As a registered nurse (RN), you have seen just about everything the healthcare world has to offer. From the workplace policies that no longer serve a purpose to emerging innovations in healthcare, you see opportunities to improve healthcare delivery services and patient outcomes within your organization. What’s needed now are the leadership skills, research skills, healthcare insights, and credentialing certifications to make a career move to help your organization.

Prepare to take the next step in your nursing career with a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) from Keiser University. This program is filled with the theory, evidence-based research, healthcare insights, and practical skills you need to make a meaningful impact for your nursing organization and your career.

The Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program is offered in a format that allows students with a previous college degree to complete the program of study in four semesters (after general education credits and prerequisites are evaluated and/or completed).

Graduates will be prepared to provide compassionate, patient-centered, culturally competent nursing care to individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations in a variety of settings, using evidence-based knowledge and skills related to wellness, health promotion, illness, disease management, and end-of-life care to improve healthcare outcomes. They will practice in partnership with patients as members and leaders of interprofessional healthcare teams, utilizing the most current healthcare technologies. Successful completion of this program qualifies graduates to sit for the NCLEX-RN licensing exam.

Prepare for a career as a medical assistant and play an integral part of a physician’s health care team. Learn diverse skills in a hands-on environment and develop the skills needed for this versatile position.

Keiser University’s Associate of Science degree in Medical Assisting prepares students to perform medical assisting duties under the direct supervision of a physician, including preparing examination rooms, taking vital signs, assisting in minor surgical procedures, giving injections, performing venipuncture, assisting in laboratory operations, performing urinalysis, pregnancy testing, blood sugar, and various other waived laboratory tests, taking x-rays and administering electrocardiograms.

Medical assistants also learn to function in an administrative capacity, including patient communications, maintaining patient records, billing, scheduling appointments, ordering supplies and processing insurance claims.

Keiser University’s Associate of Science degree in Nursing prepares students to practice professional nursing. Professional nursing involves the performance of those acts requiring substantial specialized knowledge, judgment and nursing skill based upon applied principles of biological, physical, psychological and social sciences. The nursing practice of a professional nurse includes but is not limited to:

• Assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care;
• Health teaching and counseling of individuals who may be ill, injured or infirm;
• Promotion of wellness, maintenance of health, and prevention of illness of others;
• Administration of treatments and medications as prescribed in accordance with the standards of nursing practice.

Keiser University’s Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing (RN to BSN) is a degree completion program for registered nurses.  This program emphasizes critical thinking, leadership, management, research, physical assessment, and health promotion across a variety of community-based healthcare settings.  The curriculum accentuates cultural, political, economic, and social issues that affect patients and influence healthcare delivery through both online classroom and clinical components. The RN to BSN Curriculum is designed to be completed in as few as 12 months.

The framework of the RN to BSN program includes the broad competency areas of knowledge, the elements of critical thinking, skills performance, collaboration, caring and professionalism.  Each of these areas are reflected in program outcomes that build upon prior learning and incorporate competencies as outlined in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s (AACN) Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice and the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) Scope and Standards of Nursing Practice.

Early in your career, you made a commitment to provide high-quality nursing care to those who need it. From injuries and illness to chronic health issues, you do your best to comfort, communicate and heal. It all started with an education, likely a Bachelor of Science (BSN) to fulfill your collegiate nursing education requirements and, perhaps, led to a Registered Nurse (RN) designation. Now, you’re ready for more, an advanced degree to help you take your nursing career to the next level.

Keiser University is here to help. Our Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree program offers advanced skills and knowledge in a nurse generalist program to help you keep your career options open, from nurse leadership position within your healthcare system to the role of nurse educator with an accredited nursing program.