Program Overview

The RN to BSN Nursing Program is designed for and limited to individuals who are licensed as registered nurses (RN) in the United States. This Program is designed to articulate with many two-year Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) programs. The RN to BSN Program prepares registered nurses to assume leadership roles as an integral nurse at the bedside, within an organization, in the community, and in the profession. The Program provides a unique and innovative nursing curriculum that is based upon the Theory of Integral Nursing. Through its integrative care focus, this Program prepares nurses to provide holistic, intentional, relationship-centered care that addresses individual and collective health. 

If you are a working nurse or RN license holder who is interested in furthering your career, consider that Northern's program allows you to:

• Learn how to integrate alternative and complementary therapies into your nursing practice, including self-care and alternative therapies.
• Discover how to provide holistic, intentional, relationship-centered care that addresses individual and collective health.
• Take Courses with highly-qualified faculty with years of experience in holistic health and wellness, clinical practice, and nursing education.
• Continue your career while completing coursework in a flexible online setting.
• Graduate from the most affordable and only holistic accredited RN-BSN program in the state of New Mexico.

Graduates of the RN to BSN program will:

• Use the Theory of Integral Nursing and the American Holistic Nurses Association and the American Nurses Association Holistic Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice (2013) to provide integral and holistic nursing care in a variety of settings.
• Demonstrate critical thinking skills from an “I”, “It”, “We”, “Its”, integral perspective.
• Communicate effectively from a relationship-centered care perspective involving Patient-Practitioner, Community-Practitioner, and Practitioner-Practitioner relationships.
• Conduct integral holistic health assessments in relation to client needs.
• Apply concepts of integral nursing to a personal plan for holistic self-care.
• Integrate and apply knowledge to support individual and collective health.
• Analyze the links between and among individual, community, and global health issues from an integral world view.
• Analyze and utilize research findings to facilitate individual and collective health.
• Demonstrate the role of the integral nurse as change agent in regards to current health policy issues.
• Utilize integral coaching strategies in relation to client-centered goals.
• Apply transformational leadership principles to professional nursing practice.
• Integrate selected complementary/integrative health practices into professional nursing practice.
• Demonstrate commitment to lifelong learning to facilitate personal and professional development.