BSN Nursing
Entering the nursing field is one of the most selfless callings you can achieve. Using your skills to save others in times of need and helping them live longer, healthier lives lets you serve Christ while you make a difference in the world. Nurses are healthcare experts who combine talents in empathetic caring, creative intellect and skilled practice.
Through Concordia's nursing pathways program with Nebraska's Bryan College of Health Sciences (BCHS), you'll earn a bachelor's of nursing from BCHS, while taking your general education courses here to help prepare you for a career as a Registered Nurse (RN) and help you to improve individual, family and community health and wellness by applying evidence-based skills and knowledge in your practice.
For your first three semesters, you'll be a Concordia student, part of our supportive campus community, where you can participate in co-curricular activities, live on campus, earn a generous financial aid package and get the full college experience.
During your first semester, you'll have the opportunity to interview with BCHS and know early on if you're accepted into their program. Instead of the typical six-month waiting time, you'll know three semesters in advance, allowing you to prepare for your future. Your BCHS classes will then start in your second spring semester.
As a Concordia student, you'll be eligible to earn financial aid for your first three semesters, helping you save some money while you take your general education courses.
Program Differentiators
Core Concepts
The Concordia University, Nebraska and Bryan College of Health Sciences nursing pathways program provides students with the knowledge, skills and abilities to function effectively in all areas of nursing practice through quality instruction and clinical experiences. The program equips students to be servants of Christ, able to apply their knowledge in a variety of hands-on and simulated clinical settings and to lay the groundwork for finding a career in nursing or continuing their professional education at the graduate level.
Concordia Nebraska and Bryan College of Health Sciences Nursing Pathways ProgramNursing: Learning Objectives
Students who transfer to the nursing program at Bryan College of Health Sciences will receive a solid foundation in both natural sciences and applied nursing theory and practice.
Students will learn to communicate clearly and effectively with clients, families and health care constituents.
Students will learn to measure, calculate, reason, analyze and synthesize data related to patient care and nursing practice.
Students will learn to uphold ethical principles and practices of education and the profession of nursing.
Concordia Nebraska and Bryan College of Health Sciences Nursing Pathways ProgramNursing: End of Program Student Learning Outcomes
Students in the Bryan College of Health Sciences and Concordia University, Nebraska partnership will be able to incorporate professional communication in interactions with clients, colleagues and community partners.
Students will understand and utilize scientific knowledge derived from theory and research as it applies to professional nursing care.
Students will be able to assume professional responsibility and ethical accountability in providing health care.
Students will be able to evaluate research critically and use findings selectively in professional nursing practice.
Students will pursue knowledge as a lifelong learner to promote professional growth.
Concordia's Nursing Pathways Faculty
During your classes at Concordia, meet the faculty who you’ll be learning from.
Meet the facultyConcordia Nebraska and Bryan College of Health Sciences Nursing Pathways ProgramNursing: FAQs
- Nursing is Concordia’s principle pre-health program. Through this pathways program, you can have the full college experience for your first three semesters, as you take your general education courses on Concordia's campus.
- As a Concordia student, you can participate in co-curricular activities, live on campus and earn a generous financial aid package to help make your first three semesters as affordable as possible before you transfer to BCHS.
- The biology program at Concordia University, Nebraska, as with all our science programs, integrates science and faith together, rather than seeing them as opposing ideas. Courses and labs in the nursing prerequisite courses at Concordia Nebraska are taught by faculty who are committed to your academic, personal, spiritual and professional well-being.
- Concordia Nebraska’s pre-nursing program is designed to prepare you to transfer to a BSN program elsewhere, or to provide you with a four-year degree in the science field of your choice, usually biology or chemistry that can prepare you for a health-related career. The purpose of the pre-nursing program is to prepare you for further education in a dedicated nursing program or graduate program after graduation.
- In contrast, your Concordia experience will last three semesters before you transfer to BCHS to enroll in their BSN program. Once you're a full-time BCHS student, you will no longer be eligible to receive financial aid from Concordia.
- Through this pathways program, you will interview with BCHS in your first semester on Concordia's campus, and you will receive your BCHS acceptance status earlier than you would if you were to transfer to them after completing four years of study before transferring.
- Your first three semesters will be spent as a resident at Concordia Nebraska. You’ll take general education and foundational science courses, with an emphasis on biology.
- After your first three semesters, you will transfer to become a full-time student at BCHS.
Learn more about Bryan College of Health Sciences BSN in program
The Bryan College of Health Sciences BSN program meets the educational requirements of certification or licensure in many states. For more details, see the Bachelor of Science in Nursing disclosure.
Concordia Nebraska Nursing: Career Outcomes
Registered Nurse
Registered nurses (RNs) perform patient assessments, collaborate with members of the interprofessional healthcare team, administer medications, implement evidence-based practice through interventions and treatments as prescribed by the healthcare provider, create patient care plans, provide patient education and teaching, and evaluate overall patient outcomes. As an RN, you may work in a clinic, hospital, school, long-term care, or assisted living facility, and would be part of a team of healthcare professionals, focusing on patient care. Depending on where you work, you may also be in charge of supervising Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) or nursing assistants.
Nurse Administrator
Nurse administrators typically manage staff in clinics, hospitals, or long-term care facilities, and complete administrative tasks such as staff scheduling, performance reviews, attending meetings, developing training and personnel procedures, managing a budget and more.
Nurse Anesthetist
After graduate school, you may choose to become a nurse anesthetist. Nurse anesthetists administer anesthesia, monitor patient’s vital signs and oversee patient recovery from anesthesia. As a nurse anesthetist, you may assist anesthesiologists, surgeons or other physicians or dentists.
Concordia Nebraska and Bryan College of Health Sciences Nursing Pathways ProgramNursing: Related Programs
Pre-Nursing
Concordia University, Nebraska’s pre-nursing program will prepare you to excel in nursing through a mastery of natural and behavioral science skills, critical writing and analytical reasoning, and opportunities to grow through service, health care internships and research. You will gain foundational knowledge in the sciences, such as chemistry and biology, as well as the psychology and sociology courses you will need to continue your education in nursing.
1 Recent graduates attending graduate school or employed within six months of graduation.
2 Career salary and wages sourced from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.