Nursing RN to BSN

Students apply to the RN-to-BSN program as a transfer student, using the Rhode Island College Transfer Application. Students can enroll to begin in fall or spring and can complete the program in as little as one year.

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Application Requirements for All Candidate Types

The Nursing BSN portion of our College Catalog provides the specific application requirements for all candidates.

Course Descriptions

Additional Resources

Sample Plan of Study

Nursing RN to BSN Advisement Form / Degree Requirements Checklist

BSN Program Outcomes

• Demonstrate clinical judgment and innovation supported by established and evolving nursing knowledge, ways of knowing, and knowledge from other disciplines.
• Provide person-centered care across the organization/systems for patients, communities and populations, including family or important others to promote positive health outcomes.
• Integrate population health concepts spanning public health prevention to disease management to promote the improvement of equitable population health outcomes at the local, regional, national, and global levels.
• Demonstrate the ability to synthesize and apply current evidence that guides clinical practice and patient care decisions.
• Demonstrate knowledge and use of established and emerging principles of safety science in care delivery.
• Demonstrate interprofessional person-centered care that reflects core professional values including altruism, caring, ethics, roles and responsibilities, shared accountability, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Apply knowledge of systems, fiscal impact, social determinants of health, health promotion, improved access, social justice, and systemic racism to improve the health of diverse populations.
• Use information and communication technologies and informatics processes to improve the delivery of safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services in accordance with professional and regulatory standards.
• Acquire a sustainable professional nursing identity that includes self-reflective practice, advocacy, accountability, a collaborative disposition, and ethical comportment that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values.
• Demonstrate a capacity for leadership that includes a commitment to activities that foster personal health, resilience and lifelong learning.