BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) is a four-year program that includes general education, major, and professional nursing courses. From the first to the fourth year, clinical classes are embedded with a focus on nursing principles and related learning experiences (RLEs). The BSN program provides an intensive nursing practicum that will further develop and refine further nursing competencies to ensure achievement of the BSN program outcomes required of an entry level nurse.
The BSN program is designed to prepare professional nurses to assume entry-level positions in hospital facilities and community settings. The professional nurse is capable of providing safe, humane, quality, and holistic care to individuals in varying age, gender, and health-illness status; healthy or at-risk families; population groups; and community; singly or in collaboration with other health care providers, to promote health, prevent illness, restore health, alleviate suffering, and provide end-of-life care.
GOALS OF THE NURSING DEPARTMENT
The goal of the Nursing Department is on the holistic development of the person to be a professionally competent and caring nurse imbued with the following core values of love of God, love of country and service to man.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) programs aims to:
- To prepare graduates for the practice of nursing in various settings by providing the broadest basic education, skills and competencies for future leadership positions in nursing.
- To develop among the students, the spirit of compassionate caring, quality of service, social insight, and commitment in health care of the nation.
- To continue to strengthen and facilitate health research initiatives and maintain active outreach programs with the community through coordination and collaboration of undertakings.
PROGRAM OUTCOMES
BSN graduates belong to Level VI (Baccalaureate) of the Philippine Qualifications Framework (PQF) under qualification code number 60913 and are also recognized under the ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework (AQRF). They are also qualified to take the Philippine Nursing Licensure Examination (PNLE) under the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), along with any other certification assessments for global professional practice in the nursing field. Graduates may also opt to pursue post-graduate degrees or take the National Medical Admission Test (NMAT) to pursue a degree in medicine.
Upon completion of the 4-year BSN program, BSN graduates can:
- Provide safe and quality care to clients at home, in hospital and in community using the nursing process.
- Apply evidenced-based practice through research in bedside care, critical care, emergency care and primary health care setting.
- Continuously enhance knowledge, attitude, and skills in nursing research for the improvement of patient care, nursing education and the nursing profession.
- Exercise and enhance their personal and professional development through the nurses’ code of ethics and nursing value system.
- Demonstrate skills in health education and communication with clientele, health team and significant others.
- Apply trans-cultural nursing when dealing with different client care situations in the hospital and community settings.
- Assume leadership and management role and create an open social climate with the health team, clients and significant others aimed at facilitating not only client’s recovery but teamwork effectiveness.
- Apply skills in critical thinking, creativity, decision making and problem solving in every client care situation across the life span.
- Promote the use of health systems approach in the delivery of health care.
- Engage in self- directed lifelong learning of the nursing practice.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
After completion of all academic requirements of the program, graduates of the BSN should be able to practice nursing profession in the hospital, clinic, community, school setting, company, corporations and many more. Graduates of BSN are not only confined within the hospital setting. Nursing professionals can choose from a variety of exciting career opportunities, depending on their educational background, interests, and desired level of practice. Many find positions in hospitals, clinics, private practices, and assisted living facilities. Professionals in many nursing disciplines enjoy lucrative salary opportunities, including some of the highest-paying roles in the field. From entry-level nurse to doctoral-level professor, nursing provides a diverse range of career options. Nurses are hands-on health care providers that concentrate on providing highly personalized care. With the degree being in-demand, the opportunities for graduates of BSN continues to expand particularly now, due to the growing prevalence and emergence of various diseases and ailments and understaffed in most hospitals and other institutions. More career options now exist for nurses than ever before. These positions can be found in rural or urban settings, in private, public, or governmental facilities, and they give the freedom to select which types of patients you want to work with.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRADUATES
- Licensed Registered Nurse
- Public Health Nurse
- Clinical Nurse or Hospital Nurse
- Medical Surgical Nurse
- Nurse Midwife
- School Health Nurse
- Military Nurse
- Occupational Health Nurse
- Nurse Educator
- Nurse Anesthetist
- Nurse Practitioner
- Nurse Researcher
- Informatics Nurse
- Legal Nurse Consultant
- Private Duty Nurse
- Chief Nursing Officer
- Nursing Administrator
- Medical Transcriptionist
- Nurse Entrepreneur
- Researcher
- Health Policy Maker
