Online RN to BSN Program*

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, disease management 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.

Students may take the courses NU300 and NU310 prior to taking the NCLEX-RN exam

In Fisher’s accelerated RN to BSN program, you develop competencies to:

• Integrate knowledge in nursing practice, health-related sciences, and humanities when designing and providing patient-centered care.
• Manage care of patients across the lifespan that respects the dignity, spirituality, cultural context, and rights of the individual, family, and community.
• Promote nursing’s obligation to legal, ethical, and moral standards in context with changes in healthcare, healthcare 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, technological literacy, and informatics to communicate, manage information, mitigate errors, and support decision-making.
• Practice clinical prevention and population health based on understanding the 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.