Why Nursing at HAU?

Holy Angel University offers a four-year BSN program that is recognized for its dynamic student engagement, instructional quality, and high graduates’ employability. The value-added Angelite nursing education imbues conscience, competence, and compassion in the preparation of practice-ready professional nurses. Its curriculum is benchmarked with national and international standards to make it attuned with the local and foreign needs. The academic staff’s appropriate qualifications, teaching abilities, research proficiencies, and service orientation contribute to the well-rounded educational experience of students.  

BSN Program Description

The BSN program is taught with a combination of general and professional education courses. The general education courses are those that are mandated by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to develop the students’ intellectual competencies on social and natural realities and their civic capacities. Additionally, the institutional courses are included in the core instruction to instill the values and verities of the University as a Catholic institution of higher learning. 

 The professional education courses are the courses contained in the CHED Memorandum Order 15 series of 2017. They are a blend of disciplinary and borrowed sciences where central concepts, principles, and techniques are taught in theoretical and practical aspects. The theory instruction is concurrent with its counterpart practice. The practice component of professional education is carried out in simulated laboratories and actual clinical placement. The entire program of study is intended to prepare the pre-service nurses to assume beginning roles in client care, leadership and management, and research. Accordingly, the graduates of the program possess Level 6 qualification under the Philippine Qualifications Framework. 

Expected Learning Outcomes of the BSN Program

The program’s expected learning outcomes are articulated distinctly but coherently as institutional student learning outcomes (ISLOs), program educational objectives (PEOs), and program outcomes (POs).

Institutional Student Learning Outcomes

1. Show effective communication
2. Demonstrate appropriate value and sound ethical reasoning
3. Apply critical and creative thinking
4. Utilize civic and global learning
5. Use applied and collaborative learning
6. Employ aesthetic engagement
7. Show Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy

BSN Program Educational Objectives

Graduates of the BSN program are envisioned to:

1. Practice the role of a beginning nurse practitioner, rendering services mindful of patient safety and quality care.
2. Execute beginning leadership and managerial capabilities in various nursing settings.
3. Apply principles of evidence-based nursing as a beginning nurse-researcher in advancing delivery of relevant health care services.

BSN Program Outcomes 

1. Apply nursing, physical, social, natural, and health sciences, and humanities in the practice of nursing.  
2. Perform safe, appropriate, and holistic care to individuals, families, population groups, and community utilizing nursing process.  
3. Apply guidelines and principles of evidence-based practice in the delivery of care.  
4. Practice nursing in accordance with existing laws, legal, ethical, and moral principles.  
5. Communicate effectively in speaking, writing, and presenting using culturally appropriate language  
6. Report/document client care accurately and comprehensively.  
7. Collaborate effectively with inter-, intra-, and multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams.  
8. Practice beginning management and leadership skills using systems approach in the delivery of client care.  
9. Conduct research with an experienced researcher.  
10. Engage in lifelong learning with a passion to keep current with national and global developments in general, and nursing and health developments in particular.  
11. Demonstrate responsible citizenship and pride in being a Filipino.  
12. Apply techno-intelligent care systems and processes in health care delivery.  
13. Uphold the nursing and Holy Angel University core values in the practice of the profession.  
14. Apply entrepreneurial skills in the delivery of nursing care.  

Institutional Student Learning Outcomes (ISLOs) mapped onto the elements of the HAU core purpose (mission statement) 

BSN Program Educational Objectives (PEOs) mapped onto the elements of the HAU core purpose (mission statement) 

BSN Program Outcomes (POs) mapped onto the elements of the HAU core purpose (mission statement) 

Specific Program based Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Principles and Approaches

The School actualizes OBE with its outcomes-based teaching and learning (OBTL) at the class level. In OBTL, academic staff frame their instruction in a fashion where the outcomes determine the instructional content, the teaching methods and strategies, and the assessment process. They make OBTL apparent in their observance of the following teaching and learning principles:  

Teaching Principles 

1. Teaching involves getting relevant information about students to guide the design of instruction. 
2. Teaching involves expressing clear expectations about how learning takes place. 
3. Teaching involves focusing on the essential knowledge and skills. 
4. Teaching involves recognizing and overcoming expert blind spot. 
5. Teaching involves adopting appropriate teaching roles to support student learning. 
6. Teaching involves continuous improving of learning plans based on feedback and reflection. 

Learning Principles 

1. Students’ prior knowledge can help or hinder learning. 
2. Students’ ways of organizing knowledge influence how they learn and apply what they know. 
3. Students’ motivation determines, directs, and sustains what they do to learn. 
4. Students develop mastery by acquiring knowledge and skills, practicing integration, and knowing when to apply what they have learned. 
5. Students’ quality of learning is enhanced by goal-directed practice and targeted feedback. 
6. Students’ developmental level interacts with the social, emotional, and intellectual climate of the course to impact learning. 
7. Students must know how to monitor and adjust their approaches to learning to become self-directed learners. 

