Nursing

The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree at SPU is an upper-division nursing program that builds on a strong liberal arts foundation while preparing you for entry-level nursing practice in acute care and community health settings.

Seattle Pacific University’s undergraduate Nursing Program is known for developing competent, compassionate registered nurses (RNs) through rigorous academics and relationship-centered learning grounded in Christian faith and values. SPU BSN graduates are highly sought-after for their expertise, ethical leadership, and commitment to serving diverse communities in acute care and community health settings.

With clinically relevant coursework and hands-on nursing science training, SPU’s nursing degree program challenges you to excel in both the classroom and clinical settings. Faculty members bring real-world nursing experience, providing personalized mentorship to prepare you for success in the professional health care field. The program:

  • Emphasizes both health promotion and illness care.
  • Fosters the development of critical thinking, ethical thought and action, judgment, collaboration, and caring.
  • Integrates the Christian faith with scientific knowledge and clinical expertise.
  • Works with patients as whole beings, considering their mind, body, spirit, and surrounding environment.
  • Seeks to graduate people of competence, character, and caring.

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Most undergraduate students entering Seattle Pacific University follow the standard General Education curriculum to complete their undergraduate degrees. Requirements include completion of Foreign Language Competency, Common, and Exploratory requirements. Refer to your graduation checklist to ensure that you’re taking the required courses and credits you need to earn your degree in a timely manner.


Nursing Program Mission and Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes

  1. Generalist: Integrate concepts of liberal arts and sciences to promote wellbeing and manage complex nursing care, incorporating sound clinical judgement through nurse generalist practice.
  2. Health care leader: Employ leadership principles, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement strategies to influence health policy and regulations for provision of safe and quality care across the lifespan. 
  3. Health information manager: Use patient care technologies and manage clinical information to deliver safe, effective, and quality care in a variety of settings across diverse populations. 
  4. Collaborator: Collaborate in the management, coordination, and delivery of inter-professional care for diverse individuals, families, and communities. 
  5. Professional: Demonstrate professional behaviors that reflect values consistent with lifelong learning, spiritual awareness, cultural humility, and ethical standards. 
Find out about this program's Mission in the Undergraduate Catalog.    

Undergraduate nursing student in class

Degree requirements

See list of required courses for the undergraduate Nursing (BS) degree.

Undergraduate nursing students training in the nursing lab

Financial Aid Resources

Don’t let costs stop you from pursuing your undergraduate nursing education — or your future.

Nursing Practice Excellence

Annette Ventoza was awarded the Washington State March of Dimes Nurse of the Year Award for Nursing Practice Excellence. She graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2018 from the Lydia Green Nursing Program at SPU.  

Annette is a Neonatal Intensive Care nurse whose passion for caring for neonates drives her to continually find ways to improve patient safety, quality of care and ensure the highest standard of care is being provided. She holds many leadership roles at Valley Medical Center to further support the educational needs of her unit.