The Nursing curriculum focuses on the development of clinical judgment and critical thinking, evidence-based practice and research, leadership in nursing practice, and culturally-sensitive healthcare. Graduates of the BSN program are prepared to progress to advanced practice programs at the graduate level.
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Program Details
The Bachelor of Science in Nursing program offers a course of study that prepares entry-level nurses for state licensing exams. Graduates of the BSN program are eligible for licensure in all states. Satisfactory performance in the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) results in the graduate being known as a registered nurse or RN.
Career Paths
Students who earn a BSN degree may explore the following careers:
Careers for graduates who earn a BSN degree include:
- Acute care: hospitals
- Adult daycare, assisted living facilities, and retirement homes
- Public health
- Home healthcare, hospice, palliative care
- Long-term care: skilled facilities
- Outpatient facilities
Eligible for Leadership and Management Positions in long-term care, hospitals, and community settings
Specialty Areas: ICU, ER, CCU, NICU, pediatrics, medical-surgical, rehabilitation, occupational health, perioperative practice, OB & women's health, as well as mental health, school nurse, clinical research, health policy, health coach, physicians' offices & clinics, travel nursing, educational units, and staff development
Internships & Employment
Where Students and Alumni Intern and Work:
- Abington Reproductive Medicine
- Abington-Jefferson Hospital
- Birches at Newtown
- Brightstar Care of North Bucks
- Capital Health RN
- Cooper University Health
- Einstein Medical Center
- Genesis Hopkins Center
- Horsham Clinic RN
- Hospital of University of Pennsylvania
- Jefferson Health-RN
- Lankenau Medical Center
- Magee Rehabilitation
- Manor Care Huntington Valley
- Nazareth Hospital
- Thomas Jefferson University
- UPMC Hamot Hospital
- UPMC Pinnacle Harrisburg Hospital
- Virtua Marlton Hospital-RN
- Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes
- Virtua Willingboro Hospital
Nursing Profile: Mehwish Sadaqat ’24
Mehwish Sadaqat ’24 loves to talk about family. Her own close-knit family includes her mother and siblings, who immigrated from Pakistan in 2018, and her father, who arrived five years earlier to prepare a path for them. She also loves to talk about her Holy Family University family. For her, they are really one in the same.
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