Nursing RN to BS Completion - Online
Bachelor of Science Degree
The Nursing RN to BS Completion Program will prepare licensed registered nurses to provide professional nursing skills to individuals, families and groups in a variety of structured and unstructured healthcare settings, as well as the leadership skills needed to supervise nursing care delivered in acute and community settings. The curriculum offers a balance of courses in general education and nursing. Students are provided with the theoretical knowledge and clinical practice needed to administer care for individuals throughout the life cycle. Learning experiences take place in the online environment and a variety of clinical settings. All students are assisted in the development of their potential with guidance offered by faculty who possess broad nursing experience and academic preparation in the field.
Baccalaureate prepared nurses are equipped with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to meet complex health care challenges. Building on initial nursing preparation, the RN to BS Completion program will prepare graduates for a broader scope of practice, enhanced professional development, and better understanding social, economic, cultural, and political issues that affect health care delivery. Inclusion of leadership and public and community health concepts foster stronger clinical reasoning and analytic skills which promote career advancement.
The baccalaureate degree in nursing programs at Farmingdale State College, SUNY is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). CCNE is located at 655 K Street NW, Suite 750, Washington DC 20001; phone 202-887-6791 and registered and accredited by the New York State Education Department Office of the Professions.
Typical Employment Opportunities
Registered nurses with a Bachelor degree are prepared to assume leadership responsibilities in the roles of provider of care, manager of care, and member of the profession.
Nursing RN to BS Completion Program Goals:
Contribute to meeting current and future health care needs of diverse populations of the region by educating students to provide safe, evidence-based, and patient-centered professional nursing services that reflect ethical clinical judgment and interprofessional collaboration in varied settings.
Provide a quality program in nursing education including, activities, and service programs that are supportive of the learning needs of diverse students so that they may accomplish their educational goals and encourage lifelong learning.
Use health care technologies, information systems, and technological innovations to create stimulating environments that support and enrich learning and prepare graduates for changes in the health care environment.
Provide an environment that supports academic and teaching excellence, scholarly activities, and opportunities for leadership and contributions to the nursing profession.
Educate students to become self-aware, ethical, caring, collaborative, and clinically and culturally competent practitioners prepared to engage in nursing as caregivers and leaders.
Nursing RN to BS Completion Program Outcomes:
At the completion of the RN to BS Completion Program, graduates will:
- Synthesize knowledge from liberal arts and sciences, humanities and nursing to provide holistic and patient centered care that promotes empowerment and optimal well-being of individuals, families and communities.
- Practice professional nursing incorporating caring, respect, diversity, integrity, ethics, and the influences of human responses on illness, suffering and healing to assist individuals, families and communities to achieve maximal fulfillment.
- Demonstrate knowledge, critical thinking, and evidence-based clinical judgments to provide therapeutic nursing care interventions for patients throughout the lifespan, for families and communities with multiple and complex health stressors in a variety of settings.
- Use effective communication to collaborate with patients, colleagues, and members of the interprofessional health team to improve health care outcomes for patients, families and communities.
- Incorporate principles of safety, health information technology, organizational and health care systems theory, quality improvement, and political trends in the provision of high quality and safe patient care.
- Express an identity of self as a bachelor prepared nurse and exhibit professional values and behaviors as described by ethical, legal, and professional standards of practice.
- Apply leadership, advocacy, and management strategies in multiple settings to advocate for high quality, safe, accessible, and fiscally responsible healthcare.
- Participate in activities that contribute to advancement of the profession including developing autonomy, advocacy, activism, change, and responsible citizenship.
- Integrate evidence-based findings, research, and nursing theory in decision making in nursing practice.
- Engage in self-reflection and life-long learning to maintain competence as a member of the profession and to achieve personal goals for professional development.
Curriculum Pattern
Admission to Farmingdale State College - State University of New York is based on the qualifications of the applicant without regard to age, sex, marital or military status, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, disability or sexual orientation.
Contact Information
Nursing
Dr. Lori Goodstone
Gleeson Hall, Room 204
934-420-2229
nursing@farmingdale.edu
Monday-Friday 8:30am-5:00pm
| Liberal Arts and Sciences | (60 credits) |
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| EGL 101 Composition I: College Writing | 3 |
| EGL 102 Composition II: Writing About Literature | 3 |
| BIO 170 Human Anatomy and Physiology I (GE) | 4 |
| BIO 171 Human Anatomy and Physiology II (GE) | 4 |
| BIO 318 Medical Microbiology | 4 |
| BIO 240 Bioethics | 3 |
| American/Western/Other World Civilizations (GE) | 3 |
| MTH 110 Statistics (GE) | 3 |
| Foreign Language - Level II (GE) | 3 |
| PSY 101 Introduction to Psychology | 3 |
| PSY 232 Child Development | 3 |
| SOC 228 Society and Health | 3 |
| SPE 202 Interpersonal Communications (GE) | 3 |
| The Arts (GE) | 3 |
| Humanities (GE) | 3 |
| Liberal Arts & Sciences Electives | 12 |
| Required: Nursing | (60 credits) |
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| NUR 205 Art of Nursing in Professional Practice | 3 |
| NUR 215W Developing Nurses' Ways of Knowing | 3 |
| NUR 301 Caring for Populations in the Community Setting | 4 |
| NUR 305 Health Promotion and Patient Education | 3 |
| NUR 315 Healthcare Organization | 3 |
| NUR 401 Modes of Inquiry | 3 |
| NUR 404 Nurse as Advocate and Change Agent | 3 |
| NUR 406 Senior Leadership Practicum | 5 |
| Nursing Transfer Credits | 34 |
| Total Credits | 120 |
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Curriculum Summary
Degree Type: BS
Total Required Credits: 120
Please refer to the General Education, Applied Learning, and Writing Intensive requirement
sections of the College Catalog and consult with your advisor to ensure that graduation
requirements are satisfied.
As a part of the SUNY General Education Framework, all first-time full time Freshman
at Farmingdale State College (FSC) beginning Fall 2023, are required to develop knowledge
and skills in Diversity: Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice (DEISJ). Students will
be able to fulfill this requirement at FSC by taking a specially designated DEISJ
course that has been developed by faculty and approved by the DEISJ Review Board.
DEISJ-approved courses may meet other General Education Knowledge and Skills areas
and/or core competencies and thus be dually designated. DEISJ-approved courses may
also earn other special designations such as those for Applied Learning or Writing
Intensive.
| Notes: |
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To continue in the nursing program a grade of C+ or better must be maintained in all nursing courses and a C is required in BIO 318.