The RN to BSN degree program builds upon your nursing skills by providing research-based learning, leadership training, and liberal arts. Earning the BSN prepares you to offer patients a higher level of knowledge and expertise. The degree can also be used for those wishing to advance into management or director positions in a health care system.
UT Arlington's College of Nursing has revised its online RN to BSN program to include all the courses you need to graduate with your BSN, including general courses. Online learning also allows you to continue your education while juggling the many activities of home and work.
You can enroll immediately regardless of the number of General Courses you have completed by clicking the Apply Now button. This unique online delivery format is the most cost-effective and efficient way to provide a BSN degree to nurses who hold an associate degree or a diploma.
Moving from RN to BSN can help you:
- Develop a personal framework for your professional nursing practice.
- Enhance your decision-making and critical thinking skills.
- Strengthen your nursing leadership and management skills to meet today's challenges in healthcare issues and trends.
- Apply a systematic approach to comprehensively assessing individuals, families and groups including physiological, psychosocial, cultural and spiritual beliefs.
- Utilize evidence-based data to strengthen and improve client care outcomes through comprehensive, efficient and cost conscious care.
The University of Texas at Arlington College of Nursing has streamlined its online RN to BSN Program to include all the courses you need to graduate with your BSN, including General Courses, formerly known as prerequisite courses.
Every student will begin the nursing program with Professional Nursing A and B, assuming they have completed Composition I and II. Students must complete all General Courses before entering the last course of the nursing program, which is the Capstone Course. A College of Nursing advisor will provide a course map for you taking into account your specific requirements and the course offering schedule once you have applied, submitted your official transcripts, and been accepted by UT Arlington College of Nursing.
To see the most efficient way to progress through the general and nursing courses, you can use the "View Course Map" button at right.
View upcoming start dates and courses being offered for Fall 2010 (.PDF)
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You will be able to start the RN to BSN program regardless of the number of General Courses you have completed. When creating your individual course map, a UT Arlington College of Nursing Academic Advisor will take into consideration the following conditions:
- Composition I will need to be taken before Composition II.
- Composition I and Composition II will need to be taken before Technical Writing.
- Anyone who has completed Composition II can start the Nursing Courses by taking Technical Writing (General Course) and Professional Nursing A (Nursing Course) concurrently. If you withdraw or fail Technical Writing, you must repeat it while taking Nursing B. If you don't, you must pass Technical Writing before you take any other Nursing Course.
- Statistics (General Course) will need to be completed prior to taking Nursing Research (Nursing Course).
- Introduction to Psychology will have to be taken prior to Developmental Psychology.
- BIOL 1441 Cell and Molecular has to be taken prior to Human Anatomy and Physiology I.
- Human Anatomy and Physiology I will have to be taken prior to Human Anatomy and Physiology II.
- Professional Nursing A and B must be completed before any other Nursing Course, including the upper division nursing elective.
- All other Nursing Program Courses (total of 9, including Capstone Course) and General Courses (total of 18) can be taken in any order (as will be offered by UT Arlington) as long as all but one General Course remains to be taken prior to the Capstone Course.
- Students can take more than one Nursing Course at a time after they complete Professional Nursing A & B.
Download the list of required textbooks for the Nursing Courses (.pdf)
Download the list of required textbooks for the General Courses (.pdf)
Hide book purchasing instructions
- Go to the Textbooks portion of the UT Arlington Bookstore.
- Select "All" in the "Program Select" drop down.
- Select your appropriate term. To find your term reference the Calendar.
- Select "DYN" when asked to "Select Your Division".
- Select "Nurs" when asked to "Select Your Department".
- Finally, you will have to "Select Your Course" and "Select Your Section" before an appropriate list of books will appear for you to purchase online.
Course schedule subject to change based on the sole discretion of UT Arlington.