BSN Post-licensure Program Application Procedures
1. Be unconditionally admitted to MSU.
2. Declare nursing as the area and meet with assigned nursing faculty advisor.
3. Submit required materials listed below to the Baccalaureate Nursing Program by the last Friday in March for admission into the fall semester or the last Friday in October for admission into the spring semester:
a. Completed Department of Nursing application.
b. Transcripts from MSU and all universities/colleges attended if courses not listed on MSU transcript.
c. Nursing transfer student: in addition to the above materials must submit:
i. University undergraduate catalog(s) if transfer credit is sought;
ii. Syllabi for nursing course(s) to be evaluated for transfer credit; and
iii. Letter of recommendation from the director/coordinator of the nursing program from which the student is transferring.
d. Validation of current Kentucky registered nursing licensure.
e. Validation of current American Heart Association certification in Basic Life Support for Health Care Providers (CPR).
f. Verification of professional malpractice insurance.
Send required application materials to:
Regional Academic Counseling Coordinator
BSN Post-licensure Track Component
Department of Nursing
Morehead State University
Center for Health, Education and Research (CHER) Suite 201
Morehead, KY 40351
BSN Post-licensure Program Admission Criteria
Students must hold an active and unrestricted license to practice as a registered nurse (RN).
BSN Post-licensure Program Conditions for Enrollment
- Students have the responsibility for the costs incurred by enrollment in the nursing program. These costs include CPR certification, immunizations, health insurance, professional malpractice insurance, criminal background check(s), drug testing, academic materials, testing fees, clothing and equipment.
- Clinical education is a mandatory component of the BSN. Due to accreditation requirements of the clinical education centers, students will be required to obtain a criminal background check and/or undergo drug testing prior to acceptance of clinical assignment. The student is responsible for any incurred cost. Any student who fails acceptance to the clinical assignment will be unable to complete the program.
BSN Post-licensure Program Competencies
Graduates of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing Post-licensure Program will have demonstrated the ability to:
- Assume a leadership role in promoting quality and compliance regarding safety and health in a complex health care environment.
- Develop effective clinical reasoning skills utilizing evidence based guidelines.
- Use informatics to support safe and effective patient care environments and to assist in patient and interprofessional communication.
- Evaluate health care policy, financial and regulatory environments that impact delivery of health care services.
- Develop effective interprofessional communication and collaboration and function effectively in interprofessional teams.
- Promote individual and population health through health promotion and mitigation of acute and chronic illness.
- Exhibit professional behaviors that are accountable, ethical, legal and moral.
- Integrate knowledge and methods from a variety of disciplines, human growth and development, pathophysiology and pharmacology to promote effective clinical reasoning in the provision of client centered care.
BSN Post-licensure Program Requirements
General Education
Refer to the General Education section for a complete listing of general education requirements for the University. Program requirements that are also general education requirements will count in both places (as applicable).
BSN Post-licensure Program Requirements
BSN Post-licensure Program Qualifying Requirements
| BIOL 234 | Principles of Human Anatomy and Physiology I | 3 |
| BIOL 235 | Principles of Human Anatomy and Physiology II | 3 |
| MATH 353 | Statistics | 3 |
| BIOL 336 | Pathophysiology | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 13 |
Free Electives
Associate or Certificate Degree elective hours will be included in credit toward the degree, but not part of the academic evaluation. These elective hours are completed during pre-licensure nursing programming.