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Nursing (BSN)
The University of St. Francis provides one of the finest nursing educations available, preparing you to be a competent clinician and an advocate for your patients. USF nursing students learn to work with state-of-the-art technology and equipment. Small classes mean you also will receive a high level of personal attention and individual guidance while enjoying a close-knit environment with your classmates.
Nursing is an important, lively, dynamic profession. The USF Nursing program prepares you with up-to-date skills, critical thinking, cultural awareness and experiential learning. You will learn to succeed in an evolving nursing profession with classes, labs, simulations, and clinical experiences. Put in simple terms, nurses are life-savers. Registered nurses provide care in a wide variety of health care settings, including doctor’s offices, hospitals, urgent care centers, pharmacies, schools, and many other locations. You will be challenged and prepared to coordinate the care for all aspects of a patient’s overall health.
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The USF BSN program truly prepares you for the rigor of real world nursing!
Nursing takes high critical thinking skills, empathy, compassion, attention to detail, and much more. The program and curriculum, teachers, clinical instructors and administration truly do everything to ensure that USF’s graduated nurses express all of these qualities and more. My USF education has prepared me to be PICU nurse and for that, I will be forever grateful!
— Danielle Aurit
WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH THIS DEGREE?
Our BSN graduates regularly earn an NCLEX pass rate that’s higher than the national average. Graduates who pass the NCLEX are thereby licensed as registered nurses and are able to enter any generalist practice area in nursing. LCON graduates provide nursing care for a variety of individuals in a variety of health care settings. They are equipped to meet the nursing needs of contemporary society and have the intellectual inquiry necessary for continued development.
GROW THROUGH REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE
Many areas of health care—hospitals, home health, community health, managed care, primary care clinics, hospice care, long-term care and mental health services—are addressed in the curriculum, giving students hands-on clinical experiences at local and regional hospitals and health care facilities. In addition, LCON’s simulation labs allow students the opportunity to enhance their skills using computerized mannequins. The skills lab and a variety of patient visit rooms provide even more appropriate spaces in which to practice nursing techniques.
ACCREDITATIONS
The University of St. Francis is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (hlcommission.org), a regional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, and is authorized to operate as a post-secondary institution by the Illinois Board of Higher Education (ibhe.org). Leach College of Nursing programs are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (ccneaccreditation.org). The BSN is further accredited by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (idfpr.com).
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