| |
School of Nursing at Stony Brook University
The School of Nursing is one of five professional schools at the University's Health Sciences Center. The school is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) *, and offers full- and part-time educational opportunities in preparation for professional nursing practice.
The school offers two degree programs. A Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree for nurses to continue their education by preparing for advanced practice as nurse practitioners or Nurse Midwives **. Post Masters Certificate and Masters Completion options are available. Clinical experiences are currently offered in approximately three hundred sites throughout the United States, Canada, and abroad. These include our own University Hospital Medical Center.
Nursing education is based on a commitment to meet the health care needs of a complex and culturally diverse society. Such education begins with a comprehensive understanding of human interaction with the environment through a synthesis of the arts, sciences, humanities, and life experience. Faculty believe that education is a shared undertaking wherein the faculty are facilitators and the learners are active participants in knowledge development. Ongoing data collection, evaluation, and change based on sound rationale are inherent components of the educational program.
 Faculty believe that nurses must be able to facilitate change in the world's evolving health care environment through communication, negotiation, and leadership. Graduates are prepared to provide patient care, recognizing its contextual nature and to adapt evidence-based guidelines to novel circumstances through analytical skills. Faculty believe that professional nursing practice involves a systematic process of data collection, assessment, diagnosis, intervention, evaluation, and ethical sensitivity based upon a sound body of knowledge. The role of the professional nurse is multifaceted and innovative, requiring competencies in primary, secondary, and tertiary care for participation in a wide variety of settings. Cultural competence and scientific competence are integrated in nursing action.
The philosophy that guides baccalaureate education also guides graduate education. Faculty believe that nurses must be prepared for complex roles in which they function as direct providers of health care and participate as managers, consultants, educators, and researchers. Relationships among faculty, other clinical experts, preceptors and students facilitate the integration of theory, research and clinical application in the curriculum. Nursing education at Stony Brook reflects the reality of practice while preparing students with the knowledge to provide, reform and direct healthcare across a variety of settings.
School of Nursing at Stony Brook University Goals - Educate a diverse population of students for professional nursing practice in a variety of settings.
- Provide educational access to geographically dispersed students through innovative programs and evolving technologies.
- Contribute to the scholarly development of the profession through integration of theory, research, and clinical practice.
- Provide an educational foundation to promote cultural competence, ethical sensitivity, leadership and life-long learning.
- Prepare for global improvement of health care through individual, collaborative and interdisciplinary efforts.
- Provide an environment and infrastructure that supports faculty teaching, scholarship, service and practice.
- Provide a mechanism for continuous program assessment, evaluation, and improvement.
|
|
