Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN)

If you hold a bachelor’s degree and are looking to transition to nursing, our Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN) second degree program offers a fast-track to your new career in just 12 months. In this rigorous face-to-face program, you will develop critical nursing skills under the guidance of experienced faculty.

Upon your completion of the ABSN program, you will be eligible to sit for the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX-RN®). As a Bushnell Nurse, you will be a professional, competent, bachelor’s prepared nurse leader able to skillfully provide safe, quality, and compassionate care to others in their time of need.

Program Delivery

The Accelerated BSN program takes students through 44 credits of intensive knowledge and skills development in 12 months. Courses are taught in-person on our campus in Eugene, Oregon, in cohort groups of 16 students. The program includes 16 semester credit hours of clinical practice experiences in a variety of community, acute care, and other healthcare settings.

Purpose

The ABSN program prepares:

• Entry-level nurse generalists for initial licensure as a registered nurse
• Ethical nurse leaders who function to the full extent of their education and scope of practice
• Professional, competent, compassionate, and skillful registered nurse practitioners
• Nurses grounded in the arts, sciences, knowledge, and values of the nursing discipline

Objectives

Graduates of this program will:

• Understand, integrate, and apply established and evolving nursing knowledge and ways of knowing as well as knowledge from other disciplines, the arts, sciences, and humanities to support clinical judgment and inform nursing practice.
• Provide holistic, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based and developmentally appropriate person-centered care to individuals across the lifespan.
• Engage in collaborative activities aimed at improving the health status and outcomes of populations and communities across a variety of settings at the local, regional, national, or global levels.
• Critique, apply, and implement nursing knowledge and best evidence generated from research in a way that considers patient preferences and values, the nurse’s experience, and improves health, enhances clinical practice, or influences policy.
• Employ established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science into nursing practice and care delivery in order to minimize risk to recipients and care providers as well as improve system effectiveness and individual performance.
• Engage in intentional collaboration and communication across professions and with care team members, patients, families, and communities in order to optimize care, enhance the health care experience, and improve health outcomes.
• Understand systems-based practice and develop knowledge, skills, and abilities to function as change agents and leaders within complex systems of health care.
• Understand and utilize information and communication technologies and informatics tools to guide and inform nursing practice and care, enhance communication and connections, and improve health.
• Develop a professional nursing identify that embraces the values of integrity, altruism, inclusivity, compassion, courage, humility, advocacy, and caring.
• Engage in activities that promote personal health and growth, expansion of professional knowledge, skills, and abilities, and development as an ethical nurse leader.

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