credits: 3.0
- Prerequisites: Determined by major
This course builds upon public health core concepts and principles introduced in Public Health Science I. Content focuses on epidemiology and special needs of aggregates at risk. Current and changing health care are critically analyzed in relation to local, state, national and global conditions and policies.
- Credits: 2.0
- Prerequisites: Corequisite: NRS 350 (traditional); NRS 340 (ACE)
Fourth Year - First Semester
In this non-clinical course, students analyze current trends and issues within the profession of nursing. Students critically examine health care issues that impact a changing global community. Recommendations and solutions for practice are evaluated. Professional activism is explored. Health care policy and legal/ethical concerns are scrutinized within the framework of global nursing practice.
- Credits: 3.0
- Prerequisites: All year-one, -two and -three courses, COM 320 Corequisites: NRS 450
This course focuses on the application of theory when caring for complex, high-risk clients across the life span. Students build upon research findings and previous knowledge to further develop critical thinking skills through the advanced nursing concepts presented in the course. Students examine the roles of professional caregiver, teacher and manager with families in an interdependent world. Students expand strategies for dialogue, collaboration and advocacy within an increasingly complex global health care environment.
- Credits: 4.0
- Prerequisites: All year-one, -two and -three courses Pre/Corequisites: NRS___: Non-Clinical Nursing Elective, HU ___ World of Ideas (Completion of 2 out of 3 World of Ideas Courses) Corequisites: NRS 445
This clinical practicum provides opportunities for students to apply culturally diverse, holistic care with high-risk families across the life span. In the delivery of nursing care, students provide collaborative, complex care with families along the continuum of well being. When providing care in the changing health care environment, students promote autonomy, altruism, human dignity, integrity and social justice.
- Credits: 5.0
- Prerequisites: Corequisites: NRS 450
Students critically analyze the impact of history on contemporary society. Historical methods of inquiry inform students' perspectives on societal and institutional development.
- Credits: 3.0
- Prerequisites: Determined by major
Fourth Year - Second Semester
This course focuses on the synthesis of humanistic/scientific principles and research in the care of the older adult with complex needs. Students use critical thinking skills to examine professional nursing care in the areas of health promotion, risk reduction, disease prevention, illness/disease management, and rehabilitation in the changing environments of the older adult. Holistic concepts including spirituality, sexuality, end-of-life and economics are expanded. The roles of the professional nurse in meeting the mutually identified needs of the older adult in the community are evaluated.
- Credits: 1.5
- Prerequisites: All year-one, -two, -three courses and NRS 445, NRS 450 Pre/Corequisite: HU_____: World of Ideas Corequisites: NRS 462C, SSC 465
The clinical practicum facilitates student implementation of the nursing process in the care of the older adult with complex needs. Dialogue and collaborative partnerships with clients and health care providers assist students to assume professional roles in complex health care with older adults. Ethical/legal accountability and responsibility are practiced through the roles of facilitator, collaborator, teacher, advocate, change agent, case manager, as well as care provider.
- Credits: 1.5
- Prerequisites: Corequisites: NRS 462
Students integrate concepts of the professional role into a personal philosophy of nursing. Using a problem-based learning approach, students critically evaluate research and refine decision-making skills. Leadership/management and legal/ethical principles provide a framework for classroom activities.
- Credits: 1.0
- Prerequisites: All year-one, -two, -three courses and NRS 460 Pre/Corequisites: HU__: World of Ideas Corequisites: NRS 470P, SSC 465
Students experience the role of the practicing nurse within a community-based learning environment. Students are assigned a RN preceptor to promote the development of confidence and competence in applying the skills and knowledge expected from a novice. Through the synthesis of prior knowledge, students apply management and communication skills to foster interdisciplinary collaboration. Students demonstrate responsibility and legal/ethical accountability in their professional role as caregiver, teacher and manager of client care.
- Credits: 2.0
- Prerequisites: Corequisites: NRS 470
Students use the modes of inquiry unique to philosophy, religion, ecology, and anthropology to develop sensitivity to life's interconnections. Selected fields of study provide unique lenses through which to study inner connections among mind, body, and spirit, as well as connections between oneself and a world of ideas, perspectives, and both living and non-living things.
- Credits: 3.0
- Prerequisites: Determined by major
This course is based in the social sciences and is designed to assist students in the integration of their roles as healthcare professionals and educated citizens. The focus of the class is on deepening students’ understanding of and facility with social and political systems that impact the health and wellbeing of the community. Students demonstrate their preparation to act as educated citizens through the presentation of their portfolio within the context of this capstone course.
Faculty
Our nursing faculty is highly experienced and credentialed in their own fields, giving you constant real-world insight you can use. While any instructor can recite from a textbook, ours go a step further and draw from vast personal experience at a premier nursing school in Nebraska. Instructors here care as deeply about their students as they do the subject matter and it shows.
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