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In just 15 months, the Second Degree Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing will help you leverage your existing bachelor’s degree to fast-track your path to becoming a nurse.

Why Earn Your Second Degree Accelerated BSN at Sacred Heart?

Regardless of your previous area of study, this program’s unique, year-round format will guide you to develop the skills and knowledge you need to provide the highest quality nursing care to patients in a variety of clinical settings.

The Second Degree Accelerated BSN program follows similar nursing coursework to our traditional BS in Nursing program, but builds on your prior undergraduate degree and focuses exclusively on the nursing curriculum. This format allows you to fully immerse yourself in nursing.

In this program, you will also:

• Gain a liberal education for Baccalaureate Generalist nursing practice, with knowledge from biological, behavioral, social, and nursing sciences
• Evaluate and provide safe, high-quality health care in a variety of settings
• Learn to make clinical judgments based on knowledge and evidence, and developed through clinical reasoning and hands-on experience
• Participate in quality and patient safety initiatives that impact patient care
• Gain clinical experience in a variety of settings, including extended care facilities, acute-care hospitals, daycare centers, visiting nurses associations, and local community clinics
• Study year-round, beginning in May and ending in August of the following year
• Learn from faculty who are active professionals, have received state and national recognition, and hold doctoral degrees or are certified nurse practitioners
• Use computer information management systems and patient care technology to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of patient care
• Understand the impact of health care policy, finance, and regulatory environments on nursing and healthcare
• Improve collaboration and communication skills and understand how these skills improve patient outcomes
• Learn in five state-of-the-art nursing labs and a high-fidelity simulation center that includes a bedside-care lab and eight simulation rooms to replicate a variety of healthcare settings
• Study clinical prevention and population health
• Learn to provide effective, patient-centric care by fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making
• Use online testing platforms that prepare you for the R.N. licensure examination
• Support health promotion, and disease and injury prevention activities, to improve individual and population health
• Embrace the core values of professionalism that support optimal health and wellness outcomes
• Study in a program that is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education