Registered Nurse Baccalaureate to Master's Program

Upon completion of the program, the baccalaureate graduate nurse will be able to:

1. Utilize clinical judgment when integrating established and evolving knowledge from nursing; liberal arts; natural and social sciences; and other related disciplines in the formation of innovative nursing practice. (Domain 1)
2. Integrate evidence-based, compassionate, and developmentally appropriate patient-centered nursing care to diverse individuals, families, and communities. (Domain 2)
3. Communicate with the community, industry, academia, healthcare, policymakers, and other stakeholders to promote equitable population health outcomes, and improve disease management and prevention. (Domain 3)
4. Formulate professional, ethical knowledge based on nursing theory and evidence generated, synthesized, translated, and applied from nursing and other disciplines to improve practice and transform healthcare.  (Domain 4)
5. Apply established and emerging principles of improvement science and safety to enhance individual practice and system effectiveness to provide high-quality healthcare and minimize the risk of harm to patients. (Domain 5)
6. Demonstrate intentional and effective collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and stakeholders, fostering mutual respect and shared decision-making to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.  (Domain 6)
7. Incorporate communication technologies and informatics processes in coordinating resources to gather data and drive decision-making to provide continuity of care, mitigation of error, and optimization of quality patient outcomes for diverse populations. (Domain 7 & 8)
8. Demonstrate a professional identity of accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment that reflects nursing's inherent values of altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice. (Domain 9)
9. Inculcate a spirit of self-reflection that fosters lifelong learning, self-care, well-being, and resilience, along with the acquisition of nursing expertise, to promote the development of professional identity and the assertion of nursing leadership (Domain 10)

• Translate nursing’s discipline-specific perspective, theory, and research-based evidence to inform clinical judgment as the foundation for the highest level of advanced practice. (Domain 1)
• Synthesize advanced scientific knowledge with collaborative skills recognizing the intersectionality of multiple interdependent and social determinants of health, to design and deliver person-centered care that is holistic, respectful, just, evidenced-based, and person-centered. (Domain 2)
• Collaborate with traditional and non-traditional partners across settings to determine population-focused priorities, assess the system’s capability in addressing population healthcare needs, and lead in the development of healthcare policies and practices for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes. (Domain 3)
• Advance the scholarship of nursing by applying nursing's unique perspective to lead the translation of evidence into practice to provide optimal care and address health inequities, structural racism, and system inequity.  (Domain 4)
• Apply principles of improvement science to evaluate care quality and safety to design system improvements and health policies that minimize the risk of harm to patients and providers for system effectiveness. (Domain 5)
• Lead inter-professional communication and collaboration to facilitate the integration of evidence-based strategies that improve processes within healthcare systems optimizing outcomes for diverse populations. (Domain 6)
• Optimize system effectiveness by leveraging care coordination, informatics processes, and technologies to deliver safe, high-quality, equitable, and efficient healthcare services following best practices and professional and regulatory standards. (Domain 7 & 8)
• Model a resilient professional identity embodying accountability, perspective, ethical comportment, and a collaborative disposition that is reflective of nursing’s mission to the individual, society, and the profession. (Domain 9)
• Demonstrate self-reflection and cognitive flexibility to promote environments that foster life-long learning, professional growth, self-care, well-being, and resilience; and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and the assertion of leadership. (Domain 10)

• A current unencumbered New York State RN license.
• Minimum cumulative G.P.A. of 3.0.
• Minimum one year of clinical experience as an RN in the clinical area of interest.
• All pre-admission coursework must be completed with a grade of C or better. These credits must be from an institution accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education. 
• Students with prior baccalaureate degrees in other disciplines may be eligible to apply a maximum of 19 upper-division credits (undergraduate courses numbered 300 or higher) toward the liberal arts and sciences component of the Registered Nurse to Baccalaureate degree program.
• Grades received for transferred courses are not shown nor included in the calculation of the student’s cumulative grade point average at Stony Brook University.
• All foreign transcripts must be evaluated by the World Education Services (http://www.wes.org) or a comparable institution.
• Refer to the School of Nursing Student Handbook for the full transfer credits and course waiver policies.
• Admission to the Nursing program is highly competitive. Meeting the minimum criteria for admission does not guarantee acceptance. The School of Nursing reserves the right to make final decisions based on the applicant pool each year.

• Application and personal statement. Applications are available after August 1.
• Paid application fee or approved waiver. Receipt of the application and paid application fee (or approved waiver) are due at the application deadline.
• Unofficial transcripts from all colleges/universities attended.
• Three online letters of recommendation.
• Evidence of at least one year of clinical experience as a registered nurse in the clinical area of interest.
• Meet the Technical Standards For Admission and Retention.

• Official transcripts from all colleges/universities attended.
• All newly admitted students will receive an email from the SON Required Documentation email address, shown below, with detailed instructions to utilize the required CastleBranch web-based software system. This system requires a one-time fee and is where students will upload and manage required documents.son_required_documentation@stonybrook.edu.
• All preadmission classes must be completed before the start of the program.
• Meet the SBU technology requirements.

The Office of Clinical Placements facilitates the processing of clinical placement requests and contracts for all clinical affiliations within the baccalaureate, master’s, advanced certificate, and DNP programs. The office works collaboratively with faculty to secure clinical placement sites for students. Once a suitable site is identified, students submit a clinical placement request form for processing.

The office maintains electronic data systems and records related to students, clinical placement sites, clinical affiliation agreements, clinical contracts, and preceptors. Central to the clinical placement process for all programs is the establishment of a clinical affiliation agreement and clinical contract, which is executed between SUNY and the clinical site.

Upon final execution of a clinical affiliation agreement, SUNY procures and provides the site with a certificate of insurance or related protection evidencing the required insurance coverage. The provisions of a clinical affiliation agreement and clinical contract include the responsibilities and mutual terms that are agreed upon during the life of the agreement. 

Please note that it is a Stony Brook Medicine policy that the School of Nursing is not permitted to pay for, approve, or participate in, a clinical placement arrangement for our students that requires payment of any type by the School, student, or any other third party. 

THE SCHOOL OF NURSING RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CHANGE ADMISSION AND PROGRAM CRITERIA TO MEET PREVAILING ACCREDITATION AND REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS.