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Online Fast Track RN to BSN Curriculum

Curriculum Details

30 total credits required

Florida A&M University’s online Fast Track RN to BSN curriculum includes 10 core courses for a total of 30 core credit hours. All RN to BSN courses can be completed in FAMU’s flexible online environment. You may complete clinical hours at the facility of your choice with faculty guidance and support.

The RN to BSN curriculum is taught by experts in the field and focuses on effective leadership in healthcare settings. The program also introduces students to graduate-level coursework to prepare them to pursue a master’s degree after graduation.

FAMU general education requirements must be met prior to beginning nursing courses. Click here to see all pre-approved courses.

Core Courses

This course will focus on role transitions from registered nurse (RN) to the profession of nursing. Students gain knowledge related to how historical, theoretical, ethical, and legal foundations of nursing practice. Emphasis is placed on the role nurses in the ever-evolving health care space and the need to be lifelong learners.

This course is designed to help students to assess and meet the unique health care needs of variety of vulnerable populations. Students explore community assessment/diagnosis strategies, large-scale program planning and evaluation, impact health care policy and collaborative approaches needed to manage disasters.

This course is designed to help students to assess and meet the unique health care needs of variety of vulnerable populations. Students explore community assessment/diagnosis strategies, large-scale program planning and evaluation, impact health care policy and collaborative approaches needed to manage disasters.

This course is designed to help students understand the relationships among research, evidence-based practice (EPD), and quality care. The research process is examined, research studies are critiqued, the use of evidence as a basic for nursing practice is explored. Students learn where to find evidence, how to judge its strength, and how it is used to develop policy/standards of care and ensure quality care.

Theories and concepts related to application of technology in nursing practice and patient care. The focus will be on understanding nursing informatics, specifically computer application skills, interdisciplinary communication, systems design and analysis, related ethical and social issues, the influence on clients/patients.

The course will focus on nursing role in developing and impacting healthcare policy. Students will investigate and explore policy design, implementation and evaluation. The importance on data and communication skills in policy creation and evaluation. Students will learn to analyze state, national, global and professional regulatory health policies influencing contemporary nursing practice.

This course explores the concepts of leadership and management, and understand how policies, system-wide thinking, and effective team functioning are essential for quality care. It focuses on skills needed to successful authentic and transformational leaders in healthcare with an emphasis on responsibility, stewardship, managing and develop people; collaboration on interdisciplinary teams, risk prevention; and ensuring quality care and advance the profession.

Death and dying are part of human existence. Nurses are care providers who assist diverse clients at all stages of life from conception to the end-of-life. This course will allow student to explore end-of-life stages and issues; care of dying patients, grief support for patients and their loved ones, and related interdisciplinary care. Additionally, students will assess and process their personal beliefs and about end-of-life care and their role as nursing is providing care.

This is the final course in the RN-BSN program. This course synthesizes the content and skills learned throughout the RN-BSN program.

Electives

This course will teach learners the concepts of educating clients of diverse backgrounds and in various stages of development. It will emphasize the development of skills to assess clients learning needs, teach and evaluate barriers behavioral changes and learning outcomes. Students will gain experience in evaluating and design patient educational materials and educational interventions. The course highlights the differences between pedagogy and andragogy, along with the relevance to teaching approaches.

This course offers the student an opportunity to discuss and analyze the evolution of health policies in the united states. Topics include the relationship between health policies, economics of health care and health promotion of diverse groups. Students critically analyze state, national, global and professional regulatory health policies influencing contemporary nursing practice, in general and advanced practice nursing in particular.

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Focus on health promotion and disease prevention trends across the adult lifespan for all populations groups.

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