The Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing is a four-year program that offers a broad foundation in liberal arts and science and an extensive range of nursing courses. Graduates are eligible to take the national examination for licensure (NCLEX) as registered nurses.
A four-year education helps nurses navigate the increasingly complex medical field; in its Future of Nursing Report, the Institute of Medicine recommends that 80 percent of all nurses have, at minimum, a baccalaureate degree by 2020. Hospitals applying for Magnet status employ a larger proportion of nurses with a B.S. degree than without.
Many institutions also have higher pay grades for bachelor’s prepared nurses. A four-year degree also is the foundation for the advanced education needed to become a nurse educator, nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, nurse midwife, nurse anesthetist, nurse administrator, or nurse researcher. Total Credits Required: Semester Credit Hours 120.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s growth outlook for RN jobs by the year 2024 is more than double the growth rate for all occupations. It’s why many are considering a career – or a career change – in nursing. And its why HU Nursing created the Accelerated Option Bachelor of Science in Nursing.This program is uniquely designed for people who hold a bachelor’s degree in another field.
The Accelerated Option of Bachelor of Science in Nursing is comprised of three (3) semesters of full-time coursework, beginning with an intensive mini semester of nursing fundamentals immediately before the start of the program. The student may transfer up to 60-semester undergraduate credit. Total Credits Required: Semester Credit Hours 120.
For RNs ready to leap forward in their careers, a bachelor’s degree in nursing can help boost your marketability, expand your skills, and increase your value to your employers. HU Online’s RN to BSN program is specifically designed for registered nurses (RNs) who wish to complete a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree.
Our bachelor’s program continues your nursing education with coursework that is relevant to your work experience, including health, wellness, and care across cultures, nursing leadership in global healthcare, and community health. You will become a more accomplished nurse with a strong foundation in evidence-based nursing practices. The student may transfer up to 75 semester undergraduate credit.Total Credits Required: Semester Credit Hours 120.
Nurses work in a variety of acute and long-term care settings, including trauma centers, community hospitals, home health agencies, rehabilitation centers, long-term care facilities, hospice agencies, schools, industrial and organizational settings, and the military. Hospitals preparing for Magnet status employ a larger proportion of nurses with a B.S.N. degree.
Some institutions also have higher pay grades for bachelors-prepared nurses. The nursing profession encompasses many opportunities for a lifelong and rewarding career, including management opportunities, clinical specialty positions, and career ladder opportunities. Bachelors-prepared nurses can also pursue advanced degrees in nursing for roles such as nurse educators, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse midwives, nurse anesthetists, nurse administrators, and nurse researchers.
Nursing has a healthy job outlook—the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts the number of jobs will rise 16 percent through 2024, much faster than the average growth rate for all occupations.
Hebrew University has a comprehensive support system that will help you to identify and achieve your goals for the college classroom and beyond. Meet with your academic adviser often and take advantage of the services offered by the Academic and Career Planning Center, beginning in your first semester.
Nursing Career Resources
Learn more by clicking on the links below.
- Futures in Nursing: Important education, student aid, and career information related to nursing, in addition to various certificates and degree programs available to help you reach your goals.
- Discover Nursing: Website by Johnson & Johnson provides you with information on the nursing profession, scholarships, statistics on the nursing shortage, employment opportunities, and more.
- Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow: A coalition of 43 nursing and health care organizations working together to wage a communications campaign to attract people to the nursing profession. Also, check out the resource link for helpful information on attending school and handling family responsibilities.
- Nursing World: Website for the American Nurses Association.
Career & Outcomes
Graduates of our bachelor of science in nursing (B.S.N.) program are sought-after hires, with 100% of our last graduating class finding employment within six months of graduation. Nurses like ours—who hold a four-year BSN rather than a two-year associate’s degree—are the preferred nursing professionals for the advanced skills and knowledge that lead to improved patient outcomes. In fact, the Institute of Medicine has called for 80% of the nursing force to be prepared with a bachelor’s degree by 2020. To meet this critical goal, we offer both a traditional BSN program for undergraduates and an RN to BSN pathway for working nurses. Both programs are nationally recognized for excellence, with our students posting a stellar 94% NCLEX first-time pass rate. Nurses with a BSN are positioned to take advantage of the many opportunities in nursing, with its varied employment settings and multiple avenues for continual growth and advancement. The BSN-prepared nurse can also build on the degree, through advanced study, and pursue management tracks, advanced practice specialties, and research and teaching careers, among other options. Alumni of our high-quality graduate and certificate programs are rewarded with challenging, fulfilling careers in advanced nursing and in management, policy, and leadership at regional, national, and international levels.
