RN-BSN

The mission of Fisher College RN to BSN Program is to educate qualified associate degree and diploma nurses to serve individuals and communities throughout the life cycle in health promotion illness prevention, and health restoration. This Program challenges students to respond to the complex system of health delivery as professional nurses in order to ensure optimum quality and value when providing patient care.

This program will provide students with the opportunity to develop the following competencies:

• Integrate knowledge situated in nursing practice, health related sciences, and humanities when designing and providing patient-centered care.
• Manage care of patients across the lifespan in which the dignity, spirituality, cultural context and rights of the individual, family and community are respected.
• Promote nursing’s obligation to legal, ethical and moral standards in context with changes in health care, health care policy, regulation and financing.
• Communicate in a manner that fosters respectful and collaborative interdisciplinary decision making, thus enhancing patient satisfaction and health outcomes.
• Engage in the scholarship of evidence-based practice and research to support high quality health outcomes and safe nursing care.
• Employ critical thinking, technologic literacy and informatics to communicate, manage information, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
• Practice clinical prevention and population health based on understanding determinants of health and disease prevention.
• Apply basic organizational and systems leadership in pursuit of quality patient care across the health-illness continuum.   
• Value lifelong learning to promote continuous professional development.

Each application file is reviewed on an individual basis and all submitted materials are taken into consideration. Application review for the fall semester begins in May and application review for the spring semester begins in September. Applicants will be notified in writing. Students may be refused admission when they do not meet the standards prescribed for any admissions category or if they submit transcripts found to be fraudulent.  

• A completed application form
• Official transcripts for all colleges attended (copies will not be accepted).
• Prerequisites with an earned grade of C- or higher
• A copy of your current unencumbered RN license in the state in which you practice.
• Current American Heart Association Health Care Provider CPR certification.
• Proof of health insurance.
• Complete health and immunization records. This document is provided by Fisher College.
• Consent form for CORI (Criminal Offender Record Information) and SORI (Sexual Offender Record Information). This form is provided by Fisher College.

The RN-BSN student at Fisher College is afforded the opportunity to complete small practice experiences in healthcare settings. Practice experiences are embedded in baccalaureate nursing programs to prepare students to care for a variety of patients across the continuum. Faculty-directed experiential learning may occur in any setting healthcare is delivered, or health is influenced. The student integrates new practice-related knowledge and skills. The following are examples of some practice settings:

• School nursing
• Visiting nurse agencies
• Public health departments
• Primary care clinics and ambulatory care settings