BSN students may enroll on the Morgantown campus for the entire program, or take the Freshman and Sophomore years at Potomac State College and complete the Junior and Senior years at the WVU Morgantown campus.  The entire program is also offered at West Virginia University Institute of Technology (WVUIT).  Students may also take the Freshman and Sophomore years at Glenville State College and complete the Junior and Senior years at WVUIT.

The curriculum includes courses in the humanities, social sciences, basic sciences, and nursing science.  These courses are taken in conjunction with nursing clinical courses.  Students apply their learning to actual client, family, and community situations that warrant nursing intervention.  In keeping with the University's commitment to improving health care for all West Virginians, all health sciences students complete a rural clinical practice as part of the degree requirements.  Nursing students complete the rural clinical practice experience during their senior year.

Outcomes of the BSN Program:

CRITICAL THINKING

Employs reasoning and creativity in the process of assessment, interpretation, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and inference as a basis for professional nursing practice.

NURSING INTERVENTIONS

Applies theory-based clinical judgment decision-making in the delivery of skilled nursing therapeutics with persons across the life span in health promotion/risk reduction, health maintenance, and health restoration setting.

PROFESSIONAL ROLE

Demonstrates attitude, values, personal qualities, and behaviors consistent with professional nursing practice.

CARING

Provides empathetic, sensitive, and compassionate care for individuals, families, and aggregates that upholds moral, legal, and ethical humanistic principles.

COMMUNICATION

Integrates effective, interpersonal, therapeutic, and informatics communication processes in professional nursing practice.