Earn your online RN to BSN in as few as 12 months

This course prepares students to be successful lifelong learners both academically and in their chosen careers. Franklin courses require a high level of self-directed learning and focus on the skills required in the workplace and the classroom that are easily transferrable between the two environments. The course includes strategies for time management, goal setting, reading comprehension, and advancing communication skills, including the use of electronic tools to participate in virtual environments.

This course prepares students to be successful lifelong learners both academically and in their chosen careers. Franklin courses require a high level of self-directed learning and focus on the skills required in the workplace and the classroom that are easily transferable between the two environments. The course includes strategies for advancing communication skills, including the use of electronic tools to participate in virtual environments. The assignments and activities in the course are created to closely simulate teamwork found in the workplace.

By using applied critical and creative thinking, students in this course will develop a set of communication skills that will enhance their personal and professional relationships and endeavors. This course will focus on skill development in key areas such as self, perception, listening, verbal messages, conversations, relationships, conflict management, persuasion, and presentation skills.

This basic public-speaking course intends to improve the student's ability to think critically and to communicate orally. Theory and practice are provided in various speaking situations. Each student is required to speak before an audience, but class work also involves reading, gathering and organizing information, writing, and listening.

Understanding cultural competency, ethics, policy, and law is necessary for healthcare professionals in a continuously evolving healthcare system. This course will provide students with practical knowledge and methods for applying ethical, legal, and cultural decision-making frameworks to mitigate risks. Topics will include regulatory compliance, patient consent, privacy and confidentiality, and cultural competence.

In this course students will develop a strong foundation in health law, enabling them to deal with the common legal, practical, moral, and ethical issues that healthcare organizations face on a daily basis. Topics will include statutory law, rules and regulations, tort law, criminal law, contract law, civil procedures, and trial procedure.

This course will explore the essential conceptual and analytical understanding of health policymaking and politics, including their impact on health administration and leadership. Selected policy issues will be explored through the application of political concepts and behavioral models, including a system model of policymaking. The emphasis will be on understanding the health leader?s approach to the policymaking system, become involved in it, and work through it to attain their objectives and those of their organization.

This course is designed to facilitate transition into the study of professional nursing. The course introduces the scope and theoretical foundations of the nursing profession, with emphasis on the societal mandate for nursing, legal parameters of practice, critical thinking and communication.

This course is designed to broaden and enhance the professional nurse's knowledge and skills in health promotion and holistic assessment of individuals across the lifespan. Students will explore concepts of assessment and health promotion, disease, and injury prevention. Emphasis is placed on recognizing deviation from normal and assessing physiological, psychosocial, developmental, spiritual, environmental, genetic, and cultural dimensions while completing a comprehensive health assessment.

This course will prepare professional nurses to provide compassionate, high-quality care to patients and their support system during end-of-life (EOL) care. Nurses will explore reflection as a strategy to maintain self-care in an effort to deliver effective communication and spiritual support to patients and family members. Evidence-based resources for professional and family caregivers will be reviewed as well as health policy regarding EOL care to move healthcare initiatives forward in the political arena. Students will create case studies using the concepts of social determinants of health, person-centered care, and ethics to demonstrate self-efficacy in EOL care throughout the patient's lifespan.

This course provides an overview of the research process including methodology, design and interpretation of findings. Students will study basic statistics relevant to interpreting research findings. The emphasis in the course will be on the integration of current evidence, including nursing and health care research, to guide nursing practice and promote high quality and safe patient care outcomes.

The focus of this course is the professional nurse's role as a member of a healthcare team working towards the collaborative goal of health equity and improved health for ALL patients across the lifespan. Community and population health includes public health, acute care, ambulatory care and long-term care which can be delivered at local, regional, national and global levels. This course presents the health promotion theory and concepts of clinical judgment, communication, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), ethics and health policy. Students will complete indirect patient care hours using courseware simulation and an evidence-based project focused on health promotion and disease prevention. Direct patient care hours will be acquired by the students using face to face and/or telehealth/virtual simulation to provide safe, compassionate care to individuals or groups within their communities. Achieving equitable population health outcomes along with the identification of meaningful community-wide partnerships will allow nursing students to serve groups in a safe and effective manner.

This course focuses on the development of agile nursing leaders who are self-aware and able to adapt to ambiguity and change within the context of complex healthcare systems. Values such as integrity, altruism, compassion, humility, autonomy and social justice will be explored relative to a variety of leadership roles in nursing practice. Theories and principles of leadership and management in healthcare environments that support the use of evidence-based and innovative solutions to address complex problems will be emphasized. Organizational mission, vision, and strategic planning, along with quality improvement, patient safety, and motivation and change theory as applied to healthcare systems across the continuum are explored. Effective communication with healthcare professionals, individuals, and groups to promote high quality and safe, compassionate patient care is reviewed and elaborated upon within the context of the nurse leader role. Direct patient care hours will be acquired through face to face or telehealth preceptorship with nurse leaders. Indirect patient care hours will be acquired through evidence-based course project.

The focus of this course is preparing the professional nurse to assume a high-tech, compassionate caregiver role when using Informatics and healthcare technologies to improve the delivery of safe, high-quality and efficient healthcare services to a diverse client population. Effective communication strategies will be integrated into this course to promote ethical, compassionate care when using technology in decision-making, planning of individualized care and providing holistic services throughout the lifespan. Core concepts including clinical judgment, communication, compassionate care, diversity, equity and inclusion, ethics, evidence-based practice, health policy and social determinants of health will be interwoven throughout this course as applied to the global and future perspectives in health informatics for professional nurses.

This culminating course provides the opportunity for students to summarize how the competencies and sub-competencies from The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education (2021) were met through direct and indirect patient care hours. Students will use self-reflection as a tool to review and expand upon concepts discussed throughout the RN-BSN program. Current nursing and healthcare evidence will be used to further develop capstone project which was initiated in evidence-based course. Capstone project will be shared as an innovative presentation with nursing colleagues, faculty and community members.