BSN Program

BSN Program

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The BSN Program is designed to prepare learners to apply for RN licensure and take the NCLEX-RN® exam, while giving them in-depth training in the fields of disease prevention, community health, advocacy, and policy. The BSN Program is a blended-distance program-all didactic instruction is delivered online while experiential learning is conducted through various virtual and on-ground modalities.

Nightingale College BSN Program

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Outcomes are used to organize the curricula, guide the delivery of instruction, and direct learning activities.

End of Program, Program, Course level learning outcomes direct the organization of concepts and exemplars delivered throughout the curricula. The courses in each semester are progressive, leveled, and patterned to culminate in the achievement of EPSLOs. Each nursing course has eight (8) course specific CL-LOs.

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Upper-Level Courses

300-499

Lower-Level Courses

100-299

BSN Courses

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Remediation

Benchmark

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850

Research on predictive accuracy of the HESI exams has been conducted using this HESI score, and studies have found the HESI Score to be highly accurate in predicting NCLEX success. For example,while a score of 850 or more is acceptable, students who score at 900 or above on the HESI Exit Exam are predicted to pass the NCLEX without additional preparation. Each nursing program is responsible for establishing its own standard or policy for benchmarked or acceptable scores, including any gradebook conversion metrics.

Health Education Systems, Inc. (HESI), a national standardized testing package to provide learners with a consistent means for remediation and addressing shortfalls in the attainment of knowledge and achieving the requisite professional nursing competencies. The HESI exams are designed to assist the learner in preparation for the NCLEX licensure exam with the HESI-RN exit exam a predictor of likelihood of success on the NCLEX.

HESI

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NCLEX Item Type Tutorial

NGN Guidebook

NCLEX Exam Preview

NGN NCLEX

RN Test Plan

Clinical Judgment Model

NCSBN

The NGN launched on April 1, 2023 to better measure nursing candidates’ clinical judgment and decision making abilities through the use of innovative item types. The need to measure this stemmed from information gathered during the 2013-2014 NCSBN Strategic Practice Analysis, which showed newly licensed nurses are increasingly expected to make complex decisions while caring for patients.

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• Is this a curriculum issue?
• Is this a necessary change? Why?
• How does this impact the learner?

• NGN
• Essentials/Competencies
• Pharmacology
• Scalability

Maintaining stability External

• Publishing & Vendor -updates, timelines, tool performance
• Constant changing of the Nursing field
• Accreditation and practice requirement updates

• Expectations & timelines outside our department
• Delivery of communications
• Last minute change requests

Challenges

Considerations

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VitalSource Bookshelf

Learners have all their reading & study materials right within the etext- highlights, notes, flashcards, workbook, & Bookshelf CoachMe formative practice.

eBook tied to interactive digital lessons with built-in assessments and adaptive quizzing assignments

OMS: Virtual Reality nursing simulation

Digital Clinical Experience: conversation engine

Access Elsevier teaching materials and product training

Sherpath

Oxford Medical Simulation

ShadowHealth

Evolve

Tools & Resources

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No Sherpath: Capstone Courses

HESI Compass

Future of Nursing Seminar

FYI...

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