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Finish in as little as 12 months
Multiple start dates every semester
Study at home, not alone

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Why RN to BS at Boise State?

Affordable tuition

The average cost to complete the entire program is between $12-13,000. Plus, there is no out-of-state tuition!

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Work and study from your hometown! Engage in experiential learning and clinical projects in your own community under the mentorship of our faculty. Learn more about curriculum

Dual Enrollment

Start your bachelors while you are completing your RN program and finish in as little as 1 semester after passing NCLEX (the average is 2-3 semesters for working RNs).

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Flexible schedule

Our program accommodates working nurses so you can create a plan for completion based on your own work, family and personal commitments. Courses taken prior to admission do not age out, so you can complete the program at your own pace.

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Program Learning Outcomes

Communication (Oral and Written)

Evaluate and revise effective and respectful communication strategies (written, verbal, electronic, and other appropriate technologies).
Evaluate the effectiveness of communication skills with clients, groups and organizations, while maintaining appropriate confidentiality of information.
Use information systems effectively to manage and evaluate care for diverse clients, families, groups, and communities.

Clinical Reasoning and Critical Inquiry

Synthesize theoretical and evidence-based knowledge from the sciences, humanities, and nursing when planning and/or providing care in collaboration with individuals, families, groups, and communities.
Apply clinical reasoning and critical inquiry, as a generalist, when planning and/or providing care to diverse individuals, families, groups, and communities across the lifespan, in a variety of community-based and institutional settings.
Synthesize thoughtful, focused reflection and reasoned judgment in the delivery and evaluation of nursing care, to improve nursing outcomes and nursing practice.

Experiential Learning

Analyze the roles healthcare plays in society.
Participate actively in effective relationships with diverse clients, interprofessional teams, community agencies, and other stakeholders.
Serve as a health educator for the purpose of developing attitudes, knowledge, skills, and behaviors to promote, protect, and restore health and assist the client in making informed health care choices.
Institute activities to prepare for licensure and professional practice.

Professionalism and Leadership

Manage nursing care in collaboration with clients and an Interprofessional team through coordination, delegation, consultation and referral.
Model the professional nursing role based on acceptable standards of practice, including accountability for one’s personal and professional behaviors and development.
Analyze the financial, legal and ethical implications of professional decisions involving individuals, groups, communities, and organizations.
Express informed positions on professional issues and trends, opportunities for advocacy, and strategies for social and political action for health and wellbeing.
Explain the leadership role of nurses in addressing global health issues.
Participate in practice settings, professional organizations, communities and government to improve nursing practice, nursing education, client care and the health care delivery system.

Global World View

Analyze the role of nursing in global health, and the effects of global health issues on nursing practice.
Demonstrate cultural competence when providing care for diverse individuals, families, groups and communities.
Advocate for social justice, including commitment to the health of vulnerable populations and the elimination of health disparities.