Notre Dame offers three ways to secure a BSN:
All qualified applicants are admitted to the University as nursing majors from day one.
Enter the University in your sophomore year as a nursing major to complete general education requirements, courses in the liberal arts, and all support courses prior to taking junior-level nursing courses.
To enter the University in your junior year, you must apply for acceptance. Male nursing students may also apply to transfer into the entry-level BSN program in the Junior year.
Small class sizes, faculty mentoring, and hands-on experiences offer an environment of individualized learning while clinicals, service-learning, and study abroad provide opportunities to transform the world.
As a nursing student, you will have research opportunities both in the classroom and in clinical practice.
In Nursing, we teach the value of advocacy; advocacy for patients and their families. Research assignments are often built on this outcome and the School of Nursing’s mission overall.
You will have an opportunity to gain experience in a clinical setting at the start of your junior year, and you will take courses with a clinical component every semester from that point forward.
In clinicals, you will have a chance to apply concepts learned in the classroom by working with patients and their families under the supervision of a clinical instructor.
In addition to clinical sites, you will also spend time in our state-of-the-art simulation labs, which allow you to practice your response to realistic medical situations in a safe environment.
You may choose to participate in a mission trip to Haiti as part of the Community Health Clinical Experience.