Advance Nursing, Lead with Purpose.
San Jacinto College’s RN-to-BSN program is a one-year, 100% online pathway designed for registered nurses holding an associate degree who want to deepen their professional impact. You’ll build on your clinical foundation by engaging in eight-week courses focused on community health, leadership, informatics, public policy, and research. In your final semester, you’ll apply what you’ve learned through a workplace-based project aimed at improving patient care, organizational efficiency, or staff performance.
Career Opportunities and Income
Visit sanjac.edu for information regarding career opportunities and potential earnings in the Greater Houston region.
Job Entry Requirements. The College informs all students in this program who may have a criminal background that a criminal history could keep graduates from being licensed by the state of Texas. Students with any questions about their background and licensure may speak with the program’s department chair. This is in accordance with Texas House Bill 1508 amendments to Texas Occupations Code Sec 53.152.
Learning & Career Pathway
The Nursing, Bachelor of Science is intended to provide students with all skills needed to enter the workforce. At this time, this award is the only one that employers value and hire for job entry, so the College does not currently have other certificates or degrees related to this learning pathway.
Learning Outcomes and Career Skills
A student completing this bachelor’s degree will be able to:
- Promote the practice of professional nursing through advocacy and leadership activities while functioning within the nurse’s legal and ethical scope of practice
- Synthesize comprehensive assessment data and implement the plan of care for patients, families, populations, and communities using evidence-based practice and published research
- Formulate goals and outcomes using an evidence-based and theoretical analysis of available data to reduce patient and community risk
- Integrate the use of multiple referral resources and technology in monitoring and promoting quality health care by considering cost, effectiveness and efficiency of care, continuity and continuum of care, and health promotion, maintenance, and restoration
Program Accreditation
The RN-to-BSN program received initial accreditation November 25, 2020, through:
The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN)
3390 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 1400
Atlanta, Georgia 30326
Office: 404-975-5000
Fax: 404-975-5020
Approved by:
Texas Board of Nursing
1801 Congress Avenue, Suite 10-200
Austin, Texas 78701
Licensure or Certification
Have an Associate of Applied Science in Nursing degree from an accredited institution.
External Learning Experiences
This program includes external learning experiences outside of the classroom, e.g., an internship, externship, clinical, practicum, or cooperative learning experience. Those experiences are typically on-site at a business or organization.
All students participating in external learning experiences are required to comply with the immunization requirements and policies of the external learning sites. Some learning sites outside the college have their own vaccination requirements. These rules come from those facilities and are not mandated by the college. Failure to meet those immunization requirements may limit a student’s ability to complete the program and/or may delay the student’s graduation date. San Jacinto College does not process exemptions, and students should address potential vaccination exemptions directly with the external learning site.
Locations
College Admission
San Jacinto College is an open admission institution. All students are welcome to apply and will be admitted to the College. You may begin the process on the College’s “How to Apply” webpage.
Program Admission
In addition to being admitted to the College, students must also be admitted to the Nursing, Bachelor of Science which has additional requirements and/or steps.
The College requires that students adhere to the following list for entry into the RN-to-BSN program:
- Completed AAS in Nursing from an accredited institution;
- Hold an unencumbered, Texas RN license. License must be valid through the program duration;
- Be currently employed as a professional nurse (letter from employer required);
- Maintain a cumulative GPA 2.5 on a 4.0 scale;
- Reflect a grade of C in all previous nursing and science transfer courses; and
- Submit one recommendation letter from employer supervisor or former nursing faculty.
Conditional Admission for San Jacinto College ADN Graduates
Students completing the San Jacinto College Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) program may be granted conditional admission to the RN-to-BSN program pending successful completion of the NCLEX-RN examination.
Students admitted under conditional status may enroll in the first 8-week course. To continue enrollment in the program, the following documentation must be submitted no later than the start of the second 8-week course:
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Proof of successful NCLEX-RN completion;
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Verification of an unencumbered Texas RN license (license must remain valid throughout enrollment); and
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Verification of current employment as a professional nurse (employer letter required).
