Accelerated Bachelor of Science - Nursing (online)
- 1,5 years
- Duration
- 42,700 USD
- Price
- Rolling admission
- Start
- Rolling admission
- Deadline
- Bachelor
- Degree
- Online
- Format
- Kansas City / USA
- Location
- Avila University
- School
Program description
If you have at least 60 college credits, an associate degree, or a bachelor’s degree in a non-nursing field, Avila University’s Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN) program can help you transition into a rewarding nursing career in as few as 16 months. To get you ready to take the NCLEX-RN® and work as a registered nurse, this intensive curriculum blends classroom instruction with clinical experience.
In Avila's cutting-edge NERC, you may learn all the fundamentals of nursing and hone your clinical abilities. Gain valuable experience in a simulated and real-world setting with 60 hours of lab training. Then, you'll finish your education with supervised clinical rotations in healthcare facilities around Kansas City.
Because of Avila's small class sizes, you can get one-on-one attention from dedicated nursing professors who care about your progress. The program at Avila has an impressive three-year average NCLEX-RN® pass rate of 96.68%, and it is completely approved by the Missouri State Board of Nursing and accredited by the CCNE. Upon completion of this program, you will be prepared to enter the nursing profession with a solid grounding in patient care, leadership, and health promotion.
Program structure
To graduate from the Accelerated BSN online degree program, you must complete a total of 61 credits of coursework, including 60 hours of skills lab and 585 hours of supervised clinical practicum and simulation experiences in our state-of-the-art facilities. This program’s Accelerated BSN courses equip you to pursue initial licensure as a generalist registered nurse (RN).
Semester 1
- NU 425: Foundations of Health and Illness Concepts I
- NU 450: Development of the Professional Nurse I
- NU 452: Nursing Pharmacology
- NU 453: Health Assessment
Semester 2
- NU 111: Nutrition
- NU 458: Practicum I
- NU 459: Health and Illness Concepts II
- NU 471: Women and Children Health Concepts
- NU 473: Psychosocial Nursing Concepts
Semester 3
- Varied: Interdisciplinary Course
- NU 466: Gerontological Nursing
- NU 470: Development of the Professional Nurse II
- NU 476: Foundations of Evidence-Based Nursing
- NU 481: Practicum II
- NU 482: Health and Illness Concepts III
Semester 4
- NU 484: Population Based Health Concepts
- NU 485: High-Acuity Nursing Concepts
- NU 488: Practicum III
- NU 489: Capstone Practicum
Price
- Tuition fees — 700 USD per credit hour (42,700 USD per course)
Requirements for applicants
Our Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN) program is designed for individuals who have 60 or more prior college credits, an associate degree, or a bachelor’s degree in a field other than nursing from a regionally accredited college or university (or an international equivalent).
All qualified applicants will receive a personalized degree completion plan and, depending on their previous coursework, may be offered full admission to the School of Nursing or may begin their Avila journey by completing the foundational courses required for full admission.
To qualify for full admission, you must meet the following requirements:
- 60 transferable credits with at least a 2.8 GPA
- Completion of these prerequisite courses with a minimum GPA of 2.5:
- Anatomy and Physiology I
- Anatomy and Physiology II
- Chemistry
- Microbiology
- Statistics
- Developmental Psychology
- Pathophysiology
- Meet core general education requirements
- Applicants who have earned an associate or bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university will have fulfilled all general education requirements
- Applicants who have yet to complete all general education credits can take these classes in an online accelerated format and will work with an academic advisor to complete a personalized degree completion plan
- TEAS score of 70%
English Proficiency for Undergraduate Students
Students must meet English proficiency requirements through any of the following minimum standards. Please note that any English test score submitted must be dated within two years and be submitted by the examining body:
- TOEFL exam – an overall score of at least 61 iBT
- IELTS exam – an overall score of at least 5.0 with no individual band score below 5.0
- Duolingo score of 90 or higher
- Other approved English Language test or program with score consistent with above approved scores.
Applicants with a secondary school education from an institution where the language of instruction is English, as indicated on a transcript.
About the university
Upon their arrival in the United States from France in the middle of the 1800s, the Sisters of St. Joseph committed themselves to the "practice of all the spiritual and corporal works of mercy and which will most benefit the dear neighbor." Avila University was founded on these tenets, and it has carried on the heritage via its values and mission.
As a result of our Catholic heritage, Avila University offers an educational experience that fosters the growth of the whole person by teaching students how to love in a way that aims to bring them closer to God and to their beloved neighbor.
The goal of Avila students is to change the world and their communities through creativity, passion, and drive. There are a lot of international students from around the globe on campus. Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, France, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam are among the nations.
