ASN-to-BSN

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Overview

Advance your nursing career with a flexible ASN-to-BSN program designed for licensed registered nurses who want to build leadership skills, strengthen clinical judgment, and expand their impact across patients, communities and healthcare systems.

Guided by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) essentials, Brenau’s ASN-to-BSN curriculum builds on the knowledge and experience you already bring as a practicing RN. Rather than repeating foundational nursing content, the program focuses on baccalaureate-level practice in evidence-based care, population health, leadership, informatics, ethics, and systems thinking.

Why choose Brenau’s ASN-to-BSN program?

  • Designed specifically for working registered nurses
  • Fully online coursework with flexible full-time and part-time pathways, so you can continue to work while you advance your career
  • Builds on prior nursing education and clinical experience
  • Emphasizes leadership, evidence-based practice, population health, informatics, and quality improvement
  • Includes community-based clinical and capstone experiences that connect coursework to real practice settings
  • Supports preparation for expanded professional responsibility in today’s rapidly changing healthcare environment

What you’ll learn

The curriculum is organized around core content areas that support advancement to baccalaureate nursing practice:

  • Enhanced nursing science for clinical judgment
  • Evidence-based practice and scholarship
  • Leadership, management and professionalism
  • Population health and community/public health nursing
  • Systems, finance, and healthcare delivery models
  • Informatics and technology
  • Quality and safety science
  • Interprofessional collaboration
  • Liberal education and professional identity

Student opportunities

  • Strengthen clinical judgment for complex patient and population needs
  • Apply evidence to practice and quality improvement efforts
  • Expand your understanding of community and population health
  • Develop leadership and policy awareness for professional nursing roles
  • Build informatics and healthcare technology competencies
  • Complete a leadership-focused capstone experience that synthesizes BSN-level learning

Additional program details

FAQs

ASN-to-BSN, Bachelor's Degrees

It is a BSN completion program for licensed RNs who want to advance to baccalaureate-level nursing practice.

ASN-to-BSN, Bachelor's Degrees

Coursework is online, but clinical or community-based applied experiences are completed in person.

ASN-to-BSN, Bachelor's Degrees

Students may complete the program in 3 semesters full-time or 4 semesters part-time, depending on transfer credit and course planning.

ASN-to-BSN, Bachelor's Degrees

Applicants should hold an ADN or ASN, have an active unencumbered RN license, meet prerequisite requirements, and meet the minimum GPA and admission standards.

ASN-to-BSN, Bachelor's Degrees

The BSN requires 120 total semester hours, including challenge credit, transfer/prerequisite coursework, and Brenau coursework.

ASN-to-BSN, Bachelor's Degrees

Thirty credit-hours must be completed at Brenau.