UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT FORT KENT
RN to BSN Online Degree Program
This affordable online program prepares you to provide superior patient care and develop abilities that will position you as a leading member of a healthcare team.
RN to BSN Program Overview
Insights into our RN to BSN online degree program
The RN to BSN online program at UMFK is designed for working nurses like you, giving you the knowledge you need to advance personally and professionally. This program emphasizes the clinical reasoning that drives a culture of safety to prevent risk of harm to patients, colleagues, and the environment while enhancing your ability to use evidence-based practice to make decisions for quality outcomes.
This accredited, 100% online Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing program is designed for affordability – there are no additional fees. Plus, your schedule will never be interrupted with campus visits so you can maintain the work/life balance you need. Prepare to provide the best in patient care and make a greater difference in your community by utilizing the flexibility of 7-week online courses to earn your degree.
Learning Outcomes (Student Learning/Program Outcomes)
To successfully complete the nursing major, each graduate will demonstrate achievement of essential nursing student learning outcomes, which includes:
- Professionalism: demonstrates accountability as a life-long learner for the delivery of evidence-based nursing care.
- Leadership: demonstrates leadership in the professional practice setting through accountability, influence, change management, and collaboration with others in a way that will facilitate the establishment and achievement of shared goals
- Patient-Centered Care: enters into a holistic, compassionate, respectful partnership with the patient and family that facilitates shared decision-making, recognizing consumer preferences, values, and needs in providing age and culturally appropriate, coordinated, safe, and effective care
- Evidence-Based Practice (EBP): identifies, integrates, and evaluates current evidence and research findings coupled with clinical expertise and consideration of consumers' preferences, experience, and values to make practice decisions for quality outcomes
- Teamwork and Collaboration: practices effectively with the healthcare consumer, family, and inter-professional team(s), to build relationships and foster open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making
- Communication: communicates effectively, fostering mutual respect and shared decision making to enhance knowledge, experience, and health outcomes
- Systems-Based Practice: is knowledgeable and responsive to the changing healthcare system and demonstrates the ability to access resources in a safe, effective, and financially responsible manner to provide value based care
- Informatics and Technology: demonstrates proficiency in the use of technology and information systems to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and to support decision making for safe practice
- Safety: utilizes clinical reasoning and critical thinking that drives a culture of safety to prevent risk of harm to healthcare consumers, families, colleagues, and the environment
- Quality Improvement: contributes to evidence-based nursing practice by participating in improvement strategies/processes including the use of data to design, implement and evaluate outcomes to improve the quality and safety of healthcare systems
- Geriatrics: values the unique psychosocial, physical, and cultural attributes of the older adult in order to promote healthy aging and provide safe and effective care
Adopted from Massachusetts Department of Higher Education Nursing Initiative (2010), Nurse of the Future: Nursing Core Competencies and Maine Partners in Nursing (2013): Maine Nursing Core Competencies Revised and accepted May 2014
- Professionalism: demonstrates accountability as a life-long learner for the delivery of evidence-based nursing care.
- Leadership: demonstrates leadership in the professional practice setting through accountability, influence, change management, and collaboration with others in a way that will facilitate the establishment and achievement of shared goals
- Patient-Centered Care: enters into a holistic, compassionate, respectful partnership with the patient and family that facilitates shared decision-making, recognizing consumer preferences, values, and needs in providing age and culturally appropriate, coordinated, safe, and effective care
- Evidence-Based Practice (EBP): identifies, integrates, and evaluates current evidence and research findings coupled with clinical expertise and consideration of consumers' preferences, experience, and values to make practice decisions for quality outcomes
- Teamwork and Collaboration: practices effectively with the healthcare consumer, family, and inter-professional team(s), to build relationships and foster open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making
- Communication: communicates effectively, fostering mutual respect and shared decision making to enhance knowledge, experience, and health outcomes
- Systems-Based Practice: is knowledgeable and responsive to the changing healthcare system and demonstrates the ability to access resources in a safe, effective, and financially responsible manner to provide value based care
- Informatics and Technology: demonstrates proficiency in the use of technology and information systems to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and to support decision making for safe practice
- Safety: utilizes clinical reasoning and critical thinking that drives a culture of safety to prevent risk of harm to healthcare consumers, families, colleagues, and the environment
- Quality Improvement: contributes to evidence-based nursing practice by participating in improvement strategies/processes including the use of data to design, implement and evaluate outcomes to improve the quality and safety of healthcare systems
- Geriatrics: values the unique psychosocial, physical, and cultural attributes of the older adult in order to promote healthy aging and provide safe and effective care
Adopted from Massachusetts Department of Higher Education Nursing Initiative (2010), Nurse of the Future: Nursing Core Competencies and Maine Partners in Nursing (2013): Maine Nursing Core Competencies Revised and accepted May 2014
Accreditation
The nursing program at the University of Maine at Fort Kent is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, 655 K Street, NW, Suite 750, Washington, DC 20001, 202-887-6791.
