B.S. in Nursing: About, Accreditation and Outcomes

The nursing program is registered and accredited by the New York State Board of Regents. 

has provisional institutional membership in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and plans to apply for accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education in Fall 2025. 

Program Mission 

The nursing program will prepare diverse, culturally competent registered professional nurses to lead lives of kindness, generosity and integrity and to provide excellent, patient-centered health care for patients from all cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. The nursing program mission will be accomplished through the provision of a nurturing learning environment, excellence in teaching and learning, service to the community and the delivery of evidence-based nursing education. 

Program Outcomes 

1. Integrate, translate and apply knowledge from nursing and the liberal arts and sciences to inform clinical judgement and professional nursing practice.  

2. Implement the nursing process for decision-making, to provide holistic person-centered care to individuals, families and populations.  

3. Plan care through collaborative activities that promotes health equity and improved health outcomes for individuals and populations throughout the health care continuum.  

4. Participate in scholarly inquiry to identify best evidence for professional nursing practice to promote health equity and improve patient outcomes. 

5. Demonstrate knowledge and behaviors that are based on quality-improvement principles and standards to promote a culture of safety.  

6. Collaborate with members of the interprofessional team with an understanding of team dynamics, respect and the unique contribution of each member to deliver person-centered care and improve healthcare outcomes.  

7. Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between internal and external system processes, such as healthcare, financial, regulatory policies and metrics that influence the coordination and delivery of safe, equitable care to diverse populations. 

8. Use information technology to generate and support evidence-based practice and clinical decision-making to improve health outcomes and equitable access for patients, families and populations. 

9. Demonstrate professionalism and accountability by developing a professional identity that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values.  

10. Engage in activities and self-reflection that demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning and personal, professional and leadership development. 

Nursing Competencies

The Essentials: Core competencies for professional nursing education provide the framework for competency-based nursing education. These competencies are made up of ten domains, four spheres of care, and eight foundational concepts (American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN], 2021). These essentials serve as the framework for the Katz School's nursing program outcomes; all course outlines and course objectives are aligned with the AACN essential domains, competencies and concepts.

DOMAINS (AACN, 2021)  

• Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice: Integration, translation and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in the liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This distinguishes the practice of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice. (p. 27)  
• Domain 2: Person-Centered Care: Person-centered care focuses on the individual within multiple, complicated contexts, including family and important others. Person-centered care is holistic, individualized, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based and developmentally appropriate. Person-centered care builds on a scientific body of knowledge that guides nursing practice regardless of specialty or functional area. (p. 29)  
• Domain 3: Population Health: Population health spans the healthcare delivery continuum from public health prevention to disease management of populations and describes collaborative activities with traditional and nontraditional nursing partnerships from affected communities, public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities and others for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes. (p. 33) 
• Domain 4: Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline: The generation, synthesis, translation, application and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care. (p. 37)
• Domain 5: Quality and Safety: Employment of established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science. Quality and safety, as core values of nursing practice, enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to nursing patients and providers through system effectiveness and individual performance. (p. 39)
• Domain 6: Interprofessional Nursing Partnerships: Intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, nursing patients, families, communities and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience and strengthen outcomes. (p. 42)  
• Domain 7: Systems-Based Practice: Responding to and leading within complex systems of health care. Nurses effectively and proactively coordinate resources to provide safe, quality, and equitable care to diverse populations. (p. 44) 
• Domain 8: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies: Information and communication technologies and informatics processes are used to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision making, and support professionals as they expand knowledge and wisdom for practice. Informatics processes and technologies are used to manage and improve the delivery of safe, high-quality and efficient healthcare services in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards. (p. 46) 
• Domain 9: Professionalism: Formation and cultivation of a sustainable professional identity, including accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition and comportment that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values. (p. 49) 
• Domain 10: Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development: Nursing participation in activities and self-reflection that fosters personal health, resilience and well-being, contributes to lifelong learning and supports the acquisition of nursing expertise and the assertion of leadership. (p. 53) 

FOUR SPHERES OF CARE

1. Disease prevention/promotion of health and well-being
2. Chronic disease care
3. Regenerative or restorative care
4. Hospice/Nursing palliative/supportive care

CONCEPTS FOR NURSING PRACTICE 

• Clinical Judgement
• Compassionate Care
• Communication
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion  
• Ethics  
• Evidence-Based Practice  
• Health Policy  
• Social Determinants of Health  

American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2021). .
 

Upon successful completion of all nursing program requirements and graduation, students will be eligible to take the NCLEX licensing exam. The nursing program will publish the NCLEX performance data of its graduates by publishing the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) Pass Rate Report. The inaugural class NCLEX performance data will be published in Spring 2026.  

The nursing program will publish the student attrition rates annually on the chart below following the graduation of the inaugural class. 

Nursing program policies are available for review here:

Nursing Student Handbook, 2024-2025.pdf

The Office of Student Finance maintains current tuition and fees and refund policies and procedures for all undergraduate programs. All applicants are automatically considered for scholarships. You do not need to submit any additional information. Awards are determined during the application review process.

The nursing programs at the Katz School of Science and Health prioritize individual dignity and will promote a culture of diversity, inclusivity and equity in a supportive learning environment. We are committed to creating a community that recognizes and embraces diverse backgrounds and identities with our faculty, students and staff. 

Every student, faculty member, patient and their family will be treated with respect, dignity and professionalism. We do not tolerate or condone discrimination. 

We are committed to delivering health care and education in a manner that respects diversity and inclusivity with the full intent of achieving better health, happiness, quality of life and communication outcomes for all.