Saint Mary’s places great value on having a highly trained and educated nursing staff. As the journey to achieving Magnet status is an important goal for us, we strive to have our nurses BSN prepared. The BSN Completion program through the University of Detroit Mercy McAuley School of Nursing is one way of helping them get there. This program is a flexible option for registered nurses who have completed diploma or associate degree programs. It emphasizes required competencies including leadership and management skills, health promotion, risk reduction and illness and disease management strategies for clients, families, communities and health care economics.

Additional skills students obtain include the effective use of evidence-based protocols to ensure delivery of cost-effective and appropriate care, utilization of information technology in clinical settings to manage and make clinical decisions, and care management strategies with enhanced understanding of health care economics and policies.

Entry Requirements Include:

• Meeting university entrance requirements
• A minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5
• Providing evidence of graduation from an NLN-accredited or Michigan-approved program
• Home state licensure to practice as an RN

Students can earn their Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree by attending class one night a week. Support for the adult learner is built into the program by focusing objectives for the practicing Registered Nurse, employing nursing faculty who are skilled in educating adults, following a nursing cohort model of instruction (students start in the program together), and allowing students to the program as a group.

For a detailed brochure on the BSN Completion program contact at (616) 913-1421.