Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Our Mission

Concordia University believes in fostering clinical competence and reflective compassion to prepare nurses who will promote health, offer expert bedside care, and provide leadership within healthcare organizations and the community.

Your Future in Nursing

For individuals with a true concern for the well being of others, nursing offers diverse and exciting opportunities in the rapidly changing healthcare system. A Bachelor’s of Science degree in Nursing is for you if you imagine yourself in any of the following situations:

  • Teaching an adolescent new diabetic how to manage his illness and also enjoy being a teenager.
  • Comforting a family whose grandmother is dying.
  • Adjusting the technologies and intravenous medications of a patient after heart surgery.
  • Working closely with an interdisciplinary team planning the rehabilitation of a middle aged man after a stroke.
  • Making a home nursing visit to a newborn infant and his young mother who is trying to stay off of methamphetamine.
  • Relieving the suffering of a cancer patient receiving chemotherapy.
  • Immunizing children, treating injuries and infections, delivering babies, and promoting nutrition and basic health concepts among the women of Senegal.
  • Saving the life of a child just hit by a car.
  • Teaching and counseling with the parents of a young adult newly diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Uniquely Concordia

Fundamental to the Concordia education is the opportunity to deepen your spiritual roots. Concordia offers a caring community that deliberately encourages students and faculty to reach out to each other. Our classes are small and individualized help is available. The practice of compassion and development of a life of Christian service is threaded throughout the curriculum. From the very first course, Concordia emphasizes sensitive interpersonal communication that deliberately deepens understanding of the human experience of illness and suffering. Students will learn to promote health, as well as nurse the sick. Our students succeed because they look beyond the symptoms, the diagnosis, and the therapies to see and know the persons who need their care. The Concordia nursing program is also distinguished by its emphasis on building strong clinical skills so all first year nursing students will be proficient in the performance of common hands-on nursing procedures. Technical competence and clinical reasoning continue to be systematically developed in the second year. Our graduates will be strengthened to advocate for patients and become healthcare leaders for the transformation of society.

Start Date

Concordia’s nursing program begins in the summer with a nursing course in fundamental nursing interventions and basic communication skills. Professional nursing courses continue into fall the first year with courses in pathophysiology and pharmacology, clinical nursing, health promotion, and introduction to professional nursing.

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