Program Outline:
General Education Courses Requirements
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course presents the basic principles of chemistry, including the concepts of the structure of atoms and molecules, chemical bonding, and properties of solutions.
1 Credits
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Laboratory for CHM_1025. Laboratory fee. (2 hrs. Laboratory.)
4 Credits
Course Description:
This course is designed to present basic computer terminology and functions to those with no prior computer experience. This subject covers the basic data processing cycle, history of data processing, hardware components and functions, number systems, and files. Also, the students receive an introduction to the use of the Internet.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course is an introduction to college-level writing, offering freshmen students training in the techniques and skills required to write unified, coherent paragraphs and essays and in the use of the library and electronic formats as a source of reference. Students receive instruction on the principles, practice, and skills of argumentation and critical reading and thinking. This course serves to meet the US Higher Educational Institution Gordon Rule writing requirements.
Learning Outcome:
- Expand knowledge of sentence construction and overall essay organization.
- Write a documented research paper using the library and electronic formats.
- Proofread and revise your writing.
- Locate information in the library using various formats and write correct bibliographical references.
- Identify and correct Run-Ons and Fragments within a passage.
- Understand the writing process and follow the four steps in writing an effective paragraph and essay.
- Identify subjects and verbs.
- Make subjects and verbs agree.
- Develop fluency in writing by increasing the frequency of writing.
- Identify and correct spelling errors.
- Correct use of capital letters and punctuation marks in sentences and paragraphs.
3 Credits
Course Description:
Students will apply and refine their writing skills in various types of writing such as persuasive writing, argumentative writing, comparison, and contrast writing, research papers, expository writing, writing about literature, and creative writing.This course serves to meet the US Higher Educational Institution Gordon Rule writing requirements.
Learning Outcome:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Produce essays that demonstrate their skills in the major rhetorical patterns such as narration, description, process, definition, argumentation, persuasion, and comparison and contrast.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the fundamentals of research and proper documentation.
- Be able to reflect on what contributed to their writing process and evaluate their work.
3 Credits
Course Description:
An introduction to the study of human biology, including evolution, ecology, physiological regulations, nutrition, genetics, immune response, reproduction, development, aging, and cancer.
Learning Outcome:
- Describe the structure and function of the human body as a whole.
- Describe the structure and function of the integumentary, skeletal, muscular, circulatory, and respiratory systems.
- Identify the anatomical and physiological bases of the most common diseases and disorders, and diagnostic, imaging, and therapeutic procedures related to these systems.
- Be able to use the microscope and the laboratory equipment in the identification of microscopic structures and functions of these systems.
3 Credits
Course Description:
The study of the structure and function of the cells and tissues and the human body as a whole. Includes the digestive, nervous, sensory, endocrine, urinary, and reproductive systems. The Laboratory will be used for the macroscopic and microscopic study of structures, and practical demonstration of some functions of these systems.
Learning Outcome:
- Describe the structure and function of the human body as a whole.
- Describe the structure and function of the digestive, nervous, sensory, endocrine, urinary, and reproductive systems.
- Identify the anatomical and physiological bases of the most common diseases and disorders, and diagnostic, imaging, and therapeutic procedures related to these systems.
- Be able to use the microscope and the laboratory equipment in the identification of microscopic structures and functions of these systems.
3 Credits
Course Description:
The nature of human behavior as a dynamic developmental phenomenon. While the emphasis is psychological, an understanding of the physical aspects of development and their social implications is included. Observation and written analysis of principles of learning involved in human development is required. This course meets teacher certification requirements in the area of psychological foundations and provides an overview of the various areas included in the field of human psychology.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course offers a chronological survey of guiding ideas and trends within western culture, as reflected in the philosophy, literature, and fine arts of the ancient, medieval, and modern times. The instructor will select a succession of periods that can be covered meaningfully within the term. The student will acquire knowledge of the cultural achievements falling within selected periods in the development of western civilization, along with an understanding of how these achievements contribute to making the west’s present cultural inheritance.
