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ARTICLE III PROGRAM SPECIFICATION

Section 3 Degree Name

➢ The degree name shall be Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).

➢ To ensure the quality of the nursing graduate, the degree is conferred
upon completion of at least four-year BSN program offered in a college
or university duly recognized by the Commission on Higher Education.

Section 4 Program Description

➢ The BSN is a four-year program consisting of general education and

professional courses.
➢ Professional courses begin in the first year and threads through the
development of competencies up the fourth-year level.
➢ The BSN program provides an intensive nursing practicum that will refine
clinical skills from the first-year level to ensure basic clinical competencies
required of a beginning nurse practitioner.

Objective

➢ The BSN program aims to produce a fully functioning nurse who is able to
perform the competencies under each of the Key Areas of Responsibility
as enumerated in Article IV Section 5 herein.

Specific Careers/Professions/Occupations

➢ Graduates of this program as beginning nurse practitioner may pursue

the following career paths but not limited to:
• Clinical Nursing
• Community Health Nursing
• Private-duty Nursing
• Occupational Health Nursing
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• School Nursing
• Military Nursing
• Health Education
• Research
• Entrepreneurship

Allied Programs

➢ The BSN program is allied to the following health related programs:

• Medicine
• Dentistry
• Optometry
• Physical Therapy/Occupational Therapy
• Pharmacy
• Public Health
• Medical Technology
• Radiologic Technology
• Respiratory Therapy
• Nutrition and Dietetics
• Midwifery
• Speech Pathology

REFERENCE: CHED MEMORANDUM ORDER (CMO) No. 14, Series of 2009

SUBJECT: POLICIES AND STANDARDS FOR BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING

(BSN) PROGRAM