2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog Nursing
Admission/Retention Requirements
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Student Health Requirements: Nursing is a rigorous profession requiring physical flexibility and mobility (i.e. lifting patients, moving equipment, and responding quickly in emergency situations). Students are expected to receive a physical examination upon acceptance to the program. Awareness of one鈥檚 physical limitations is vital in ensuring patient safety. Compliance with health and immunization requirements is expected of all undergraduate students. Any student needing to arrange a reasonable accommodation for a documented disability should contact Student Access and Accommodation Services at:
350 Fell Hall
438-5853
Fax: (309) 438-7713
Email: ableisu@ilstu.edu.
Criminal Background Screenings: All students enrolled in the Mennonite College of Nursing undergraduate program will be required to complete criminal background screenings (including fingerprinting) prior to enrollment in designated clinical rotations. Students who have been convicted of committing or attempting to commit certain crimes specified in the Health Care Worker Background Check Act (225 ILCS 46/25, et seq.) may be ineligible to continue in the nursing program.
Drug Screening: All students are required to undergo drug screening with negative results to maintain eligibility for the undergraduate nursing program.
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Honors in Nursing
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Nursing
Degree Offered: B.S.N.
Traditional Prelicensure BSN Sequence
Students are admitted to the program as Direct Admits in their freshman year at 麻豆传媒集团 or as External Transfers in their junior year.
Standards for Progress in the Major
Direct Admit students must maintain a 2.5 cumulative ISU GPA once they attempt 24 credit hours and a 2.0 cumulative ISU GPA once they begin , , , . Obtaining a D or F in any two nursing major courses or in the same nursing major course twice will result in a dismissal from the major and a major change to undeclared at 麻豆传媒集团.
External Transfer students must maintain a 2.0 cumulative ISU GPA once they begin , , , , , . Obtaining a D or F in any two nursing major courses or in the same nursing major course twice will result in a dismissal from the major and a major change to undeclared at 麻豆传媒集团.
All Traditional Prelicensure BSN students must maintain consecutive fall-spring enrollment. Any student who has not been enrolled in nursing coursework for more than one fall or spring semester or who has been academically dismissed must reapply to the College. Readmission will be granted on a selective basis. Application timeframes and processes are available from the nursing academic advisor.
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Accelerated BSN
The Accelerated BSN is designed for students with a previous bachelor鈥檚 degree in a non-nursing major, seeking to complete fast-tracked BSN.
Standards for Progress in the Major
Accelerated BSN students must maintain a 2.0 cumulative ISU GPA once they begin , , , , , . Obtaining a D or F in any two nursing major courses or in the same nursing major course twice will result in a dismissal from the major and a major change to undeclared at 麻豆传媒集团.
All Accelerated BSN students must maintain full-time enrollment upon summer admission. Any student who has not been enrolled in nursing coursework for more than one semester or who has been academically dismissed must reapply to the College. Readmission will be granted on a selective basis. Application timeframes and processes are available from the nursing academic advisor.
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RN to BSN Sequence
The RN to BSN Sequence is for students who are registered nurses seeking to complete the BSN degree. This program is offered fully online asynchronously.聽
34 hours of escrow credit from the student鈥檚 RN diploma school or Associates Degree in Nursing program are held until the student completes , , and . At that time the 34 hours of escrow credit are placed on the student鈥檚 transcript for credit of the following nursing courses: , , , , , and .
Standards for Progress in the Major
RN to BSN students must maintain a 2.0 cumulative ISU GPA. Obtaining a D or F in any two nursing major courses or in the same nursing major course twice will result in a dismissal from the major and a major change to undeclared at ISU.
External Transfers into this sequence may use all of the following courses in combination to fulfill the IAI Life Science requirement: or ; or /; or /. This waiver is also fulfilled if the student completed a Microbiology and two Anatomy/Physiology courses that transfer into 麻豆传媒集团 as electives.
Students in the RN to BSN Sequence are expected to follow an approved plan of study developed in consultation with the student at the time of admission. Any student who does not adhere to their approved plan of study, or who has been academically dismissed from the major, must reapply to the college. Readmission will be granted on a selective basis. Application timeframes and processes are available from the nursing academic advisor.