One nationally ranked program (No. 54), the University of San Francisco offers the BSN as part of its standard nursing program. The program is accredited by the National League of Nursing and is based on a wide ranging liberal arts curriculum that requires 128 credit hours for graduation. Students receive a broad education in liberal studies while engaging in clinical and classroom training for the nursing program. Aside from prerequisite courses in the basic sciences, students take courses in a wide range of topics such as nursing in the Jesuit tradition, pathophysiology, pharmacology, nutrition in the promotion, restoration and maintenance of health, nursing across the lifespan, nursing therapeutics and assessment of human responses, among others.
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117-1080
415-422-5555
www.usfca.edu
The bachelor of science degree is also offered by the San Diego State University school of nursing. SDSU offers the BSN degree in one of two formats. Students entering from high school enroll in the traditional four year liberal arts curriculum with the equivalent of two years of intensive nursing courses built into the degree plan. Students with an associate's degree who are registered nurses working in the field can enter the degree completion program leading to the bachelor's degree. The program at SDSU is also NLN accredited and offers courses in areas such as fundamentals of microbiology, human physiology, clinical pharmacology in nursing practice, gerontological nursing, psychiatric-mental health nursing and nursing leadership and management.
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Dr.
San Diego, CA 92182
619-594-5357
nursing.sdsu.edu
San Francisco State University is yet a third nationally ranked program (No. 115) in California offering the bachelor of science degree. Like the program at SDSU, the SFSU program offers two options for pursuing the BSN degree, the traditional track and the degree completion program. Similar to the programs at SDSU and the University of San Francisco, the SFSU curriculum covers a wide array of subject areas such as health assessment, foundations in nursing theory, nursing skills laboratory, pharmacology, pathophysiology, medical surgical nursing theory and practice, geriatric nursing, pediatric nursing, psychiatric nursing, nursing leadership and community/public health nursing.
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94132
415-338-1111
www.sfsu.edu