The teaching and learning in the program happen both at the conceptual/theoretical and practical levels. Academic staff teach students in lecture courses in either classroom-based on online mode. They design learning plans that reflect teaching-learning activities that promote active learning by making the students do the work. They use several student-centered teaching strategies that do away with them as constant source of information. The practical instruction, on the other hand, is done by providing students with structured clinical learning experience that is anchored on program outcomes.  

Program Quality Assurance

The School submits its programs for external validation of quality through accreditation. The process of accreditation starts with self-evaluation of the program’s services, processes, and outputs. The results of the self-evaluation are peer-reviewed by external accrediting agencies. The BSN program commenced the journey towards accreditation when the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges, and University (PAASCU) conducted the preliminary survey visit in 2009. Subsequently, a candidate status was awarded to the program. From there, the School consistently worked towards full accreditation (Level I Accredited Status). Its Level II Reaccredited Status was granted in 2020 and Level III Reaccredited Status in 2021 after the commendable survey visit and very satisfactory compliance with the recommendations. This accolade was granted by the Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines (FAAP) upon the favorable recommendation of PAASCU.   

With this second to the highest level of accreditation, the BSN program enjoys the following benefits: 

• full administrative deregulation; 
• financial deregulation in terms of setting of tuition and other fees and charges; 
• authority to revise the curriculum without CHED approval; 
• priority in the awards of grants/subsidies or funding assistance from CHED;  
• authority to offer new courses allied to existing level III courses without need for prior approval; 
• privilege to offer new graduate programs; 
• privilege to offer open learning/distance education; and 
• privilege to offer extension classes and transnational education. 

Retention Policies

Bachelor of Science in Nursing 

The following rules and standards of retention shall be strictly observed: 

1. A student with a general weighted average of 75% or better qualifies for admission in the following semester. 
2. Academic probation starts in the second-year level of students, and they will be placed under the individual program of study (IPOS). 
3. Non-Admission to the Program (Out of the Program): 

  A student shall no longer be admitted to the program on the following grounds: 

1. failing grades in more than 30% of the total academic load enrolled in during the preceding semester; and 
2. failing the same major/professional subject for the third time. 
3. All theoretical components and related learning experience (RLE) of the professional subjects must be passed. Failure in the theoretical component means repeating both the lecture and its corresponding RLE. 
4. If a student passes the theoretical component but fails in RLE, the students will repeat RLE. 
5. All absences in RLE in a particular semester must be completed prior to promotion to the next semester. 
6. A student can be placed under probationary status only once. Otherwise, he will no longer be admitted to the program. 

Career Opportunities

Client Care 

Graduates of the BSN program can be reasonably expected to use the nursing process in the performance of care for mothers and newborns, children and adolescents, adults and older persons, families, population groups, and persons with special needs in community or institutional settings. 

Leadership and Management 

Graduates of the BSN program can serve as first-level managers and leaders of nursing service units and health services and programs in public and private organizations.  

Research 

BSN graduates can engage in nursing and health-related research as co-investigators, data collectors and analysts, and support staff. They can evaluate studies and apply the research process in improving nursing care. 

Advanced Practice Nursing 

Graduates of the BSN program can pursue graduate studies to further enhance their knowledge, skills, and attitude. Beyond the beginning professional roles mentioned earlier, the Angelite nurses can pursue formal studies and training leading to advanced practice in the following areas: 

• Ambulatory Care 
• Cardiovascular Nursing 
• Critical Care Nursing 
• Diabetes Education 
• Emergency Care Nursing 
• Enterostomal and Wound Care Nursing 
• Entrepreneurial Nursing 
• Hospice/Palliative Nursing 
• Nephrology/Renal Nursing 
• Neurologic Nursing 
• Nursing Informatics 
• Oncology Nursing 
• Orthopedic Nursing 
• Telehealth Nursing 
• Gerontological Nursing 

Organizational and Institutional Partners 

• Angeles Medical Center 
• Angeles District Jail 
• Jose B Lingad Memorial General Hospital 
• Dr. Amando L. Garcia Medical Center 
• Angeles City Health Office 
• St. Catherine of Alexandria Foundation Medical Center 
• St. Raphael Foundation Medical Center 
• Mariveles Mental Wellness and General Hospital 
• Mother Teresa of Calcutta Medical Center 
• The Medical City – Clark 
• Filipino Nursing Diaspora Network 
• Sun Moon University (South Korea) 
• Kkotonggnae University (South Korea) 
• University of Pennsylvania – School of Nursing 

Department of Nursing’s Published Research