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Text on screen: Program Spotlight: RN-BSN Completion

Text on screen: Jody Spiess, PhD, RN, GCPH Associate Professor, RN to BSN Coordinator, Nursing

Jody Spiess: The nursing program at Webster does help deepen the nurse鈥檚 practice. So they come to us with a foundation of nursing skills, you know, starting IVs, things like that. We build upon that and give them a more global picture of nursing.

Text on screen: Career Advancement: Taking your Nursing Practice to the Next Level

A lot of the facilities, especially in the St. Louis area, but many facilities across the country, are pushing for nurses to have a BSN as a beginning degree.

Text on screen: Jane F. Student

Jane F.: I was already a professional functioning nurse, but what it did was it expanded my horizons and enabled me to be able to read statistical reports and research and be able to discern if it was good information.

Text on screen: DEEPER KNOWLEDGE OF HEALTH CARE

I couldn't really go any further in my nursing career without a BSN.

Text on screen: Social Responsibility: Understanding Health Care in a Global and Diverse Environment

Spiess: One of the things that makes our RN to BSN program unique is the amount of content that we spend on the social determinants of health, which are those factors that impact patient鈥檚 health that is not related to acute care.

Text on screen: Factors such as SOCIOECONOMIC CLASS, RACIAL and GENDER

A lot of people tend to think of nursing as a hospital, but there's so much more to that.

Jane: It also broadens my knowledge about community-based nursing.

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It was a great segue for me to return to volunteering in the community, and now I volunteer every weekend at food outreach in preparing meals for people with HIV and cancer who are unable to prepare their own meals.

Spiess: They will have a much bigger picture of their patients, their patient鈥檚 families, and the environment in which their patient comes from and goes back to.

Text on screen: Flexible Learning: Online Courses for Working Professionals

It鈥檚 100% online, and if you run the class in a way that you are going back and forth with students, talking with them throughout the week, I find that I get to know them better than I did one night a week in the classroom.

[Footage of Jody Spiess teaching a class online]

Jane: You can break it up during your day if you have some downtime during the day. You can access your studies and work on it at that time.

Spiess: So online, but we鈥檙e available.

Text on screen: ONLINE AND AVAILABLE

Jane: For me personally, 黑料网 was a small enough community. I didn't feel like I got lost and felt well supported, as well as developing personal relationships with my classmates. I just don't think I would have had that in a large university setting.

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Text on screen: webster.edu

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