WESTMONT DOWNTOWN | GROTENHUIS NURSING
Program Information
糖心原创 offers a fast track for first-year and transfer students interested in nursing. Complete three years of general education and science courses on 糖心原创鈥檚 Montecito campus, and you can apply to enter the ABSN program as you finish your first bachelor鈥檚 degree. You receive your first degree at the end of the first semester and complete your ABSN in one additional year. You鈥檒l earn two bachelor鈥檚 degrees in four and a half years. 糖心原创 financial aid is available for the two degrees.
Program Learning Outcomes
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Knowledge for Nursing Practice: Apply nursing theory and research-based knowledge, drawing from nursing, arts, humanities, and sciences, to exercise clinical judgment aligned with the nursing process across diverse care settings while integrating Christian principles of compassion and empathy.
2.
Person-centered Care: Communicate effectively and compassionately in the assessing, analyzing, planning, delivery and evaluation of high quality person-centered care. Create patient plans of care and provide care that is culturally congruent, acknowledges the patient as a partner in care and incorporates the family support system and healthcare team.
3.
Population Health: Integrate public health principles and competencies for population management, collaborating with various stakeholders and applying current community/public health frameworks to develop, implement, and evaluate community-based activities.
4.
Scholarship for Nursing Practice: Access and critically appraise evidence-based studies for practical application within diverse populations and healthcare settings, guided by Christian ethics and values.
5.
Quality and Safety: Apply quality improvement principles, contributing to a culture promoting patient safety, identifying actual or potential unsafe work environments.
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Interprofessional Partnerships: Collaborate with the interprofessional team, patients, families, and communities, employing established tools and techniques to improve health outcomes while upholding Christian values of teamwork, empathy, and respect.
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Systems-based Practice: Understand the U.S Healthcare system and its impact on the delivery of equitable healthcare across diverse populations and settings, recognizing the relationships between organizations, external systems, and payers.
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Information and Healthcare Technology: Utilize information and communication technologies to gather, document, and review data, ensuring safe, ethical, and professional care across diverse populations and settings among providers, patients, and all system levels.
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Professionalism: Exhibits professionalism in nursing practice, emphasizing competence, honesty, integrity, and respect for diverse values and beliefs. Cultivating a strong sense of professional accountability and identity, embracing the nursing profession, while complying with relevant laws, policies, and regulations.
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Personal, Professionals, Leadership Development: Display actions aligned with a capacity to engage in self-reflection and servant leadership, continued lifelong learning through a spirit of inquiry across the four spheres of care, and an ongoing commitment to personal well-being.
Sample Schedule
- NUR 211: Fundamentals for Nursing Practice 鈥 4 units
- NUR 210: Pathophysiology for Nursing 鈥 2 units
- NUR 213: Pharmacology for Nursing 鈥 4 units
- PHI 200: Nursing for Human Flourishing 鈥 3 units
- SOC 200: Understanding My Neighbor: Society, Culture, and Health 鈥 3 units
- RS 010 NUR/RS 020 NUR* 鈥 4 units
*GE offered on Nursing Campus
- NUR 230: Beginning Medical/Surgical/Geriatric (MSG) Nursing 鈥 3 units
- NUR 265: Psych/Mental Health Nursing 鈥 2 units
- NUR 280: Nursing and the Liberal Arts 鈥 2 units
- RS 010 NUR/RS 020 NUR* 鈥 4 units
- HIS 010 NUR* 鈥 4 units
*GE offered on Nursing Campus
- NUR 270: Intermediate MSG Nursing 鈥 3 units
- NUR 240: Maternal/Child Health Nursing 鈥 2 units
- NUR 250: Pediatric Nursing 鈥 2 units
- NUR 260: Evidence-based Practice for Nursing 鈥 2 units
- SP 200: Spanish for Healthcare 鈥 3 units
- NUR 285: Advanced MSG Nursing 鈥 3 units
- NUR 290: Public Health Nursing 鈥 2 units
- NUR 295: Nursing Leadership 鈥 2 units
- NUR 275: Professional Nursing Roles 鈥 2 units
- + Intensive Care
- + Emergency Department and Trauma Services
- + Surgical Service
- + Acute Patient Care
- + Ambulatory Patient Care
- + Home Patient Care
- + Public Health Nursing
- + Case Management
- + Discharge Planning
- + Nursing Education
- + Nursing Informatics
- + Nursing Leadership
- + Nursing Research
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED
COHORT START DATES
2026 | 2027 | 2028 | |
Spring | JANUARY 12 | JANUARY 11 | JANUARY 10 |
Summer | MAY 11 | MAY 10 | MAY 8 |
Fall | AUGUST 31 | AUGUST 30 | AUGUST 28 |
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WESTMONT ABSN ALUMS HAVE GONE ON TO LEADING MEDICAL CENTERS LOCALLY AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
鈥溙切脑粹檚 nursing program equipped me for my first nursing job in the ICU at Cottage more than I could have imagined. I had a job offer immediately after completing the program! The nursing instructors invest and care about their students and our futures as nurses. Starting out in critical care as a new nurse is not easy, but thanks to my amazing instructors I have felt prepared and confident in my role.鈥
鈥 Grace 鈥22, ABSN graduate
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