Nursing Information Sessions:

RN to BSN PROGRAM

For Registered Nurses with an Associate's Degree in Nursing or Diploma*, who wish to pursue the BSN at Sonoma State University

PURPOSE
The RN to BSN program is designed to utilize the maximum community college transfer credits from the ADN program to meet the BSN degree requirements.  The RN to BSN curriculum (see below) builds on existing nursing knowledge and skills with courses in complex professional perspectives, multifaceted health assessment, community health theory and clinical, research and evidence-based-practice, leadership and management, and sociopolitical perspectives in the health care environment. 
Courses are delivered in a hybrid format (in classroom and online) or entirely online with minimal requirements for on campus meetings (usually at beginning and/or end of semester).  No clinical or theory courses completed for the ADN are repeated and the only required clinical is the community/public health practicum (one full day per week over one 15-week semester). 
The RN to BSN program can be completed in three semesters of full-time enrollment, or four to five semesters of part-time enrollment, when all lower division SSU General Education transfer requirements have been met prior to admission.

 

APPLICATION AND ADMISSION

Interested RNs should attend a regularly scheduled RB to BSN Information Session at SSU as soon as possible to thoroughly review requirements, clarify personal academic history in relation to BSN degree requirements and have questions answered.  Check the Nursing Department web site for dates and location.

Two separate applications are required: the regular SSU Application and the Nursing Supplemental Application.  The University application should be submitted November through January of the academic year prior to Fall admission.  The Nursing Supplemental Application should be submitted by April 1st.  Students are admitted to the program in fall term only.    

To be admitted to the RN to BSN program the applicant must meet:

Standard SSU transfer admission criteria.

1. Current California licensure as a Registered Nurse.
2. Minimum of 3 semester units of college-transferable credit in general chemistry with a grade C or better.
3. Human anatomy and physiology within the past 10 years or direct clinical nursing experience within the past two years.
   
   

REQUIRED CURRICULUM

Current Full-Time Progression (a six-semester PT sequence is also available)

*Psych 302 is a required Support Course and also an Upper Division GE course. It can be taken prior to admission or in fall or spring semester or course equivalency can be granted through CLEP (examination) for “Human Growth and Development.”

 

Please note that curriculum revision is proceeding to further recognize nursing course work completed at the ADN level and provide a path from ADN to MSN with the option of “stopping out” and award of the BSN.  Admitted students are always provided the opportunity to meet revised (“new”) curriculum requirements when they are implemented and to the student’s advantage.