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Nursing, RN-BSN

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering (nsme)

Department of Nursing

Department Chair: Debra Wilson

Office: Romberg Nursing Education Center, 100

Phone: (661) 654-2505

Email: nursing@csub.edu

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Program Description

The Department of Nursing offers a baccalaureate program built upon a foundation of science and liberal education that prepares graduates as professional nurses for positions in hospitals and community agencies. All graduates from the program are recommended for certification as public health nurses in the State of California. This program also prepares students for entrance into graduate programs in Nursing.

The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree program at California State University, Bakersfield is approved by the

California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN)
PO Box 944210
Sacramento, CA 94244-2100
916-322-3350. 

The BSN degree program is accredited by the

Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
655 K Street NW, Suite 750
Washington, DC 20001
202-887-6791.

The nursing curriculum is organized according to the four universal concepts of nursing which include the client, the environment, health, and the nurse. The client is defined as individuals, families, groups, communities, and diverse populations across the lifespan and the continuum of health care environments. Students study health, health problems and human responses that occur as a result of life processes. Emphasis is placed on the nursing process as a systematic method of assisting clients to attain, regain and maintain maximum functional health status. Nursing intervention with clients is based on the use of the nursing process with a focus on the various roles of the nurse including educator, clinician, leader, and researcher.

Baccalaureate Program Goals and Objectives

The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program is designed to support the achievement of the following goals:

  1. BSN graduates will be prepared to function in the four professional nurse roles of clinician, researcher, leader, and educator.
  2. BSN graduates will be prepared for graduate study and value lifelong learning to support excellence in nursing practice.
  3. Traditional BSN graduates will successfully complete the RN licensure examination (NCLEX).

The program objectives are to prepare students for graduation who:

  1. Integrate, translate, and apply the knowledge and methods of liberal arts, natural sciences, and social sciences as a foundation for professional nursing practice thereby forming the basis for clinical judgment.
  2. Engage in individualized, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate holistic person/family centered care across the
    lifespan and the continuum of
    healthcare environments.
  3. Practice population-focused nursing
    care across the continuum from public health prevention to disease management, utilizing collaborative activities with both traditional and non-traditional partnerships. Collaborate with communities, public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities, and others for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes.
  4. Synthesize, integrate, apply, and disseminate nursing knowledge and evidence-based practices to improve health outcomes and transform health care systems.
  5. Apply established and emerging principles of quality and safety to improve care delivery by minimizing risk of harm to patients, providers, and environments through system effectiveness and individual performance.
  6. Collaborate and communicate effectively across professions involving care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.
  7. Apply knowledge of complex health systems to coordinate resources in providing safe, quality and equitable care to diverse populations encompassing innovative and evidenced-based practices.
  8. Utilize information and communication technologies including informatics to gather data that will drive decision making and support professionals to improve the delivery of safe, high-quality, efficient healthcare services in accordance with best practices as well as professional and regulatory standards.
  9. Cultivate and demonstrate sustainable professional nursing identity including accountability, ethical values of altruism, autonomy, dignity, integrity, inclusivity and social justice as fundamental to the discipline of nursing.
  10. Demonstrate personal and professional development through self-reflection by fostering personal health, resilience, well-being, lifelong learning to support the acquisition of nursing expertise and assertion of leadership.

In summary, the professional baccalaureate program in nursing is based on the belief that the graduate is a liberally educated, self-directed person who has beginning competency in delivering nursing care and is a responsible citizen.

RN to BSN Program

The RN to BSN Program provides Registered Nurses who graduated with an Associate Degree or Diploma in nursing the opportunity to complete the requirements for a BSN degree. Graduates are eligible for the California Public Health Nurse Certification and are prepared to progress into a master’s degree program.