The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) Traditional Track option is open to students who have completed their first two years of prerequisite courses. Learn more about our program's prerequisites and application process on the Admissions Information page.
At Jefferson, our College of Nursing students learn clinical skills in a risk-free, simulated-patient environment, the Rector Clinical Skills & Simulation Center (CSSC) — one of the nation’s leading centers.
Combined with their clinical practice at Jefferson Health hospitals, BSN students graduate with excellent clinical skills, and our graduates consistently score among the highest national licensure examination pass rates of all Pennsylvania-based professional nursing programs.
Curriculum
Students complete four semesters of nursing theory and clinical course work for a total of 67 credits.
Program Outcomes
- Apply knowledge and principles from the arts, sciences and humanities to the developmental, psychosocial, spiritual, and physical care of individuals, families, communities, and populations. (Essential I)
- Integrate knowledge and skills in leadership, quality and patient safety into the provision of nursing care to individuals, families, communities, and populations across the care continuum. (Essential II)
- Incorporate reflection, critical appraisal, clinical reasoning and current best evidence into the delivery of nursing care to individuals, families, communities, and populations. (Essential III)
- Utilize information management and emerging healthcare technologies in the delivery of quality nursing care. (Essentials II, IV)
- Recognize the influence healthcare policies, including financial, legal and regulatory, have on health system functioning and the broader determinants of health. (Essential V)
- Use open communication, shared decision making, creative problem solving, and mutual respect when collaborating with nursing and interprofessional teams. (Essential VI)
Locations
The College of Nursing offers undergraduate nursing programs at the Center City Campus in Philadelphia and the Dixon Campus in Horsham, PA.