3 Credits
Course Description:
The following topics are included in this course; functions; domain and range of a function; graphs of functions and relations; algebra of functions; composite and inverse functions; linear, quadratic, and rational functions; absolute value and radical functions and equations; exponential and logarithmic properties, functions and equations; systems of equations and inequalities; mathematical modeling; and applications involving the able listed topics.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course outlines the principles of Elementary Bacteriology and Parasitology. It explores the microbial diversity, microbial genetics, physiology and metabolism, pathogenic microbiology, virology, immunology, industrial and environmental microbiology; laboratory emphasis on basic techniques.
Learning Outcome:
- Describe the classification of microorganisms.
- Be able to recognize each main type of microorganism at the microscope.
- Define culturing principles.
- Describe the microbiological techniques.
- Be able to utilize microbiological techniques as indicated.
- Describe the most important prevention methods.
- Describe the methods of microbial destruction.
- Describe the microbiological basis of immunity.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course covers developments in social and cultural changes through modern times. Topics covered will examine the sociological perspectives, sociological research, sexuality, cultural debates, the process of socialization, groups and organizations, crime and deviance, stratification, inequality and discrimination that affects ageism and gender, race and ethnicity, issues involving the economy, different forms of government, marriage, religion, health, and environment safety, urbanization, and social movements.
Core Courses Requirements
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course focuses on the examination of ethical dimensions of professional nursing practice with an exploration of applied nursing ethics, moral development, ethical theories and principles, and moral reasoning.
3 Credits
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This course focuses on the basic nutritional requirements necessary to support health. Economic practices in purchasing, storing, preparing, and serving food for the individual and the family will be discussed. Health care agency dietary service and therapeutic diets as they relate to disease and health will be elaborated upon.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course introduces students to the mission and values of the university and nursing profession and explains how the goals and expectations of the nursing program are congruent with these beliefs. It introduces the beginning-nursing student to the concepts, theories, and issues of the professional nursing role. Introduces the eight processes, which frame the undergraduate curriculum, within the context of the philosophy of the School of Nursing and a community-based program, which guides the total curriculum. The essential processes include change, communication, critical thinking, leadership, nursing, professionalization, research, and teaching/learning. Other concepts include mind-body-spirit unity and the cultural aspects of individuals. Facilitates an understanding of nursing’s historical development and the role of the nurse in today’s healthcare delivery system.
3 Credits
Course Description:
Provides an intense, interactive program of study of medication dosage calculations. Includes the application of specific formulas that lead to safe medication calculation.
Includes the various classifications of pharmacologic agents. Addresses the professional nursing implications for safe administration, observation for desired effects, and recognition and treatment of adverse drug reactions and interactions.
3 Credits
Course Description:
Provides the concepts and skills of health assessment across the life span, including health history and interviewing. Students perform complete system assessments of good children, adults, and elderly patients in community settings. Focuses on the acquisition of therapeutic nursing interventions that support, promote, restore, and optimize health in a variety of health care settings. Nursing interventions are mastered in the laboratory setting and provide a foundation for nursing practice.
3 Credits
Course Description:
Focuses on alterations in the biological patterning that affect the homeostasis and hemodynamics in human beings across the lifespan.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course focuses on psychosocial problems faced by nurses in multiple care settings— home care, nursing homes, residential care, outpatient, psychiatric home care, and the hospital. It evaluates psychosocial responses to the stresses of illness, illness of a family member, hospitalization, or alterations in mental health, and provides clinically relevant interventions.
3 Credits
Course Description:
The theoretical and practical bases for public health nursing are presented. Knowledge from previous courses is integrated as students identify and analyze the health care needs of aggregate populations and independently plan and actualize public health intervention projects.
3 Credits
Course Description:
Introduction to the professional and social issues of leadership roles and clinical management functions. Assists the student in cultivating and acquiring the leadership skills needed to be innovative and prepared to function in tomorrow’s healthcare environment.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course presents nursing research as a basis for nursing practice. The student will learn about research methods.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course focuses on the history and evolution of the nursing profession, ethical imperatives, and current trends and issues impacting professional practice in an evolving healthcare delivery environment are foundations for the development of the professional nurse. The role of the prepared graduate focuses on the utilization of evidence-based nursing practices and advanced leadership and management skills in a variety of settings within a global community.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course focuses on the examination of community health, ethical dimensions of professional nursing practice with an exploration of applied nursing ethics, moral development, ethical theories and principles, and moral reasoning. Key topics include population-focused practice, community assessment, health promotion, vulnerable populations, and disaster management.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course introduces the concepts, principles, skills, and professional nursing roles essential to practice community based professional nursing with families and groups.
