Find the passion you’ve been missing – and unlimited career options – with Cabarrus College’s Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing, designed for those with a bachelor’s degree in any field.
Program Mission
Cultivate competent, caring nurse professionals through exemplary education and promotion of lifelong learning.
Program Highlights
- Build on your existing bachelor’s degree to earn a degree in nursing
- Finish in as little as four semesters
- Flexible degree offers work/life balance
- Immersive learning on an Atrium Health hospital-based campus
- Individualized instruction in small classes
- Hands-on clinical experience starts as early as first semester, enabling you to apply concepts learned in class right away
- Additional skills practice in high-tech simulation labs on campus and at Atrium Health
- Affordable: generous financial aid
- Affiliated with Atrium Health:
- Preferred access to Atrium Health clinical sites
- Learn from the region’s most experienced healthcare professionals
- Access to leading-edge technology
- Pipeline to jobs in one of the country’s largest healthcare systems
Program Goals
- Graduates will achieve an annual NCLEX-RN pass rate for first-time writers equal or greater than the annual national average for BSN graduates, but not less than 80%.
- Seventy percent (70%) of incoming students will graduate within 150% of the advertised program length of program (150% = 2.5 years)
- Ninety percent (90%) of graduates will be employed as a registered nurse within 1 year after graduation.
- Ninety percent (90%) of graduates responding to the Graduate Survey will self-evaluate they successfully achieved the Program Student Learning Outcomes (PSLOs).
- Ninety percent (90%) of graduate employers responding to the Employer Survey will evaluate the graduate as successfully achieving the Program Student Learning Outcomes (PSLOs).
Upon completion of the Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate core nursing concepts of compassion, caring, and advocacy with respect to unique client values, needs, and resources.
- Utilize evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning to deliver professional prioritized nursing care to clients in a variety of settings across various populations.
- Participate in intentional, collaborative interdisciplinary healthcare teams composed of clients, families, and other healthcare professionals to improve outcomes.
- Incorporate health information and information technology to promote quality improvement and drive clinical decision-making.
- Integrate scientific nursing knowledge with knowledge from other disciplines to achieve optimum patient outcomes and quality care for all.
- Examine the impact of health care policy, finance, and regulatory environments on equitable care delivery and improvement of population health outcomes.
- Incorporate high reliability tools and emerging principles of safety science to improve health outcomes and prevent harm while fostering a culture of safety.
- Evaluate the impact of organizational structure and multiple systems on delivery, access, and quality of care.
- Develop an identity that embraces professional nursing values, emotional intelligence, and moral courage to advance health equity and social justice.
- Demonstrate self-awareness of personal needs for growth through identification of strategies to promote professional maturity.
Upon graduation from the ABSN program and verification by Cabarrus College that education requirements are met, students are eligible to apply to take the National Council Licensure Examination - Registered Nurse (NCLEX-RN). Graduates passing the exam and meeting board requirements will receive the legal title of Registered Nurse (RN) from the North Carolina Board of Nursing (NCBON). Should graduates be unsuccessful on the exam, they may repeat the exam at subsequent intervals.
As Atrium Health and many other healthcare organizations seek nurses with a bachelor’s degree, getting a ABSN offers many benefits:
- More varied employment opportunities
- Career progression and increased responsibly
- Opens the door to professional certification in a nursing specialty
- Foundation for pursing a master’s degree
