Nursing Generalist, BSN / Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing (NY)

Program: BSNG and BSNY

The Bachelor of Science Nurse Generalist Program is a comprehensive eight semester programs designed to promote the development of professional nurses who will meet the changing needs of patients. These nurses will address the increasing needs of persons trained for complex patient care in all healthcare settings and who are prepared to address particular needs in healthcare, prevention, treatment of diseases, illnesses and conditions, and rehabilitation across the lifespan. These needs that are influencing the nursing role changes are reflected in scientific advances, changing population demographics, technologic explosion, and increasing needs to better access health care and healthcare information (AACN, 2008). Students who complete this program are eligible to sit for the RN-N.C.L.E.X. licensure exam.

Graduates of this degree plan will achieve the following program and institutional outcomes:

• Employ the nursing process to implement comprehensive, safe, quality, culturally competent, person-centered care across the lifespan in all health care settings.
• Apply knowledge, skills, professionalism, advocacy, and foundational leadership using critical thinking, evidence-based practice, and clinical judgement in providing care to individuals, groups, communities, and populations with a variety of healthcare needs
• Integrate the principles of professional nursing, ethical comportment, in the decision-making process within complex healthcare systems. 
• Practice professional nursing in a multidimensional environment with the ability to collaborate and effectively communicate with members of interdisciplinary healthcare teams from diverse backgrounds.
• Demonstrate a commitment to personal self-health and well-being, spirit of inquiry, and lifelong learning.
• Articulate how policy, advocacy, finance, and regulatory environments influence healthcare delivery.
• Implement information literacy skills through the effective use of informatics to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate errors, enhance decision making and clinical judgement to improve healthcare outcomes.
• Utilize appropriate current technology and resources to locate and evaluate information needed to accomplish a goal, and then communicate findings in visual, written and/or oral formats.
• Transfer knowledge, skills and behaviors acquired through formal and informal learning and life experiences to new situations.
• Employ strategies for reflection on learning and practice in order to adjust learning processes for continual improvement.
• Follow established methods of inquiry and mathematical reasoning to form conclusions and make decisions.
• Participate in social, academic, and professional communities for individual growth and to function as a citizen of a multicultural world.