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Northwest University’s College of Nursing

Nationally Recognized For Excellence. On Campus or 100% Online.

As a nurse, your patients need the very best you have to give. To provide this, you seek the best education possible. At Northwest University’s College of Nursing, our degree programs have been nationally recognized for their excellence. We offer a variety of modalities to fit your life—from on campus to 100% online. So whether you are seeking your first nursing degree or are a licensed nurse looking to advance your career, choose excellence. Choose Northwest University.

Buntain College of Nursing Mission Statement

The Buntain College of Nursing at Northwest University prepares graduates to answer their call to serve God throughout the world and lead others by using their professional expertise as nurses.

Best Online Master’s in Nursing”

– Fortune

Best Colleges For Nursing”

– Niche

Top 50 Best Christian Colleges In US”

– Niche

Top 10 Nursing Programs In WA”

– Registerednursing.org

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Choose the option that best matches your starting point.

Undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Nursing

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I do not have any prior nursing education or experience and would like a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.

Online Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing

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I already have an active RN license and would like a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.

Master of Science in Nursing

Online Master of Science in Nursing

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I already have a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and an active RN license.

Upcoming College of Nursing Events


Online MSN

Our online Master of Science in Nursing program.

  • Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 6:00pm
  • Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 6:00pm

Online RN-BSN

Our online Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.

  • Monday, April 3, 2023 at 6:00pm
  • Monday, May 8, 2023 at 6:00pm

Undergraduate BSN

Our traditional, on-campus, undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.

Why Nursing at Northwest University?

Career Focused. Faith-Friendly

Unlike other nursing schools you may be considering, NU is a private Christian university that honors your faith. Here, you can bring your full self as a student—including your faith. In fact, we’ve integrated faith into each course to help you incorporate it into your nursing profession.  

More Engaged Learning Experience

At NU, our on campus and online cohorts are smaller. That means you’ll get more 1:1 attention when you need it. You’ll know your professors. You’ll know your classmates. And you’ll know you are getting the skills you need to confidently care for patients in a range of settings

Expert Faculty That Cares

Faculty in our Nursing programs aren’t just highly educated, they bring real-work experience treating diverse populations. But what sets our faculty apart isn’t just their brains. It’s their heart. Each one cares deeply about your success.

The Benefits of a Nonprofit University 

As a private, Christian nonprofit university, our focus is on student success. Nonprofits typically have higher graduation rates, higher quality of instruction, and alumni whose median income is higher than those who’ve attended for-profit colleges.

Accreditation

The baccalaureate degree program in nursing and the master's degree program in nursing at Northwest University are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (http://www.ccneaccreditation.org).

CCNE Accredited

Want to Learn More About the Northwest University Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Prelicensure) Program?

Northwest University offers a combination of academic excellence and spiritual foundation needed to face the challenges of the nursing profession. The Buntain College of Nursing prelicensure Bachelor of Science in Nursing program is offered at the Northwest University Kirkland campus and blends scientific, clinical, and holistic health studies – enhanced by cross-cultural study – to give students a global perspective on engaging with human need.

At the time I found out about Northwest University, I was actually working at Microsoft and I remember sitting in my little cubicle staring at the gray, you know, felt and just thinking to myself, God, there has to be something more than this. And it may sound crazy leaving, you know, Microsoft, this big tech company, but I just didn't have that sense of purpose there. And I didn't feel like I was really living out that call on my life. So I started to look around and looking for schools and and came across Northwest University. And, you know, I read I went to their website, I read their mission, and I really just fell in love with the school. And I think looking back now, it was it's kind of funny because I think Northwest University found me. I think it was really God sort of inviting me into the school to do the things that I'm doing. 

I think Northwest's nursing program, the Buntain School of nursing, as it's called, is unique and special in that it has a couple of components that I think help set it apart. One is that it has a decidedly Christian focus and there's no apologies made for that. And it is a clear distinctive.

We definitely are a true Christian university and Christian program that we as faculty, that we integrate our faith. We hope to role model that to our students. And so a distinctive is that we really do focus on being servant leaders as Christians, that we are seeking to care for the whole person, that we go out as students. I see students serving the staff that they're working with. And I think that's unique to our students is that we get a lot of compliments from the staff that we work with in the hospitals. That they often see our students as different in a good way. And so, and I believe that is, that their servants heart to really be Christ in their setting.

Northwest is a great option. It's a bachelor's program. So you get your bachelor's degree. And the culture of nursing right now is heading that way. If people have their associate's degree, hospitals want them to go back to school and get their bachelor's degree. If you go to Northwest, you get your bachelor's degree when you graduate.

And it just looks really good when, through the hiring process, it's going to put you ahead of other people. Integrated into the core of the program is that requirement and the opportunity to travel internationally. It is, as far as I know, the only program in the United States that has not just an elective component, but actually integrated into the core of Northwest curriculum for nursing. Is that requirement that you spend a month away.