3 Credits
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This laboratory course focuses on the knowledge, communication abilities, and technical skills necessary for a comprehensive assessment of individuals of all ages.
3 Credits
Course Description:
Focuses on meeting the adolescent health needs of individuals and families within the community. Emphasis is placed on providing a continuum of care for at-risk adolescents with acute or chronic conditions. Special focus placed on the unique role of nursing and its contributions to the parent-adolescent health team.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This class was designed to instruct the students on how culture, values, and beliefs of clients influence the delivery of health care.
3 Credits
Course Description:
Medicine (IOM), it is clear that nurses are a pivotal focal point in health care delivery systems. Yet the United States is amid a severe and continuing nurse shortage. For clients (and their safety), for delivery systems (and their viability), and payors (and their solvency), strong nurse leaders and administrators are imperative.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course integrates theoretical knowledge and interpersonal skills in the assessment of clients, focusing on differentiating normal from abnormal findings. It emphasizes the use of problem-solving, critical thinking, and cultural competency in identifying multidimensional health variations across the life span. The course includes classroom and laboratory experiences.
3 Credits
Course Description:
Introduction to the professional and social issues of leadership roles and clinical management functions. Assists the student in cultivating and acquiring the leadership skills needed to be innovative and prepared to function in tomorrow’s healthcare environment.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course focuses on the social issues of leadership roles and clinical management functions. Assists the student in cultivating and acquiring the leadership skills needed to be innovative and prepared to function in tomorrow’s healthcare environment.
3 Credits
Course Description:
Geriatric Nursing. Details the complex health needs and societal issues of the elderly in our society. Opportunity to manage the health care needs of older clients in a variety of settings while identifying the sociological and political challenges that are unique to clients in this age group.
3 Credits
Course Description:
Focuses on health promotion and illness prevention, synthesis, and application of nursing skills and theory while caring for individuals, families, and aggregates as an integral part of the community. Students study public health principles and experience an in-depth relationship with the client(s) over an extended period in a variety of community settings to become familiar with the many roles of the community health nurse.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course focuses on health and illness across the lifespan of patients who have acute and chronic emotional and psychosocial difficulties and psychiatric illnesses The course emphasizes development of students’ decisional capabilities, self-awareness and professional behaviors as they utilize theory and research from nursing, psychology and related disciplines for the provision of nursing care to individuals, families, and groups. Clinical experiences in community and acute care settings are designed for students to engage in individual and group strategies that promote and maintain mental health. The course includes classroom and clinical activities in a variety of settings.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course focuses on meeting the parent-child health needs of individuals and families within the community. Emphasis is placed on providing a continuum of care for at-risk pregnant women, infants, and children with acute conditions. Special focus placed on the unique role of nursing and its contributions.
3 Credits
Course Description:
Focuses on meeting the parent-child health needs of individuals and families within the community. Emphasis is placed on providing a continuum of care for at-risk pregnant women, infants, and children chronic conditions.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This didactic, laboratory, clinical, and seminar course introduces students to the concepts of contemporary professional nursing. The student is guided in the application of theory to clinical practice and in the development of cognitive, psychomotor, communication, and therapeutic skills necessary to address common needs and responses of persons experiencing various health states.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course focuses on health and illness across the lifespan of clients who have acute and chronic emotional and psychosocial difficulties and psychiatric illnesses The course emphasizes development of students’ decisional capabilities, self-awareness and professional behaviors as they utilize theory and research from nursing, psychology and related disciplines for the provision of nursing care to individuals, families, and groups. Clinical experiences in community and acute care settings are designed for students to engage in individual and group strategies that promote and maintain mental health. The course includes classroom and clinical activities in a variety of settings.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course focuses on the childbearing family and women’s reproductive health, including family dynamics and growth and development. Health promotion, protection, maintenance, and restoration are covered in experiences that include hospital and community settings. Health care policy and systems as relevant to these populations are included. The course includes classroom and clinical activities in a variety of settings.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course focuses on pediatric health and illness with an emphasis on family dynamics, growth and development, and communication with children and their families. Health promotion, protection, restoration, maintenance, and support concepts are covered in experiences that include hospital and community settings. Health care policy and systems are studied as relevant to this population. The course includes classroom and clinical activities in a variety of settings.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course integrates theory and practice from the previous nursing and general education courses to prepare the student for entry into professional nursing practice. Within a seminar context, students explore a variety of clinical and professional nursing topics. The course includes research-based strategies utilized for health promotion and protection, health restoration, maintenance, and support. Areas of study are selected from across the lifespan, including diverse populations in a variety of health care systems. The course includes classroom and clinical experiences in a variety of settings.
