The BSN program is for high-ability, achievement-oriented students and provides a challenging learning environment with innovative approaches to faculty-student relationships and scholarly learning experiences. Nursing courses may include active learning strategies, lectures, online activities, seminars, laboratories, simulation and practicum experiences. Students learn client care in a variety of settings that may include hospitals, clinics, homes, long-term care facilities, and other health care settings throughout the community. Students provide care to clients with diverse health care problems in real-life situations.
At the completion of the program, students will:
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Exemplify generative leadership and commitment to the provision of high quality, safe, ethical, evidence-based practice that is holistic, culturally sensitive and person-centered
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Value scholarship and engage in the creation of scholarly products by collaborating effectively within nursing and interprofessional teams
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Transform personal and professional reflections, knowledge, skills, and attitudes into purposeful action to improve health
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Integrate knowledge of emerging technologies and healthcare systems with data and information in order to inform decision making in professional nursing practice
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Epitomize values of the nursing profession that include life-long learning and global citizenship
Pre-Licensure Competencies
The University of Minnesota School of Nursing has identified 12 competencies that students will achieve on successful completion of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program. These competencies align with the Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice (AACN, 2008). Competencies guide the curriculum and support the expected educational outcomes for BSN students. In addition there are overarching statements that faculty believe are crucial to the development of lifelong learners in nursing. The statements are woven through the competencies and curriculum providing the conditions in which the discipline of nursing is practiced. Find more information including detailed descriptions of the Pre-Licensure Competencies on the School of Nursing website.
In 2021, AACN released a new version of the Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education, you can read more on the AACN website. The School of Nursing will be updating the BSN curriculum over the next several years for alignment with these new Essentials. Undergraduate students at the University are held to degree requirements reflecting the curriculum in place at the time of enrollment.