Accelerated Nursing
Curriculum and Courses

Curriculum and Courses

Accelerated BSN courses are offered in a combination of online and face-to-face, on-campus classes that allow most students to complete their degree within 15 months.

Year 1

Fall Semester:

  • NURS 125 Foundations in Professional Practice I
  • NURS 126 Foundations in Professional Practice II
  • NURS 226 Health Assessment
  • NURS 227 Fundamentals of Nursing Practice
  • NURS 340 Nursing Research
  • BIOL 346 Pathophysiology 

Spring Semester:

  • NURS 230 Pharmacology
  • NURS 251 Introduction to Clinical Practice in Medical-Surgical Nursing
  • NURS 375 Nursing Care of Parents, Newborns and Children

Summer Semester:

  • NURS 351 Clinical Practice in Medical-Surgical Nursing
  • NURS 360 Mental Health and Family Nursing
  • NURS 430 Perspectives in Global Health and Nursing
  • NURS 460 Community Health Nursing

Year 2

Fall Semester:

  • NURS 451 Nursing Care of Adults with Complex Health Problems
  • NURS 486 Nursing Leadership and Management
  • NURS 487 Nursing Senior Capstone: Preparation for Licensure and Practice 
  • PHIL 305 Biomedical Ethics

Nursing course descriptions available online at www.muskingum.edu/academics/nursing/courses.

Prerequisite Courses

  • General Chemistry with lab (4 credit hours)*
  • Anatomy and Physiology I with lab (4 credit hours)*
  • Anatomy and Physiology II with lab (4 credit hours)*
  • Microbiology with lab (4 credit hours)*
  • Statistics (3 credit hours)
  • Nutrition (3 credit hours)

*Anatomy and Physiology I and II, Chemistry, and Microbiology must have been successfully completed within the past 10 years.

Prerequisite course descriptions available online.

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