BSN Program
To ensure the quality of nursing graduates, the degree is conferred upon completion of at least a four-year BSN program offered by a college, professional institution, or university duly recognized by the Commission on Higher Education. In the Philippines, the BSN degree is equivalent to Level 6 of the Philippine Qualifications Framework.
BSN is a four-year program consisting of general education and professional courses. Professional courses, with emphasis on the nursing concepts with corresponding Related Learning Experiences (RLE), are threaded through from the first year through fourth year. The BSN program provides an intensive nursing practicum that will refine further the nursing competencies to ensure achievement of the BSN program outcomes required of an entry-level nurse.
The BSN Program aims to develop a professional nurse who is able to assume entry-level positions in health facilities or community settings. The professional nurse is capable of providing safe, humane, quality, and holistic care to individuals in varying age, gender, and health-illness status; healthy or at-risk families; population groups; and community; singly or in collaboration with other health care providers, to promote health, prevent illness, restore health, alleviate suffering, and provide end-of-life care.
Career Opportunities
After completion of all academic requirements of the program, graduates of the BSN should be able to practice nursing profession in the hospital, clinic, community, school setting, company, corporations and many more. Graduates of BSN are not only confined within the hospital setting. Nursing professionals can choose from a variety of exciting career opportunities, depending on their educational background, interests, and desired level of practice. Many find positions in hospitals, clinics, private practices, and assisted living facilities. Professionals in many nursing disciplines enjoy lucrative salary opportunities, including some of the highest-paying roles in the field. From entry-level nurse to doctoral-level professor, nursing provides a diverse range of career options.
Nurses are hands-on health care providers that concentrate on providing highly personalized care. With the degree being in-demand, the opportunities for graduates of BSN continues to expand particularly now, due to the growing prevalence and emergence of various diseases and ailments and understaffed in most hospitals and other institutions. More career options now exist for nurses than ever before. These positions can be found in rural or urban settings, in private, public, or governmental facilities, and they give the freedom to select which types of patients you want to work with.
Career Path
- Licensed Registered Nurse
- Public Health Nurse
- Clinical Nurse or Hospital Nurse
- Medical Surgical Nurse
- Nurse Midwife
- School Health Nurse
- Military Nurse
- Nurse Educator