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The nursing courses in Liberty's RN to BSN follow a clear arc. NURS 325 Nursing Concepts opens the program with Benner's novice to expert model and the transition from diploma or associate preparation to baccalaureate practice. NURS 220 Advanced Nursing Communication builds academic and professional writing, with an APA paper assembled in stages and a group presentation.

The science and research courses come next: NURS 215 Post-licensure Pathophysiology, with a three-part research paper, and NURS 225 Research in Nursing, with an evidence-based practice project and a research critique. NURS 440 Community Health, at four to five credits, is the largest course in the program, with a community assessment, a family assessment and community clinical time.

The last stretch turns to leadership: NURS 445 Contemporary Issues covers genetics, aging and end-of-life care; NURS 489 Leadership in Nursing and NURS 491 Nursing Management cover servant leadership, change and management; NURS 492 is the capstone.

NURS 105 Medical Terminology and NURS 210 Health Assessment also appear in Liberty's nursing catalog and have pages here.

Liberty's RN to BSN is built for nurses already in practice, and its 8-week courses keep moving through a stretch of nights or a short-staffed month. The plan for each course is built around that: every written item drafted several days before its Canvas date, so reading and uploading it can wait for a day you are not on the unit.

The coordinator reads each course's published guide before quoting and checks your Canvas section, since Liberty notes that course content can change from term to term. Items that cannot be handed over, clinical or community hours, logs, tests and the short APA quizzes in some courses, are marked on the same calendar.

For students taking two courses in one sub-term, the plan places both on one calendar so the heavy weeks do not land together. Pairings such as NURS 215 with NURS 220, or NURS 489 with NURS 491, are common and manageable when planned that way.

For the whole program, the coordinator lays out the remaining nursing courses in the order your degree completion plan sets.

Writers for these eleven courses are nurses with advanced degrees, picked course by course. Pathophysiology goes to a writer from critical care or nursing education; research and the EBP projects go to a writer who has led evidence-based practice work; community health goes to a public health nurse; the leadership and management courses go to nurses who have run units.

The program's faith integration runs through all of it: worldview checkpoints, a worldview reflection in research, the Nehemiah paper in management and a faith presentation in the capstone. Writers on these courses are comfortable with that integration and write it as part of the argument.

Within a course, the same writer drafts every item so the course reads in one voice. Across the program, the coordinator keeps writers consistent where possible.

Every paper is reread by a second nurse before delivery.

The first hurdle is academic writing. Nurses who have charted for years find APA, abstracts and literature reviews unfamiliar, and NURS 220 and NURS 325 grade them closely from the first week.

The second is research. NURS 225 and the research parts of NURS 215 and NURS 492 ask for critical reading of studies, which many nurses have not done since their first degree.

The third is NURS 440. Its size, its community clinical time and its group project make it the course most likely to stall a student's progress.

The fourth is group work, which appears in NURS 220, NURS 440, NURS 445, NURS 489 and NURS 491 and depends on classmates in other time zones and shifts.

The last is the end of the program, when NURS 491 and NURS 492 arrive just as energy runs out.

Liberty's RN to BSN runs in 8-week courses with several start dates a year; the program page lists starts in late October, January and February. Each course here is quoted from its own guide, and the cost depends on its written load, so NURS 440 and NURS 492 cost more to hand over than NURS 105.

For a whole sequence, the coordinator quotes course by course and shows the total, so you can see the cost of each sub-term before you commit to any of it.

Courses can be passed over before day one or midstream, with the plan starting at whatever is due next.

Tell the coordinator which nursing courses remain on your degree completion plan and how many you take at once, and the plan is built from there.