Students may see detailed admission information on the San Jacinto College BSN webpage.
Plan of Study
BSN-NURS
| First Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Prerequisites | Credits | |
| Transfer Courses (34 SCH) 1 | 34 | |
| Select 34 SCH from the following: | ||
| Foundations for Nursing Practice | ||
| Nursing Skills I | ||
| Health Assessment | ||
| Clinical - Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse | ||
| Pharmacology | ||
| Common Concepts of Adult Health | ||
| Clinical Nursing Common Concepts for Adult Health | ||
| Mental Health Nursing | ||
| Clinical Mental Health Nursing | ||
| Care of Children and Families | ||
| Clinical Nursing Care of Children and Families | ||
| Maternal Newborn Nursing and Women 's Health | ||
| Clinical Registered Nursing | ||
| Enhanced Concepts of Adult Health | ||
| Clinical - Registered Nursing | ||
| Professional Nursing: Leadership and Management | ||
| General Education Courses (45 SCH) | ||
| BIOL 2301 & BIOL 2101 | Anatomy and Physiology I (Lecture) and Anatomy and Physiology I (Lab) | 4 |
| BIOL 2302 & BIOL 2102 | Anatomy and Physiology II (Lecture) and Anatomy and Physiology II (Lab) | 4 |
| BIOL 2320 & BIOL 2120 | Microbiology for Health Science Majors (lecture) and Microbiology for Health Science Majors (lab) | 4 |
| ENGL 1301 | Composition I | 3 |
| ENGL 1302 | Composition II | 3 |
| GOVT 2305 | Federal Government (Federal Constitution and Topics) | 3 |
| GOVT 2306 | Texas Government (Texas Constitution and Topics) | 3 |
| Select two (2) of the following: | 6 | |
| United States History I | ||
| United States History II | ||
| Texas History | ||
| Mexican American History I | ||
| Mexican American History II | ||
| Language, Philosophy and Culture (Humanities) 2 | 3 | |
| PSYC 2301 | General Psychology | 3 |
| PSYC 2314 | Lifespan Growth and Development | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Public Speaking | ||
| Interpersonal Communication | ||
| Business and Professional Communication | ||
| Creative Arts (Fine Arts) | 3 | |
| Credits | 79 | |
| Second Year | ||
| Prerequisites | ||
| Pre-requisite Courses for BSN (10 SCH) | ||
| BIOL 1322 | Nutrition and Diet Therapy | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 4 | |
| Introductory Chemistry I (lecture) and Introductory Chemistry I (lab) | ||
| General Chemistry I (lecture) and General Chemistry I (lab) | ||
| Mathematics 3 | 3 | |
| Credits | 10 | |
| Third Year | ||
| First Term | ||
| Upper-level Nursing Courses (31 SCH) | ||
| NURS 3350 | Transition to Baccalaureate Nursing | 3 |
| NURS 3244 | Issues and Trends in Nursing | 2 |
| NURS 4314 | Theoretical Principles of Nursing | 3 |
| NURS 4341 | Health Promotion Across the Lifespan | 3 |
| Credits | 11 | |
| Second Term | ||
| NURS 3432 | Community Health Nursing | 4 |
| NURS 4358 | Public & Global Health Policy | 3 |
| NURS 3351 | Research & Evidence-Based Nursing Practice | 3 |
| NURS 3353 | Informatics & Technology in Healthcare | 3 |
| Credits | 13 | |
| Third Term | ||
| NURS 4326 | Legal & Ethical Considerations in Nursing | 3 |
| NURS 4457 | Leadership & Management | 4 |
| Credits | 7 | |
| Total Credits | 120 | |
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Prospective students must schedule a meeting with the Department Chair to discuss specific transfer courses from associate degree nursing programs to fulfill this Transfer Courses requirement.
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The BSN program recommends students choose PHIL 2306 Introduction to Ethics for this requirement.
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The BSN program recommends students choose MATH 1342 Elementary Statistical Methods (Statistics) for this requirement.