Nursing
Major
Make an impact. Becoming a nurse is a choice that offers both personal and professional fulfillment. Here at Bushnell, studying nursing means becoming part of a community that integrates faith with compassionate healthcare. As a frontline provider, you’ll play a critical role in patient care. Whether it’s offering comfort, educating patients, or performing life-saving interventions, you’ll have the opportunity to truly make a difference in the well-being of others.
Contact
Janet Welch, MSN, RN
Director of Nursing
541-954-7451
jwelch@bushnell.edu
Why Choose Nursing at Bushnell?
At Bushnell, you’ll find faculty dedicated not only to your academic success, but also to nurturing your spiritual growth, encouraging you to serve with both skill and empathy. Through hands-on clinical experience and a curriculum rooted in Christ-centered values, you’ll be prepared to make a difference in patients’ lives. At Bushnell, you’ll be equipped to lead with both expertise and a heart for service.
Here you’ll find multiple pathways to become a licensed registered nurse. For students who are just beginning their academic journey, you’ll complete your general education requirements along with your nursing pre-requisites prior to applying to Bushnell’s School of Nursing. You’ll work closely with your academic advisor to stay on track and ensure that you are fulfilling the requirements needed to join the cohort when you’re ready! Many students apply to the School of Nursing their junior year, but some students choose to complete a bachelor’s degree in another area (such as Biology, Kinesiology, or Interdisciplinary Studies), and apply to the School of Nursing for a second degree. The staff and faculty here at Bushnell can help you identify the pathway that’s best for you!
For students who already hold a bachelor’s degree, you can apply directly to the Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN) allowing you to earn your BSN in just 12 months.
Program Objectives
Graduates of this program will:
- Understand, integrate, and apply established and evolving nursing knowledge and ways of knowing as well as knowledge from other disciplines, the arts, sciences, and humanities to support clinical judgment and inform nursing practice
- Provide holistic, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based and developmentally appropriate person-centered care to individuals across the lifespan
- Engage in collaborative activities aimed at improving the health status and outcomes of populations and communities across a variety of settings at the local, regional, national, or global levels
- Critique, apply, and implement nursing knowledge and best evidence generated from research in a way that considers patient preferences and values, the nurse’s experience, and improves health, enhances clinical practice, or influences policy
- Employ established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science into nursing practice and care delivery in order to minimize risk to recipients and care providers as well as improve system effectiveness and individual performance
- Engage in intentional collaboration and communication across professions and with care team members, patients, families, and communities in order to optimize care, enhance the health care experience, and improve health outcomes
- Understand systems-based practice and develop knowledge, skills, and abilities to function as change agents and leaders within complex systems of health care
- Understand and utilize information and communication technologies and informatics tools to guide and inform nursing practice and care, enhance communication and connections, and improve health
- Develop a professional nursing identity that embraces the values of integrity, altruism, inclusivity, compassion, courage, humility, advocacy, and caring
- Engage in activities that promote personal health and growth, expansion of professional knowledge, skills, and abilities, and development as an ethical nurse leader
Admission Process
Prior to applying to the School of Nursing, students will complete their general education requirements and nursing program prerequisites.
Your Bushnell academic advisor will work with you to make sure all requirements are met. To learn more about the ABSN admission requirements, visit the program webpage.
Clinical Practice
Students will have the opportunity to participate in learning activities in a variety of settings. These may be in acute care hospitals, clinics, schools, specialty hospitals, and community-based care settings.
Assigned clinical rotations may be any day of the week and any hour of the day, including traditional day, evening, and night shifts, and may be at sites up to 75 miles from the Bushnell University campus. Students are responsible for their own transportation.
View Our Space
If you’re interested in seeing campus and our nursing program facilities, please contact our nursing admissions counselor, Carrie Gillies at cgillies@bushnell.edu.
To view our nursing space in partnership with PeaceHealth, please visit our Center for Education & Research Hall photo gallery.
Beacon Points of Pride
- Ranked#2 Best Nursing School in Oregon, According to Nursing Degree Search
- 2022 NCLEX first-time pass rate: 100%
- 2023 NCLEX first-time pass rate: 100%
- 12-month curriculum
- Small cohort size
- Clinical experience opportunities in a wide array of settings
ABSN Curriculum
Mean Annual WAGE
Data provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
Registered Nurse - Oregon
$113,440Registered Nurse - Eugene
$106,600Mean Annual WAGE
Data provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
Registered Nurse
Oregon
$113,440
Registered Nurse
Eugene
$106,600
Already Have a BACHELORS DEGREE?
Already have your bachelor’s degree? Bushnell’s Accelerated BSN (ABSN) program offers a fast, focused path to becoming a registered nurse. In just 12 months, you can gain the skills and clinical experience needed to transition into a rewarding nursing career.
Already a REGISTERED NURSE?
If you are already a registered nurse, Bushnell’s RN to BSN program is crafted to help you take your career further. Our flexible, online format allows you to complete coursework on your schedule, gaining advanced skills and credentials to enhance your impact in healthcare.
Hear From Our Students
Meet the Faculty
Janet Welch, RN, MSN
Director of Nursing
“By becoming a registered nurse, you will provide care that makes a meaningful difference to others using a Christian worldview, translate evidence into practice as an ethical nurse leader, and immediately impact the quality and safety of health care in your community. Bushnell faculty and staff are 100% committed partners who support your learning and are invested in your success. Come learn with us!”