Accelerated Baccalaureate Program

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Program Overview

The 12-month Accelerated Baccalaureate Program is designed for students who have already completed a bachelor's degree at Stony Brook University or another comparable institution. The concentrated nursing curriculum leads to a Bachelor of Science with a major in nursing.

This accelerated nursing program draws on the prerequisite courses from the humanities and the natural and social sciences, promoting student use of theory and the nursing process to provide health promotion, health maintenance, and restoration of diverse populations of patients.

Students are provided with learning experiences focused on individuals, families, groups, and communities. In addition, students are exposed to various delivery models of professional nursing and healthcare. Stony Brook University Hospital is utilized as one of several clinical sites.

Graduates of this on-site program are eligible to sit for the NCLEX-RN exam.

 

Dr. Kenneth Faulkner

Dr. Kenneth Faulkner
Program Director

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)

Admissions FAQ

  • B.A. or B.S. Degree.
  • Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.8 and grades of C or higher in the following courses:
Required Courses
Credits
English Composition
3
Microbiology/Lab
4
Anatomy and Physiology I/Lab
4
Anatomy and Physiology II/Lab
4
Chemistry
3
Statistics
3
Lifespan Development 
3
Graduation Requirements
Credits
Professional Socialization
HNI 350 Professional Role Development in Nursing
2
HNI 440 Nursing Research: Appraising Evidence for Practice
2
HNI 479 Transitioning to Baccalaureate Nursing Practice
3
Health Related Sciences
HNI 301 Mathematics for Healthcare
2
HNI 310 Pathophysiology
3
HNI 333 Fundamentals of Pharmacology
4
Clinical Nursing
HNI 370 Health Assessment
3
HNI 373 Psychosocial Mental Health Nursing
6
HNI 377 Principles and Applications of Nursing Interventions I
6
HNI 378 Principles and Applications of Nursing Interventions II
6
HNI 455 Adult/Gerontological Health Nursing I
6
HNI 456 Adult/Gerontological Health Nursing II
6
HNI 463 Sexual, Reproductive, and Perinatal Health
5
HNI 464 Child and Adolescent Health Nursing
5
HNI 469 Population Health Nursing
6
HNI 474 Capstone Nursing Practicum
4
Electives