Nursing care of women during their reproductive and post-reproductive years, including the interdependent needs of their families. The emphasis is on family-centered care of women in a variety of multicultural community-based settings.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course is a continuation of Acute Care Nursing I. It emphasizes the implementation and evaluation phases of the nursing process. Students further develop planning and research-based nursing management strategies in collaboration with clients and their families. Students become more systematic in evaluating the effectiveness of nursing interventions and formulate questions that serve as a basis for future research studies.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course presents nursing research as an advance for nursing practice. Gives experiences in reviewing, analyzing, and interpreting research for nursing practice.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course is designed to assist the graduating student in the transition to the role of the professional nurse. Management concepts, leadership skills, and the legal, ethical, and professional responsibilities of the registered nurse are stressed in the didactic component. The clinical experience in an acute care setting promotes the student’s transition to graduate with its emphasis on management of care and leadership, functional health patterns, professional behaviors, communication, clinical decision-making, caring interventions, teaching and learning, collaboration, and managing care activities in a broad, in-depth application of the nursing process in the clinical management of groups of patients.
Electives Courses
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course will familiarize the student with the basic philosophical questions and the different attempts of the great philosophers to offer answers to these questions. The student will learn a philosophical point of view to approach these questions. It will present an overview of the origins of western philosophy. This is a humanities distribution course. This course serves to meet the Gordon Rule requirements.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course traces developments in World history from a constellation of relatively isolated regions in 1500 to global interdependence of the present-day. The emphasis in the course will be on tracing the emergence of the interdependence between world regions–an interaction that was stimulated by the European invasions and colonizations and sustained by the contributions of the non-western regions. Together these forces shaped the modern world. In analyzing and understanding global histories as inter-connected, we will pay close attention to the social, cultural, political, economic, demographic, and ecological implications of this history. Class lectures and readings will stress upon issues of diversity, power imbalances, and the interactive workings of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and national variables. However, primarily a course in global history, it will draw upon materials and pedagogical approaches from other disciplines, such as feminist studies, anthropology, literature, political science, and art.
Learning Outcome:
- The course will promote understanding of different cultures as they have developed in global, political, social, cultural, economic, and environmental contexts.
- It will provide the opportunity for students to study the historical development of local and regional societies, and cross-disciplinary and geographical boundaries to appreciate an increasingly interdependent and multicultural world.
- This pedagogical approach will emphasize the interconnectedness and uniqueness of all peoples.
- It will elucidate the contributions of culturally diverse groups to the formation of the modern world while highlighting their achievements.
- The course’s potential is exemplary for instilling the skills and values of world citizenship and for relating to people different from oneself.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course outlines the characteristics of growth and development from conception to birth, birth through preschool, school-age through adolescence, and adult through the human life span.The course focuses on the nature of human behavior as a dynamic developmental phenomenon. While the emphasis is psychological, an understanding of the physical aspects of development and their social implications is included. Observation and written analysis of principles of learning involved in human development is required.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course outlines the organizational behavior studies the behavior of individuals and groups in organizational settings. The course focuses on the nature of human behavior as a dynamic developmental phenomenon. While the emphasis is psychological, an understanding of the physical aspects of development and their social implications is included. Observation and written analysis of principles of learning involved in human development is required.
3 Credits
Course Description:
This course will focus on understanding the physical nature and metabolism of the genetic material, patterns of inheritance of traits, and basic approaches of recombinant DNA technology. The student will learn to approach genetic issues in society with a critical mind and educated perspective.
Total Credits Hours
120
Disclaimer: Hebrew University and University Central of Ashdod (UCEA) College of Nursing reserves the right, because of changing conditions, to make modifications of any nature in academic programs and requirements of the university and its constituent colleges without advance notice. Students are advised to consult regularly with an academic advisor concerning their programs of study.