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Tuition
Learn more about our affordable tuition
With affordable, pay-as-you-go tuition, the online UMFK RN to BSN program provides a quality degree for a great value. There is no application fee, and the tuition shown includes all fees.
Tuition breakdown:
| Program | Per Credit Hour | Per Course | Per Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| RN to BSN | $300 | $ | $9,000 |
*The $9,000 Total Tuition shown is for the 30 credits of nursing courses only. Students needing additional general education courses will be charged the same $300 per credit hour rate.
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Calendar
Important dates for our students
The RN to BSN online program is delivered in an accessible format ideal for working nurses and conveniently features six dates to begin each year.
Now enrolling:
| Term | Start Date | App Deadline | Document Deadline | Registration Deadline | Tuition Deadline | Class End Date | Term Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 1 | 1/17/23 | 1/3/23 | 1/3/23 | 1/11/23 | 1/12/23 | 3/3/23 | 7 weeks |
| Spring 2 | 3/20/23 | 3/6/23 | 3/6/23 | 3/14/23 | 3/15/23 | 5/5/23 | 7 weeks |
| Summer 1 | 5/15/23 | 5/1/23 | 5/1/23 | 5/9/23 | 5/10/23 | 6/30/23 | 7 weeks |
| Summer 2 | 7/3/23 | 6/19/23 | 6/19/23 | 6/27/23 | 6/28/23 | 8/18/23 | 7 weeks |
You won’t get left behind with UMFK’s extremely affordable, pay-by-the-course tuition and accommodating, 7-week online courses.
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Admissions
Follow our streamlined RN to BSN admission requirements at UMFK
The admission process is the first step toward earning your online degree. Find out the requirements for the RN to BSN online, what additional materials you need and where you should send them. An RN license is required for admission into this program.
The UMFK online RN to BSN program is currently offered to students located in AK, AZ, CA, CT, FL, GA, HI, ID, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NE, NH, NY, ND, OH, OK, OR, RI, SC, SD, TX, and UT.
Admission Requirements:
The admission process is the first step toward earning your degree and expanding your opportunities. We've streamlined the process to help you get started quickly and easily. Students interested in the RN to BSN online program must meet the following requirements for admission.
- ADN/ASN from an accredited university, with minimum 2.5 overall GPA OR diploma in nursing
- Official transcripts from all colleges/universities attended and any other required documents
- Current, unencumbered RN license*
- *If students have not received the results of their NCLEX exam, they can take up to three courses as matriculated students. Students must demonstrate completion of NCLEX by the end of the second class or request an extension thru the AAA committee to continue in the program.
Official transcripts, test scores, and other materials that come from third-party sources may be emailed or mailed from the granting institution(s) to:
Email address: [email protected]
Mailing address:
Application Processing Center
PO Box 412
Bangor, ME 04402-0412
Courses
The topics you'll study in our RN to BSN online program
The RN to BSN online program features 7-week, asynchronous courses. Each of our fall, spring and summer semesters includes two 7-week terms. Most students take 1 course per 7-week term, but students are welcome to take 2 or more if they want to complete their BSN sooner. Two courses per semester qualifies a student to apply for student loans.
Students receive a block transfer of 69 credits upon completion of the associate's degree or diploma in nursing and proof of an active RN license. The core nursing curriculum is comprised of 30 semester credit hours.
Students may need up to 21 additional general education credits. A total of 120 credits are required to complete your Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree.*
Students with a prior bachelor’s degree will have their general education courses waived.
Students must complete 30 credits at UMFK to be awarded their BSN degree.
The complete list of courses is below.
Students must take the following courses. NUR 312 must be taken first.
These courses are available for students who have completed the required courses and still need to reach 120 credit hours in order to graduate.
General Education Requirements (21 hours)
In accordance with UMFK policy, all baccalaureate candidates must complete the following General Education requirements. Transcript analysis will be conducted to determine if courses taken prior to admission to UMFK are congruent with the courses of the General Education program.
| General Education Credit |
Credit Hours |
General Education Area |
|---|---|---|
| English Composition II |
3 credits |
Communication |
| Statistics (if not previously completed) |
3 credits |
Quantitative Reasoning |
| Literature |
3 credits |
Literature |
| History |
3 credits |
History |
| Language |
3 credits |
Foreign Language |
| Art/Music |
3 credits |
Visual and Performing Arts or Philosophy |
| Computer Science |
3 credits |
Information Fluency |
*Based on 120 undergraduate credit hours needed for graduation. Total program cost varies based on number of transfer credit hours accepted. Students may take electives upon advisement to complete 120 undergraduate credit hours.
**NUR 342 is offered as a 1, 2, or 3 credit course, depending on the number of credits still needed to meet the program requirement.
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