TO:
December 14, 2007
Mark Schneiderhan, Chair
Senate Committee on Educational Policy
FROM: Midge Grosch
Director, Programs and Academic Assessment
I am forwarding for review and action of the Senate Committee on Educational Policy the attached
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The revision was approved by the faculty in the College of Nursing on October 19, 2007.
Attachment
Cc: P. Lewis
T. Bartholomew
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Revision of the the Bachelor of Science in Nursing, RN/BSN Track
College of Nursing
This proposal is to eliminate the three NLN Mobility Profile Exams currently required to award proficiency credit for Associate Degree work in Nursing to
RN/BSN students who do not qualify for credit through the provisions of the
Illinois Articulation Initiative.
The new policy on awarding credit would state: A nurse who has graduated from a
State Approved Associate’s Degree in Nursing (ADN) program and holds a current license as a Registered Professional Nurse will receive 33 semester hours of proficiency credit. The credit will be awarded upon successful completion of NUSC
210, Health Assessment (3sh) and NUSC 242, Concepts and Processes for
Contemporary Nursing Practice (4sh) in the RN to BSN program.
The NLN Mobility Profile exams are no longer necessary. The Associate Degree
RN who is currently in practice has passed the NCLEX exam demonstrating competency to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse. The National Council
Licensure Exam (NLCEX) is a national exam which curently covers the same content areas convered in the NLN exams. Students must pass this exam in order to be licensed as Registered Nurses. This requirement is the same for all states.
The NLN Mobility Profile Exams are costly and provide a hardship for the prospective RN-BSN student who must prepare to sit for the exams. Most of the RN to BSN programs in the U.S. have dropped the requirement for a separate set of proficiency exams in order to obtain proficiency credit.
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Undergraduate Curriculum Subcommittee: September 11, 2007
Curriculum Committee: October 8, 2007
Faculty Executive Committee: October 10, 2007
General Faculty: October 19, 2007
Dr. Patricia Lewis
Associate Dean for Clinical Nursing Practice Studies
Fall 2008
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Current Catalog Statement
RN/BSN Admission
RN/BSN applicants are required to meet the transfer student admission requirements: 2.50/4.00 minimum cumulative GPA, a 2.00/4.00 natural science GPA and completion of the required prerequisite LAS courses.
The didactic protion of the curriculum is offered online by the faculty at the Quad-Cities campus.
Practicum is individually arranged through the course coordinator. Students have the option to attend full time or part time. The length of the program will be determined by the number of courses successfully validated through the National League for Nursing
(NLN) Mobility II Profile exams or articulation and the number of nursing courses taken each semester after enrollment.
The College of Nursing participates in the Illinois
Articulation Initiative and has articulation agreements with several community colleges. Check the Illinois
Articulation Initiative Web site http://www.transfer.org/IAI/FACT/ for a list of approved schools. Students who apply within five years of graduation from one of these programs, meet all other college and University admission requirements and are admitted, are not required to complete the National League for Nursing (NLN)
Mobility II Profile examinations. Thirty-three hours of credit are awarded after successful completionof the courses NUSC 242 – Concepts and Processes for
Contemporary Nursing Practice and NUSC 210 –
Health Assessment.
Students must have an active RN license for admission. When the student applies for admission directly from a nonbaccalaureate nursing program, he or she must take the NCLEX-RN Licensure
Examination at the first opportunity after graduation and present the RN license to the college prior to enrollment. Failure to paa the NCLEX-RN
Examination will result in cancellation of admission.
Proposed Catalog Statement
RN/BSN Admission
The College of Nursing at the University of Illinois at
Chicago, through its partnership with The Global
Campus, now offers a Bachelor of Science in Nursing
(BSN) Degree for RN students primarily online. This degree provides an excellent foundation for a career in leadership in one of the fastest growing professions in the United States.
The BSN Completion Program for RNs delivers courses using online instruction that emphasizes group collaboration, along with practicum experiences designed to be completed in the student's locale.
Admission to the program for RNs requires a minimum cumulative, non-nursing GPA of 2.75/4.00 as well as a natural science GPA of 2.5/4.00.
The nurse who has graduated from a State-approved
Associate's Degree in Nursing (ADN) program and holds a current license as a Registered Professional
Nurse will receive 33 semester hours of proficiency credit. The credit will be awarded upon successful completion of NUSC 210 and NUSC 242 in the RN to
BSN program.
Students must have an active RN license for admission. When the student applies for admission directly from a nonbaccalaureate nursing program, he or she must take the NCLEX-RN Licensure
Examination at the first opportunity after graduation and present the RN license to the college prior to enrollment. Failure to pass the NCLEX-RN
Examination will result in cancellation of admission.
International applicants to the BSN Completion
Program for RNs must submit a Full Education
Course-by-Course Report Evaluation of Foreign
Credentials from the Commission on Graduates of
Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS), 3600 Market St.,
Suite 400, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2651, (215) 222-
8454, www.cgfns.org
or e-mail at info@cgfns.org
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Information on the application process, deadline dates, tuition cost and length of the program can be found at: http://global.uillinois.edu/
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Current Nursing Course Requirements
NUSC 202- Concepts and Processes of Professional
Nursing *
NUSC 210 – Health Assessment
NUSC 215 – Pathophysiology and Applied
Pharmacology I **
NUSC 217 – Pathophysiology and Applied
Pharmacology II **
NUSC 225, Introduction to Clinical Concepts and
Processes **
NUSC 242 – Concepts and Processes in Contemporary
Nursing Practice***
NUSC 322 – Introduction to Nursing Research and
Statistics for Evidence-Based Practice
NUSC 335 – Clinical Concepts and Processes in Adult
Health **
NUSC 345 – Clinical Concepts and Processes in
Women’s and Family Health **
NUSC 355 – Clinical Concepts and Processes in
Children’s and Family Health **
NUSC 365 – Clinical Concepts and Processes in Mental
Health **
NUSC 375 – Concepts and Processes in Older Adult
Health ****
NUSC 385 – Clinical Concepts and Processes in
Population-Focused Nursing
NUSC 390 – Nursing Leadership and Management in
Healthcare
NUSC 397 – Issues in Nursing Practice
*NUSC 202 is not required for the RN/BSN Curriculum.
**RN/BSN Curriculum: Courses that may be validated for credit by successful completion of NLN Mobility II
Profile examinations or through articulation.
*** RN/BSN Curriculum: The NLN Mobility II Profile examinations or articulation will validate five semester hours of NUSC 225. The other semester hour of credit will be earned through successful completion of NUSC
242. Validation of clinical competency is achieved by completing NUSC 210. Note that only RN/BSN students take NUSC 242.
**** RN/BSN Curriculum: NUSC 375 is not required but can be take to fulfill three semester hours of the nursing elective requirement.
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** RN/BSN Curriculum: Courses that are validated for credit by graduating from a State Approved ADN program and holding a current license as a Registered
Professional Nurse.
*** RN/BSN Curriculum: Graduating from a State
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