Online RN to BSN

As a student of this accelerated online degree program, you will strengthen your skills through coursework and practical experiences focused on critical thinking, problem-solving, and leadership and management development. Upon graduation, you will have earned the knowledge necessary to enhance your service as a professional member of the health care community in a variety of venues and situations.

At University of the Cumberlands, our 100% online RN to BSN program can be completed in as little as 12 months. While rolling admissions and accelerated 8-week bi-terms are designed to accommodate the needs of working professionals.

Both the ADN and BSN educational levels offer a path toward becoming an RN. But, the BSN degree gives you a pathway to obtain a Master's Degree in Nursing. At University of the Cumberlands, we developed our Master of Science in Nursing programs to help RNs like you take the next step on the path toward becoming a Family Nurse Practitioner.

This program’s curriculum is geared toward students who already have foundational nursing knowledge. You must have completed an ADN program and be eligible to sit for the NCLEX (national nurse certification exam) for conditional admission into Cumberlands’ RN-BSN program. For full admission, you must have an unrestricted RN license.
Don’t have either of those credentials yet? No worries! Cumberlands offers an on-campus ADN program that covers all the essential information at an affordable cost. 

The Department of Nursing at University of the Cumberlands believes that nursing is a culmination of caring as both an art and a science and an exemplar profession for acts of service to the community. The curriculum promotes attainment of educational outcomes through use of the nursing process and critical thinking to provide client centered evidence based, culturally competent care. The nursing program at University of the Cumberlands is built upon the pre licensure quality and safety competencies presented by the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) Institute including: patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics.

Based on the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Essentials of Baccalaureate Nursing Education, the online RN-BSN program is designed to build on the registered nurse’s knowledge and skills in seven areas:

1. Leadership
2. Quality Improvement
3. Evidence-based Nursing Practice
4. Nursing Informatics
5. Population-focused Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
6. Interdisciplinary Collaboration
7. Professionalism

Graduates of the Cumberlands RN to BSN Degree Program are prepared to assume roles in leadership positions, in the management of complex clinical care coordination, and in community/public health.