Nursing Major

ACEN Accreditation

The baccalaureate nursing program at Bowie State University is accredited by the:

Accreditation Commission for
Education in Nursing (ACEN)
3390 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 1400 Atlanta, GA 30326
(404) 975-5000

The most recent accreditation decision made by the ACEN Board of Commissioners for the baccalaureate nursing program is Continuing Accreditation. View the public information disclosed by the ACEN regarding this program.

For almost 30 years, Bowie State has cultivated naturally caring people into dynamic nursing professionals. The Bachelor of Science program, one of the most respected in the region, features a state-of-the-art simulation laboratory and community-based clinical placements to prepare students to deliver the best in client care. You’ll think critically, master new technologies, develop leadership skills and work collaboratively as part of a healthcare team to meet the needs of global communities, from your own neighborhood to developing regions abroad. Graduate with the education and skills necessary to begin a career providing exceptional service to those in need.

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What You’ll Learn
Career Paths
Special Opportunities

What sets us apart from other programs: our passion for increasing the number of qualified people of color in the nursing field. We believe well-rounded students make the best nurses and our liberal arts-based curriculum, infused with content from the social sciences, arts, humanities and computer science as well as health and science, opens up possibilities and opportunities in a broad range of careers.

As a nursing major, your end-of-program student learning outcomes (EPSLOs) will be the ability to:

Provide holistic, compassionate, and patient-centered care that is evidence-based and respects individual and community needs and improves outcomes.
Encourage collaborative problem solving to ensure health promotion and disease prevention strategies are grounded in critical thinking.
Integrate healthcare technology and digital tools, and informatics for patient-centered decision making.
Ensure nursing practice aligns with cultural, social, and ethical principles, emphasizing the understanding of diverse patient needs.
Encourage critical appraisal and application of research in practice, ensuring nursing interventions are guided by best evidence to improve outcomes.
Encourage advocacy in shaping healthcare policies and reinforcing adherence to ethical, legal, and policy-driven standards.
Promote adaptability and responsiveness to initiatives addressing social determinants of health and other global health challenges.

The baccalaureate nursing program prepares students to become generalists practicing within the ethical and legal framework of professional nursing. Your education will equip you to not only meet the changing healthcare needs of diverse populations, but it will also prepare you to be a leader.

Experience: We offer nursing students cutting-edge technology and virtual simulation, including simulation activities designed to enhance out-of-class learning for our nursing students. The resource center is equipped with resources and technology to simulate a daily nursing experience to actively engage critical thinking and independent judgment skills. Clinical faculty support students as they learn to transform knowledge to practice. Our students also benefit from virtual practice with SimMan and SimBaby, computer-generated medical scenarios that challenge students to properly manage client assessment procedures. A video camera feature allows students and their instructors to review their client management and applied skills. More importantly, the simulation resources center provides a non-threatening, simulated patient-care setting designed to build student confidence in client care. Our newest technological asset in the simulation resource center is Noel, a “pregnant” female mannequin demonstrating the full life cycle gestation and childbirth. With one-on-one support from qualified nursing faculty, students virtually experience the birthing process and learn the dynamics of a pregnancy and delivery.
Serve: To facilitate hands-on engagement, students complete clinical hours for credit in approved healthcare agencies, including hospitals, assisted living and long-term facilities. Specific agencies include:
Anne Arundel Medical Center
Baltimore Washington Medical Center
Children’s National Medical Center
City of Greenbelt – Assisted Living
Genesis Health Care-Bowie
Heart to Hand
Howard University Hospital
HSC Home Care
MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center
Sinai Hospital
University of Maryland – Capital Region Health
Veterans Administration Medical Center
Join: In the spirit of collaboration and camaraderie, we offer the opportunity for students to join two nursing student organizations. The Student Nurse Association, a pre-professional organization open to all nursing and pre-nursing students, provides students opportunities in service learning, scholarships, student leadership and collaboration with faculty. The second organization is an undergraduate chapter of Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc., a national organization of professional nurses and nursing students of diverse, cultural and educational backgrounds. Established in 2006, the Lambda Phi Beta,the Chi Eta Phi chapter, is actively involved in the fight against health disparities in our community by promoting health education and disease prevention. The chapter also provides toiletries and canned goods to people in need and raises funds for health organizations.