MGH Institute of Health Professions resumes classes today for the spring semester of the 2013-2014 academic year, as more than 100 students in the Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program arrive on the graduate school's Charlestown Navy Yard campus.
The new BSN students in the School of Nursing are beginning an extensive 14-month academic journey that will prepare them to become Registered Nurses and help alleviate a national shortage of more than 100,000 nurses.
They join join more than 1,200 graduate students in nursing, physical therapy, speech-language pathology, health professions education, and rehabilitation sciences.
The students, all of whom have a four-year college degree, will be placed within their first month in external clinical rotations in hospitals and other health care settings to work with live patients—far quicker than what occurs in other regional accelerated BSN programs.
Upon graduating in May 2015, the BSN students will be prepared to sit for the licensure exam to become Registered Nurses (RN).
The next Information Session for the Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program is Thursday, February 20, at 6 p.m. The deadline to apply to the January 2015 cohort is July 1, 2014.
View upcoming information sessions for all of the MGH Institute's programs.
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