{"id":6810,"date":"2011-06-08T09:42:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T14:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bemidjistate.edu\/bsutoday\/?p=6810"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:29:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:29:44","slug":"rn-bsn-nursing-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2011\/06\/08\/rn-bsn-nursing-full\/","title":{"rendered":"BSU&#039;s RN-to-bachelor\u2019s nursing programs at capacity for 2011-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BEMIDJI, Minn. (June 8, 2011)<\/strong> &mdash; One hundred and twenty spots. One hundred and twenty students.<\/p>\n<p>Bemidji State University&rsquo;s registered nurse to bachelor of science in nursing degree completion programs at each of its three locations &mdash; at Bemidji State University and on the campuses of Lake Superior College in Duluth, Minn., and Anoka-Ramsey College in Cambridge, Minn. &mdash; are full to capacity of 40 students each for 2011-12.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Bemidji, Cambridge and Duluth areas are all home to significant numbers of RNs who have been requesting a public option for baccalaureate education,&rdquo; said Dr. Jeanine Gangeness, chair of Bemidji State&rsquo;s Department of Nursing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Registered nurses in northern Minnesota are thirsting for further education to improve their skills,&rdquo; Gangeness said. &ldquo;Completion of a nationally accredited nursing program helps students get into graduate programs, like nurse practitioner programs, and nurse practitioners are in huge demand nation-wide.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Bemidji State&rsquo;s four-year nursing degree program has been available at BSU since 1983. The University opened its program at Anoka-Ramsey&rsquo;s Cambridge campus in the fall of 2009, and the Lake Superior College program will make its debut this fall.<\/p>\n<p>The Lake Superior College program filled to capacity less than two weeks after the first information session for students interested in the program, which was held on May 25.<\/p>\n<p>Bemidji State University&rsquo;s nursing programs at all three locations will begin taking applicants for the fall of 2012 beginning in January.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the Department of Nursing at (218) 755-3860.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEMIDJI, Minn. (June 8, 2011) &mdash; One hundred and twenty spots. One hundred and twenty students. Bemidji State University&rsquo;s registered nurse to bachelor of science in nursing degree completion programs at each of its three locations &mdash; at Bemidji State University and on the campuses of Lake Superior College in Duluth, Minn., and Anoka-Ramsey College [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43898,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810\/revisions\/43898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}