Finish Your Bachelor's Degree Online
Healthcare employers are seeking BS-qualified nurses. With our flexible online accelerated program, you can prepare yourself to meet this growing demand.
- Finish in as few as three semesters
- Take up to 12 credits at the graduate level
- Instant enrollment upon satisfaction of requirements
Be the Nurse Employers Need
The need for nurses is greater than ever, especially in these historic times. With a bachelor of science degree in nursing from the Lienhard School of Nursing, you can make a difference in your life and the lives of the patients and families you serve.
Take Courses Like…
Core Competencies for Multidimensional Care, a course focusing on the integration of theoretical knowledge and intra/interprofessional collaboration; Leadership and Management, which explores concepts and principles of leadership from the perspective of quality, values, and innovations in nursing and healthcare systems; and Health Assessment and Clinical Reasoning, an immersive experience that will enable you to use evidence-based practice strategies to facilitate process change in nursing or another system.
- NURS 481: Core Competencies for Multidimensional Care
- NURS 485: Leadership and Management
- NURS 487: Health Assessment and Clinical Reasoning
This program is designed for the working professional. Depending on your previous college experience, the program can be completed in as little as 12 months. Courses are offered throughout the year in fall, spring, and summer.
Career Options
Where Graduates are Employed
Our students are hired by the most prestigious hospitals and medical centers in the New York metropolitan area, including Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York-Presbyterian, Montefiore Medical Center, Westchester Medical Center, as well as community health centers and private medical practices.ters and private medical practices
Stats
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Application and Admission Information
Admission to the RN-BS, Nursing Major Online Program is competitive. Minimum requirements include scholastic achievement as evidenced by prior academic performance, graduation from an associate degree or diploma nursing program and current RN licensure in the state they plan to take clinical courses or eligibility to sit for the NCLEX-RN. Students must have a current RN license in the state they are doing their clinical to enroll in any clinical nursing course. All General Education requirements must be completed as a prerequisite to NURS 485 and 486. All transfer students must have a minimum CQPA of 2.75 to enter and progress in the RN/BS program.
To apply, students should have the following:
- Associates degree or nursing diploma
- Minimum 2.75 CGPA
Accreditation
The baccalaureate degree in nursing, master’s degree in nursing, certificates of advanced graduate study (CAGS), and Doctor of Nursing Practice at Pace University are accredited by:
Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
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