Prelicensure Informational Session
An Information Session for the Prelicensure BSN program will be held on Tuesday, February 23rd, from 6:00 - 8:00 PM in the Price Lake Room (201A) in the Student Union. All interested students are welcome to attend.
Approval for Prelicensure Program
We are pleased to announce that the ASU Department of Nursing has received the required approvals to begin a 4-year prelicensure BSN program commencing summer 2010. The Department of Nursing is housed within the newly formed College of Health Science and Allied Professions. The curriculum plan for the program will be posted shortly. Students who have completed the first two years of study (or will complete them in spring 2010) and meet admission requirements are eligible to apply immediately to the upper division nursing program. Dr. Wendy Miller has been appointed Director of the Prelicensure BSN Program. She may be contacted at: millerwe@appstate.edu or 828-262-8039.
Click here to access the Power Point presentation from the Informational Session held on January 20th, 2010.
Wanda Stutts, PhD, RN, CNE
Chair, Department of Nursing
Appalachian State University
Appalachian State University’s Off-Campus Program
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING DEGREE
(RN to BSN program)
The RN to BSN degree is designed for the individual who has earned an ssociate degree in nursing (ADN), or graduated from a hospital diploma program, and holds a current and active registered nurse (RN) license in NC or a compact state. The BSN degree program provides the academic knowledge and skills necessary to advance to the professional entry level in nursing whether the individual chooses to stay in his/her current position, seek a higher level position, and/or to apply to graduate school.
The College of Fine and Applied Arts, in cooperation with the Office of Extension and Distance education, delivers the undergraduate RN to BSN program to selected sites in western, NC. The program blends transfer credit with Appalachian's upper division course work (Nursing courses taken in the junior and senior years of college) to provide local access for RNs to all courses required for the Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree.