RN to BSN Upper-Division Orientation

Admission Requirements
Co- and Pre- Requisites

Policy for RNs for Revision Program Plan

As you are aware, the need to revise the policy for progression in the Upper Division courses of the RN/BSN program was ident ified. Below is the policy that has been adopted and is now in effect. Please review this policy closely and keep on file for your future reference.

POLICY FOR REGISTERED NURSES FOR REVISING PROGRAM PLAN
POLICY RN/BSN STUDENTS' REVISION OF PROGRAM PLANS

For a variety of reasons RN/BSN students may find it impossible to complete the BSN program as planned at the time of their admission to the program. Students may revise that plan but must abide by the following policies to maintain enrollment in the program.

1. Students must notify the Director of the RN/BSN program, in writ ing, two weeks prior to the beginning of a quarter that they will be reducing their load or will not be attending any classes. Students reducing their load should specify the class(es) in which they intend to be enrolled.
2. Pre-requisite courses must be completed in order to enroll in the sequential course.
   1. Transition to Professional Nursing is a pre-requisit e course to all Upper Division Nursing courses except Concepts of Community, Genetics, and Professional Nurse as Leader/Manager (the Transition course is recommended as a pre-requisite to these 3 courses);
   2. Statist ics for Health Sciences is pre-requisite to Nursing Theory/Research;
   3. Concepts of Community is pre-requisite to Community as Partner (theory and clinical courses);
   4. Community as Partner (theory course is pre-requisite/co-requisite to the Community as Partner clinical course);
   5. Enrollment in the RN Senior Capstone course must be concurrent with or following completion of all Upper Division Nursing Courses.
3. RN students are responsible for creating a revised, written program plan in collaboration with the RN/BSN Director documenting when course requirements will be met and the site where the course(s) will be taken.
4. Enrollment in courses is contingent on the availability of space in the specific course when taken at another site.