Nursing

• Prospective students who have been honorably discharged from the armed forces of the United States, National Guard, or a reserve component may transfer credits for military training and experience. Credit will be awarded for any military education or skills training deemed substantially equivalent to courses in the BSN curriculum. The Transfer Evaluation Department will evaluate all military courses to determine identify credit allocation.
• The Office of Nontraditional and Military Student Services is available to assist students with prior learning assessment to determine college level equivalency.
• Military service will be evaluated to identify if the international perspective BGP course could be waived: An international experience, defined as an academic study abroad experience bearing three or more credits or a documented international military deployment of at least 30 consecutive or 60 non-consecutive days. The student is still required to meet the 36 credit hours of BGP course work for graduation.
• BGSU awards academic credit for completion of Airman Leadership School. The University has approved LMM 1101 Management/Leadership I to fulfill the requirement for Cultural Diversity in the United States. This is an automatic substitution that is handled by the Transfer Evaluation Office.
• Prospective students who were honorably discharged, within the previous five years, will not be required to take the HESI Admission Assessment examination.  Three seats in the BSN program will be saved for students with military service experience or who are contracted with the ROTC.
• For students with military service experience or who are contracted with the ROTC, the BSN program will save 3 seats for fall admits and 2 for spring admits.

• The admission rubric will be used to determine admission to the nursing major.
• Components of the admission rubric include:
  • Cumulative GPA
  • Science + MATH 1150 GPA
  • HESI A2 Scoring of Reading comprehension, Math, Vocabulary, and Anatomy & Physiology
  • Total rubric score will be used to determine admission.
• A total of 80 seats are available for the nursing major in fall, and 40 seats in the spring.

Technical standards are an objective method of ensuring that all applicants meet and satisfactorily maintain the nursing program performance requirements. To ensure that students can meet end-of-course and end-of-program outcomes of the Bachelor of Science in nursing program at BGSU, the following technical standards shall be met, with or without reasonable accommodations (student accessibility services). A reasonable accommodation must be documented as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Decisions regarding reasonable accommodation are determined on a case-by-case basis taking into consideration each student’s disability-related needs, disability documentation and program requirements. While the School of Nursing will make every effort to work with students with disabilities to accommodate their disability-related needs, the School of Nursing is not required to provide accommodations that fundamentally alter or waive essential program requirements.

• The student must be able to:
• Provide safe patient care in any healthcare setting.
• Respond effectively and safely in emergency situations.
• Communicate effectively in a verbal, written and technological manner with individuals, families, communities, peers and interprofessionally.
• Speak, hear, observe, read and understand the English language.
• Have auditory abilities sufficient to auscultate, percuss, hear alarms and various sounds within all healthcare settings, promoting safe care (may be corrected hearing).
• Have visual ability sufficient to promote safe care in all health care settings and situations (may be corrected vision).
• Have olfactory ability sufficient to assess various odors that may indicate unsafe situations.
• Have tactile ability sufficient to perform palpation and various assessments of individuals.
• Assess patients and monitor health needs.
• Provide safe, quality health care to all individuals across the lifespan in a variety of health care settings.
• Function safely in stressful situations.
• Demonstrate behaviors of compassion, integrity, responsibility, and ethical practices that reflect an evolving identity as a professional nurse.
• Demonstrate effective emotional status to exercise good clinical judgment skills and knowledge.
• Meet physical strength and mobility demands of providing care in any healthcare setting.
• Consistently lift 10 pounds.
• Lift ≥20 pounds in various situations.
• Transfer, lift and reposition individuals.
• Perform CPR.
• Stand for long periods of time.
• Move independently in patient rooms to provide safe care.
• Utilize gross and fine motor skills sufficient to provide safe patient care.
• Administer medications safely.
• Use equipment with dexterity to provide safe patient care.
• Abide by all admission requirements outlined in the Nursing Student Health Policy.

• The student is responsible to complete a criminal background investigation, TB test, drug screen, health assessment, immunizations and AHA Basic Life Support Certification after acceptance into the nursing major at the student’s expense. Completion is required for the student to start nursing core courses. Information about the Viewpoint Screening service is provided to the student to assist with this process.

• Direct admission is offered to students with a cumulative high school GPA of 3.9.
• Students must maintain nursing admission requirements to maintain the direct admission seat.
• Students who fail to meet the requirements necessary to maintain their guaranteed seat in the program can apply through the competitive application process and their admission will be determined based on their rubric score.
• Deadline to apply for direct admission is January 15, prior to the start of the Freshman year at BGSU.  

• Transfer credit for nursing courses will only be granted if the courses come from a baccalaureate nursing education program accredited by a national nursing accrediting body.  The Director of School of Nursing will review course descriptions of nursing courses completed at another baccalaureate program to determine which courses are transferrable. The student must be enrolled at BGSU for at least two semesters in the nursing major and complete 30 credit hours from BGSU to be granted a baccalaureate degree in nursing.