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Nursing program
Applying to the program
Students interested in pursuing a bachelor’s degree in nursing at Northwestern College begin by taking general education and prerequisite courses during their freshman year. Candidates apply to the nursing program during the spring semester of their freshman year. All qualified applicants are guaranteed placement in the program. Northwestern’s bachelor’s degree in nursing can be completed in four years, even when students participate in athletics and other co-curricular activities.
Curriculum and clinicals
The four-year plan of study (PDF) for Northwestern’s nursing program includes a recommended freshman-year seminar to help prospective nursing students explore their calling to the health care professions. The program concludes with a senior capstone seminar to help students reflect on their nursing education as they formulate a final thesis that explores infusing their nursing career with shalom.
Northwestern’s nursing program also includes:
- A state-of-the-art nursing arts laboratory with human patient simulators
- More than 800 hours of clinical experience
- A study abroad cross-cultural, nursing missions course
- Computer-based testing and review program
- Advanced electronic portfolio resources
- Nurses' Christian Fellowship Chapter
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