Founded more than 70 years ago, Jacksonville University (JU) has more than 18,000 alumni. Located on a beautiful 260-acre campus overlooking the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, FL, JU is a traditional, accredited, long-standing University with an outstanding faculty, NCAA Division I athletic teams to cheer for and unparalleled academic and technical support. JU offers one of the largest online RN to BSN degree programs in the country and is recognized as one of the nation's foremost teaching institutions. Faculty have won four Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year Awards in recent years. In fact, Jacksonville University was recently named one of "America's Best Colleges" by U.S. News & World Report.
As a member of the University Alliance Online, the nation's largest exclusive e-Learning provider of degree and certificate programs from accredited universities, JU currently offers the most technologically advanced Online Learning Management System for online RN to BSN degree programs. Through advanced Internet technology, JU students are immersed in a stimulating online learning environment that includes streaming video and audio lectures, Internet message boards, chat rooms and email.
Online Nursing Program
RNs with an accredited Associate's degree or nursing Diploma may be well on their way towards their BSN degree. Jacksonville University will award up to 30 credit hours for an active U.S. RN license and transfer credits from other accredited universities and institutions of higher learning. JU also accepts up to 30 hours through CLEP exams.
Courses within the Online RN to BSN degree include: Dimensions of Professional Practice, Nursing Assessment for the Experienced Nurse, Nursing Research for the Experienced Nurse, Health Promotion & Rehabilitation Nursing Theory, Physiological Adaptation to Illness, Critical Care Nursing Theory for the Experienced Nurse, Community Health Nursing Theory for the Experienced Nurse, Community Health Nursing Practice for the Experienced Nurse, Leadership & Management in Professional Practice, Professional Nursing Synthesis for the Experienced Nurse, Elective: Nursing Art: Magic of Music Interventions, and Elective: Omega Strategies.
Jacksonville University Programs
RN to BSN (licensed RNs only)
