Program Overview
The Registered Nursing to Baccalaureate program at the Stony Brook School of Nursing centers upon upper-division nursing and liberal arts courses leading to a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in nursing.
The program focuses on the dynamic landscape of global healthcare with an emphasis on cultivating effective communication, collaboration, and leadership skills, essential for providing evidence-based, socially-just care to individuals, families, and populations.
The curriculum introduces diverse theoretical models of professional nursing and healthcare, applying them to real-world clinical scenarios and facilitating the seamless transition of competencies to the baccalaureate level of proficiency.
Dr. Kathleen Gambino
Program Director
Upon completion of the program, the baccalaureate graduate nurse will be able to:
- 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)
- Integrate evidence-based, compassionate, and developmentally appropriate patient-centered nursing care to diverse individuals, families, and communities. (Domain 2)
- Communicate with the community, industry, academia, health care, policymakers, and other stakeholders to promote equitable population health outcomes and improve disease management and prevention. (Domain 3)
- 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 health care. (Domain 4)
- Apply established and emerging principles of improvement science and safety to enhance individual practice and system effectiveness to provide high-quality health care and minimize the risk of harm to patients. (Domain 5)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- A current unencumbered New York State RN license (or new graduate nurses who will be licensed within six months of the start of the program).
- Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5.
- All pre-admission coursework must be completed with a grade of C or higher. 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 or a comparable institution.
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.
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