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.