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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’s 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’s 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.
[Footage of people putting non-perishable food into boxes labeled “Donation”]
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’s 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’s 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’re available.
Text on screen: ONLINE AND AVAILABLE
Jane: For me personally, Webster University 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.
[Webster University logo animates on screen]
Text on screen: webster.edu
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