Online RN to B.S.N. Career Outlook

For Nurses, the Future Is Bright

Benedictine University’s online RN to B.S.N. prepares students to pursue in-demand positions and seek higher nursing salaries in Illinois and nationwide. You will graduate with the competencies needed to become a leader within health care settings and provide patients with exceptional evidence-based care.

No matter the nursing career path you follow, the RN to B.S.N. online program will position you for excellent opportunities. Simply put, you will increase your ability to gain — and retain — your ideal nursing job.

• Build skills in our CCNE-accredited program
• Learn from supportive instructor-mentors
• Earn your B.S.N. in 14 months

Build Advanced Competencies for Your Nursing Career

After completing our online RN to B.S.N. program, you will have the critical-thinking skills and knowledge necessary to assess patient needs with attention to their physical health and emotional well-being. The courses enable you to design and implement evidence-based plans for patient care, resulting in an enhanced quality of life for your patients and their families. If you plan to move into supervisory and management roles, our program will prepare you to influence health care policy and bring about lasting change.

• Registered nurse employment is projected to increase at a faster-than-average rate from 2023 to 2033.¹
• In 2023, about 70% of employers preferred for nursing job candidates to have a B.S.N..⁵
• About 72% of registered nurses had at least a bachelor’s degree in 2022.⁶

What You’ll Learn

• Incorporate critical thinking, decision making and clinical reasoning skills in providing quality care to individuals, families, groups and communities.
• Translate research findings to foster the delivery of evidence-based nursing practice.
• Utilize information and/or technology to deliver quality patient care in a variety of settings.
• Use leadership skills and knowledge of health care, financial and regulatory systems to advance high-quality, safe professional practice.
• Demonstrate effective inter-professional communication and collaboration to provide quality, person-centered care.
• Examine principles of prevention and health promotion to improve equitable health outcomes for individuals, families, groups and communities.
• Cultivate a professional nursing identity that embraces the values of the profession including advancement as a leader and lifelong learning.
• Demonstrate evolving competence in a professional role within a dynamic, diverse, global society.

Skills You’ll Gain

• Advancing perspectives of professional nursing
• Designing and delivering evidence-based practice
• Impacting health promotion for families, communities and older adults
• Influencing the creation and implementation of health care policy
• Nurse leadership skills