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Program Overview
Stony Brook University School of Nursing's Basic Baccalaureate Program leads to a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in nursing. Students begin the nursing major after completing two years of prerequisite, general education coursework, either at Stony Brook University or another accredited institution.
The Bachelor of Science with a major in nursing program applies principles from the sciences, arts, and humanities to patient-centered nursing practice. 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 the program are eligible to sit for the NCLEX-RN exam.
Dr. Kenneth Faulkner
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, healthcare, 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 healthcare. (Domain 4)
- 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)
- 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 minimum cumulative GPA of 2.8 is required.
- 57 credits with a grade of C or higher in the following courses:
Stony Brook University students who satisfy the language requirement (communicate in a language other than English) will fulfill the foreign language admission requirement for the School of Nursing. However, the number of required elective credits must increase from 9 to 12 to meet the minimum requirement of 57 credits.
These courses, together with the School of Nursing curriculum, satisfy Stony Brook curriculum requirements and provide our students with a diverse educational foundation that will facilitate lifelong active and adaptive learning and inspire engaged global citizenship.
- A minimum cumulative GPA of 2.8 is required.
- Grade C or higher in the following courses:
