B.S. in Nursing

Contact Us

Donna Driscoll
Clinical Professor
dldriscoll@plymouth.edu

Karen Coughlin
Academic Operations Manager
kacoughlin@plymouth.edu

A supportive learning environment for nursing students in the classroom, clinical arena, and the greater community.

The Department of Nursing’s mission is to provide nursing curricula that supports excellence in nursing education. We educate future nursing leaders to provide innovative, high quality, accessible health care to the geographic regions of Plymouth and beyond. With a 100% NCLEX pass rate and recognition as the #1 Nursing Program in New Hampshire by registerednursing.org, we teach practices that promote the health and well-being of diverse individuals, families, communities, populations, and systems. We graduate competent nurses who make sound clinical judgments, communicate effectively, and make decisions using the best evidence available, to practice in an interdisciplinary global healthcare environment.

Our vision is to prepare nurses to deliver patient-centered care as members of an interdisciplinary team, emphasizing teamwork and collaboration, safety, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics.

The Plymouth State University Nursing program is approved by the New Hampshire Board of Nursing. The Baccalaureate degree program in Nursing at Plymouth State University is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (http://www.aacnnursing.org/CCNE).

Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate accountability for practicing nursing within established moral, legal, ethical, regulatory, and humanistic principles.
• Demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care and the ability to effectively call on system resources to provide care that is of optimal quality and value.
• Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
• Identify, evaluate, and use the best current evidence coupled with clinical expertise and consideration of patients’ preferences, experience and values to make practice decisions.
• Function effectively within nursing and interdisciplinary teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, shared decision making, team learning, and development.
• Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both individual performance and system effectiveness.
• Use data to monitor outcomes and care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care.
• Influence the behavior of individuals or groups of individuals within their environment in a way that will facilitate the establishment and acquisition/achievement of shared goals.
• Deliver holistic nursing care and advocate for health promotion and disease prevention strategies at the individual, family, community, and global levels.
• Demonstrate effective communication skills with clients that foster mutual respect and shared decision making to enhance patient satisfaction and health outcomes.

RN to BS in Nursing Option

This new option enables working nurses to earn their bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) degree. Prospective students who already have an associate degree and are licensed as registered nurses (RN) in any state can transfer between 60 to 90 credits toward the 120 total credits required to graduate at PSU.

While nursing classes will be held in-person at the PSU campus, there is also an option to attend remotely via Zoom, which will provide flexibility for working nurses and out-of-state students. Certain general education courses are also available as online courses.