The Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program (BSN) at The Ohio State University is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, 655 K Street NW, Suite 750, Washington, DC 20001, 202-887-6791.
The BSN program prepares students for entry-level professional practice positions in a variety of settings and is the prerequisite for advanced graduate study. Undergraduate professional education in nursing is both a liberal and a professional education designed to prepare students to provide nursing care based on scientific and humanistic principles.
Course requirements are designed to allow students to obtain competencies needed to provide high quality care to individuals and populations. The study of professional nursing includes classroom, laboratory, and extended reality (XR) instruction in the art and science of nursing and supervised clinical instruction in a variety of hospital and community settings.
Each year of the curriculum builds upon content from the previous one as students are prepared to care for individuals, families, groups and communities with increasingly complex health care needs and problems. In addition, with increasing complexity, students are given opportunities to collaborate within an interdisciplinary team.
Outcomes for Graduates of the Baccalaureate Program
We have high aspirations for our students as healthcare professionals. We support them in pursuing their personal and professional success through a simple philosophy of LIVEWELL. The BSN graduate will be prepared to:
- LEAD: Embody the values and leadership abilities of a professional nurse across the lifespan in a variety of settings.
- INNOVATE: Serve as an innovative nurse who makes meaningful and unique contributions toward wellness promotion, disease prevention and management, and population health improvements.
- VISION: Practice with vision and leverage one’s own career to transform healthcare to ultimately improve quality and safety.
- EXECUTE: Execute clinical reasoning and evidence-based decision making to practice with the full extent of licensure.
- WELLNESS-FOCUSED: Apply a holistic approach to optimal health and wellbeing for self, individuals, and populations.
- EVIDENCE-BASED: Implement best practices consistently while fostering an evidence-based practice culture.
- LIFE LONG LEARNING: Embrace life-long learning to transform health and improve lives.
- LIGHTS FOR THE WORLD: Exemplifying the spirit of caring and service.
TECHNICAL STANDARDS FOR NURSING STUDENTS: POLICY GUIDELINES
The College of Nursing is committed to equal access for all qualified program applicants and thus has identified technical standards essential to the delivery of safe, effective nursing care while enrolled as a student in the program. These standards determine the students’ ability to acquire knowledge and develop the clinical skills required by the curriculum. The student must continually meet these standards throughout their course of study in nursing for successful program completion. Failure to maintain these standards may result in removal from the clinical course.
General Abilities: Must be able to utilize the data typically received by the senses so it can be integrated into care in an accurate manner. Examples include: interpreting patient’s verbal and non-verbal expression of pain; identifying baseline physical assessment findings and changes in temperature, vibration, color and movement; identifying and interpreting heart, lung, abdominal sounds and blood pressure; having the ability to respond to equipment and monitor alarms; interpreting charts and computer data accurately.
Communication: Must be able to communicate effectively with both spoken and written communication in real time with a primarily English speaking population. Examples include: performing patient teaching, communicating patient status changes, and maintaining accurate patient records.
Patient Care: Must possess the ability to independently perform nursing skills within a safe time frame and engage in activities over an extended period of time (i.e., 6-12 hour clinical practicum). Examples of activities include: the ability to support and transfer patients; position and manipulate medical equipment using both fine and gross motor skills; prepare and administer medications; use the techniques of palpation and percussion; perform CPR.
Professional Behavior and Conduct: Must be responsible and accountable for behavior and actions, demonstrating sound judgment consistent with the professions’ (ANA) Scope & Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics for Nurses. Examples include: handling stressful situations in a calm manner, interacting with patients, families and other healthcare team members with compassion, concern and sensitivity; acting with honesty, integrity and confidentiality; dressing appropriately; acting professionally.
Clinical Judgment: Must have the ability to think critically and abstractly, assess, analyze, problem-solve and make clinical judgments and decisions for safe patient care. Examples include: measuring, calculating, prioritizing, reasoning, recognizing urgent or emergent situations, responding appropriately and using both short and long term memory functions.
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