The answer depends of the type and amount of education you have had to date. A baccalaureate degree is, in essence, two years of liberal arts course work and two years of nursing. This assumes full-time study; part-time study would of course extend the time frame. Course work beyond the associate's degree would most likely shorten the timeframe.

Graduates from a diploma program may have also already completed up to a year of liberal arts study, if their core courses were provided under the auspices of a college or university. With a year of liberal arts completed, diploma graduates could also expect to need one more year of liberal arts and one year of nursing to obtain a BSN. If no college credits were awarded in the diploma program, there are many innovative options for earning college credit at SUNY Brockport. If you provide us with transcripts of all your previous course work, we will evaluate these for you at no cost. This evaluation will assess total transferable credits and outline your individual progress in meeting the College's and Department of Nursing's requirements. You can then discuss the results of this evaluation with your nursing advisor and devise a course of action.

The General Education Program is designed to provide you with the broad background and flexibility that are essential to survival in a rapidly changing world. The program requires course work in a diverse range of areas. If you have prior college-level preparation, you may already have met many of these requirements. Based on your transcript evaluation, your faculty advisor can help you identify which General Education requirements you have yet to complete.

Before beginning clinical nursing courses, you must have completed a minimum of 54 liberal arts credits. Professional nursing education builds on a firm foundation in the liberal arts and sciences. Therefore, a substantial portion of these courses must be completed prior to entering the clinical component of the program. Your faculty advisor can help you design a schedule that ensures you accumulate the College's General Education requirements while at the same time accumulating these 54 credits.

The nursing prerequisites are as follows:

Prerequisites	Credits
Anatomy and Physiology	6-8
Microbiology	4
Nutrition	3
Statistics	3
Sociology	3
Psychology	3
Developmental Psychology (Lifespan)	3

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Our admissions and entry requirements also include the following:

1. Graduate of an accredited associate degree or diploma program.
2. Current New York State RN licensure.
3. Currently employed as a registered nurse.
4. Current CPR certification at the BLS for Professional (Red Cross) Rescuer or Health Provider (AHA) level.
5. A cumulative grade point average of at least 2.5.
6. Successful completion of nursing prerequisites with a minimum grade of "C" (2.0) in each course.
7. Submission of an acceptable application form. (i.e., satisfactory references and health form).
8. Interview with program director.

You must apply to Brockport and be accepted to the college prior to being officially accepted to The Nursing Program. Once you receive your acceptance letter from the college, you will then submit a separate application to the Department of Nursing.

Registered nurse students are encouraged to begin the nursing courses in the fall or spring semester. It is possible for you to take courses as a non-matriculated student. Remember that advisement by the department does not imply availability of a course. You need to register for courses as early possible. You will eventually need to submit an application to SUNY Brockprot and become a matriculated student at the College. The application is on our website.

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Absolutely! Our major for RNs consists of 54 credits. Of these 54, you may receive 30 credits by one of two mechanisms:

We have transfer agreements with Alfred State College and Finger Lakes, Genesee and Monroe Community College.

If you received an AAS from a community college with whom we have a transfer agreement and want to transfer 64 credits, your previous course work has been evaluated as being equivalent to 30 credits worth of courses in our junior-year curriculum. If you have more than 64 credits from one or more of these community colleges, you will need to take a Web-based challenge exam. This exam is necessary to allow the 30 credits to be recorded as credit by exam, thus allowing more non-nursing credits to transfer. Before accessing the test, you must apply to and be accepted by the nursing department. Once this has been done, you can complete the test as directed by your advisor. The 30credits will be credited to your transcript after you have successfully passed the challenge exam and begin to take your first clinical course at SUNY Brockport. Challenge Exam!

Some general education courses can be challenged via a standardized college testing program. Your advisor will be able to guide you appropriately if this option would be advantageous to you.

The choice of full-time or part-time options allows you to decide how much time per week you can devote to your studies in view of your life responsibilities. The full-time schedule can usually be completed in two semesters; the part-time schedule usually extends over at least three semesters. Much depends of the number of non-nursing courses a student needs.

Course	Credit	Title
NUR 321	2	Pharmacology
NUR 344	1	Health Assessment
NUR 345	1	Health Assessment/Clinical
PRO 310	3	Research Process
NUR 451	3	Issues in Leadership + Management
NUR 471	3	Community Based Epidemology
NUR 472	2	Community Based Epidemology/Clinical
NUR 473	4	Nursing Seminar I
NUR 475	2	Nursing Seminar II
PRO 407	3	Transcultural Issues in Health

Yes. The College's residency requirement mandates that 30 of the student's credits must be completed in credit bearing courses by SUNY Brockport. Challenge credit cannot be used to compute residency requirements.

Students will be eligible for a Bachelor of Science upon completion of the following:

1. a minimum of 120 credits with a minimum academic average of 2.0 and a maximum of 54 credits in nursing.
2. a minimum of 48 credits in upper-division courses.
3. 60 credits in liberal arts courses.
4. all General Education requirements.
5. all course requirements of the nursing major, with a minimum grade of "75" in each nursing course.
6. Enrollment in and completion of the RN/BS courses at SUNY Brockport.
7. of all degree requirements within five years after beginning the clinical component of the major.

As you progress in your studies at the College, you will be assisted in assessing your progress towards graduation requirements by a Degree Audit Reporting System. This DARS is an updated summary of your progress each semester. You should review this with your academic advisor before registering for courses. You will receive a copy of this assessment. Please note, however, that the final responsibility for meeting all graduation requirements remains with the student.

You should meet regularly with your advisor to identify any problems as early as possible. In our experience, the most frequent problem is underestimating the number of non-nursing credits needed to graduate. Since College policy states that you may apply a maximum of 54 credits from any one discipline to the 120 credits required for graduation, this means that you will need at least 66 non-nursing credits to graduate.

This Web site provides only an introduction. It's certain that other questions or concerns will arise as you complete your BSN. You will find the following three College publications particularly helpful in providing further details on College policies and requirements:

1. Your Right to Know and Academic Policies Handbook. This annual publication is a compendium of information regarding health, safety, rights of privacy, services for the disabled, affirmative action policies and academic eligibility for financial aid. It can be accessed under Publications on the College website.
2. Undergraduate Studies – current edition. This official catalog includes the academic calendar, financial information, a summary of degree requirements, an overview of each major, and descriptions for all courses currently offered at our institution.
3. Student Handbook: Department of Nursing. General information and policies specific to the nursing program are presented, along with an orientation to our educational philosophy, program objectives and curriculum. This publication can be accessed at the nursing website.

The first two publications can be obtained in the Office of Academic Advisement, located in the Rakov Center for Student Services. The third is available from the Department of Nursing website. We hope you'll feel free to schedule an appointment with your faculty advisor whenever needed. We pride ourselves on our concern for our students, a concern evident not only in the classroom, but also in our system of advisement. The Department of Nursing phone number is (585)395-2355. The RN Program Coordinator is Dr. Margie Lovett-Scott, (585)395-5316 or email: mlovetts@brockport.edu.