Nursing: the California Board of Registered Nursing has given initial approval for California State University

San Fernando Valley Business Journal, June 11, 2007

Nursing: The California Board of Registered Nursing has given initial approval for California State University, Northridge's College of Health and Human Development to begin offering an accelerated bachelor's degree in nursing this month.

The program, which compresses 56 semester units of classes and clinical work into a 15-month program, targets people who already have a bachelor's degree in a non-nursing, field and want to pursue a nursing career.

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Every summer and fall, 18 students will be admitted to the four-semester program for classroom work and clinical rotations.

The first group will start the program in June. Starting in 2008, two groups of 18 students will be admitted each year.

At the end of the 15-month period, students will be eligible to receive a Bachelor of Science Degree in nursing and to take the registered nurse licensing exam and apply for a Public Health Nurse Certificate.