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Grad. Requirements

In order to graduate from the St. Elizabeth School of Nursing - Saint Joseph's College Consortium Nursing Program, the student must meet all of the following criteria:

  • Achieve a required minimum of 132 semester credits and a cumulative grade point average (CUM-GPA) of 2.000 for the Diploma-BSN degree from the St. Elizabeth School of Nursing – Saint Joseph’s College Consortium program.  The last 30 semester hours must be taken in residence.
  • Achieve a required “C” grade or better in:
  • Human Anatomy & Physiology (4-6 Semester Credits)
  • Introductory Chemistry (3 Semester Credits)
  • Introductory Microbiology (3-4 Semester Credits)
  • Pathophysiology (3 Semester Credits)
  • Pharmocology (3 Semester Credits)
  • General Education – Liberal Arts
    • Core 1 – The Contemporary Situation (6 Semester Credits)
    • Core 2 – The Modern World (6 Semester Credits)
    • Core 10 – Christianity and the Human Situation (Health Care Ethics) (3 Semester Credits)
  • All Nursing courses of the major
    • To qualify for a “C” grade or better in a Nursing course with a clinical component, the student must demonstrate an overall “C” average on all tests and quizzes of the course and satisfactorily complete the clinical requirements.
  • Achieve a cumulative GPA of 2.00 or better in Core requirements.
  • Show evidence of reasonable professional competency in nursing as demonstrated by achieving a satisfactory observed score on program-determined national standardized examinations during the student’s last year of nursing course work.
  • Have met financial and/or other graduation requirements as published in the Nursing Program Catalog/Nursing Student Handbook.

Having met these requirements, the student will be awarded a Diploma in Nursing from the St. Elizabeth School of Nursing.

Upon completion of the St. Elizabeth curriculum, students will have completed a minimum of 132 credit hours. Of this total, 19 credit hours will be earned in the traditional science courses required of most registered nursing curricula (Anatomy & Physiology, Microbiology, Chemistry, Pathophysiology and Pharmacology), 39 credit hours in Core requirements (liberal arts and humanities, including health care [nursing] bioethics) courses, and 74 credit hours of nursing courses which includes a total of 1136 hours of clinical experience.