It's really unique to be able to say that you have, you know, a month long, like full immersion in another country so that you get to open up your eyes to see not only what's going on here in the hospitals here and the patient care here, but like in other countries, in other parts of the world and what other people are living like. I ended up going to Taiwan and it was actually really fun because we, for the first I think like two weeks, we got to go to different floors and see how nursing looks in this country on the different floors. I look back at my life and see that it wasn't an accident, that I ended up Northwest and just how God put little things in my life when I was a teenager. And then seeing it all culminate together like India is the ultimate, like, that's where I'm supposed to be and it's you know, it's cool to look back at my life and see how those things are playing together to come to this point in my life.

At Northwest University, you're going to get an amazing education, I mean, hands down, you're going to walk out of here with all the skills and all the confidence you need to go out and be an excellent nurse. But beyond that, the personal growth that I've experienced as a person, you know, individually and spiritually, I think those are the things, the character building, you know all the, everything that gets poured into you as as a person, not just as a student. Those are the things that I think really are going to carry me to success in the future.

It's pretty much been the best experience in my life, I guess. And that just means like there have been so many ups and downs, but I wouldn't trade it for for anything. It's just been a really good time. It's been a good two years, and I'm like almost sad to be leaving, it's just been really cool. Coolest thing I've ever done.

Want to Learn More about Northwest University’s Online Nursing Programs?

Northwest University offers two fully online programs that help licensed nurses advance their career and grow deeper in their ability to integrate their faith into the nursing profession. The Buntain College of Nursing Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing (RN-BSN) program and the Master of Science and Nursing (MSN) program offer students opportunities to move into positions in leadership, public health, research, education, entrepreneurial ventures, and more. 

Hello. I am Erin-Joy, Bjorge, and I served as the Dean of the Mark and Huldah Buntain College of Nursing at Northwest University. Welcome to the College of Nursing and more specifically to our online programs. You have made a great decision and we are thrilled to collaborate with you on your professional development journey. The Buntain College of Nursing emphasizes lifelong learning as a means to remain current and at mastery in professional nursing leadership and service. Lifelong professional learning begins as the learner enters nursing and remains a strategic force throughout the nurse's lifetime of professional practice.

Since 2000, we have been providing exceptional nursing education while adjusting to the changing needs of our health care environment. We have strong relationships in the community with a wide variety of practice experience partners. Our expert faculty provide unique learner environments that integrate the Christian faith with evidence based practice and diverse practice experiences.

Our online students have access to several campus based support services. Computers are available for student use on the main floor of Hurst Library and in the Argue Health Sciences Center. Counseling and support services through the Wellness Center promote an integrative and holistic approach to student health and wellness, supporting students and their physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social well-being. The Hurst Library offers many services through their physical building on the Kirkland campus and through their website. Search thousands of ebooks and e-journals available 24-7 from anywhere. Finish your bibliography fast using tools like rough works and citation style guides, renew books, check holds, and inter-library loan statuses. The Writing Center on campus is also located in the Hurst Library. Students can make appointments to access a writing tutor in person or via email. In addition, Smart Thinking is an online tutoring service that supports student success.

Online students have free 24-hour access to Smart Thinking. The Northwest University Virtual Chapel provides an opportunity for individuals to engage in personal spiritual growth, develop a sense of community and learn more about the basics of Christianity. Chapel is a vital part of life at Northwest University, in response to the teachings of Jesus with an ultimate goal of glorifying God. All online students are welcome to attend chapel services conducted three times a week on the Kirkland, Washington campus. Our unique online programs offer opportunities for personal and professional growth.

You will build on your knowledge and expertise as registered nurses to strengthen skills and clinical reasoning, leadership, population health, research, and global and intercultural health care. As graduates of our programs, your expanded clinical confidence, personal integrity, and maturing professionalism will merge with the elements of superior character, leadership, and nursing expertise. In all levels of nursing education at Northwest University, learners progressively internalize concepts of compassion, critical thinking, professional leadership, accountability, and respect for culturally defined relationship exchanges to systematically develop a professional nursing practice from a uniquely Christian worldview. We will partner with you to meet the constantly changing landscape of health care while holding true to your core values and offering an environment where the Christian faith is purposefully integrated throughout our curriculum. Together, we will prepare you to lead others around the world by using your professional expertise as nurses from the bedside to the boardroom, as leaders and catalysts of change in advancing the profession of nursing. You are in good hands as you walk through your program. So welcome. Work hard, stay focused, ask questions, and grow. This is definitely a journey worth taking.

Word from the College of Nursing

“At Northwest University, we partner with and educate students to meet the constantly changing landscape of healthcare through critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment. The Buntain College of Nursing holds true to our core values and offers an environment where the Christian faith is purposefully integrated throughout our curriculum. We prepare students to lead others around the world by using their professional expertise as nurses from the bedside to the boardroom.”

Dr. Erin-Joy Bjorge DNP, RN, CNE, COI

Dean, Buntain College of Nursing

College of Nursing


Undergraduate Programs

  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Online Programs

  • Online Master of Science in Nursing
  • Online Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing

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Northwest University Buntain College of Nursing
5520 108th Ave. NE
Kirkland, WA 98033
nursing@northwestu.edu
425-889-7822

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