Overview

We are not currently admitting students to the RN to BS online track.

Even though it’s a clinical practice, nursing is a creative profession. It requires you to communicate clearly and convincingly, to ask the right questions and draw upon your imagination to find answers and solve problems. URI’s RN to BS in Nursing Online prepares you to become the kind of big thinker that 21st century healthcare needs.

You’ll get unique practical knowledge and a research-based, science-focused academic experience that can only be offered by one of New England’s most recognized universities. You’ll gain valuable insight from the same professors who teach on our campus, and who, despite the time they contribute to their community and to advancing nursing as a whole, are incredibly accessible when you need them.

Learning from top educators and pioneering researchers, you will gain a strong foundation of practical knowledge that prepares you to understand and manage the complexity of our changing healthcare environment. The perspective and discipline offered by this program give you a whole new way to practice nursing — one that prepares you for a career as a health educator and advocate fully empowered to make a real impact on the health of your community.

Bachelor of Science Program Outcomes

• Knowledge for Nursing Practice: Integrate and apply nursing knowledge supported by knowledge from liberal arts and sciences to enrich nursing practice
• Person-Centered Care: Implement holistic, just, compassionate, person-centered, evidence-based nursing care to individuals and families across the lifespan and spheres of care.
• Population Health: Use principles of social justice, advocacy, and collaboration to promote equitable care for individuals, families, communities, and populations, from prevention to disease management, through partnerships that address social determinants of health and improve population health outcomes.
• Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline: Engage in scholarly inquiry and critically appraise research as the foundation to deliver evidence-based nursing practice.
• Quality and Safety: Use principles of quality and safety as core values of nursing to enhance practice and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers.
• Interprofessional Partnerships: Engage with individuals, families, communities, health care professionals, and other colleagues to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and improve outcomes.
• Systems-Based Practice: Coordinate and utilize resources in healthcare settings to provide safe, quality, equitable, and value- based care to diverse populations.
• Informatics and Healthcare Technologies: Use healthcare technology to gather and interpret data, form information to support clinical judgment, provide care, and improve interprofessional communication that enhances healthcare delivery in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.
• Professionalism: Cultivate a professional identity and conduct grounded in nursing core values of compassionate caring, a collaborative disposition, civility, accountability, ethics and social justice for exemplary practice.
• Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development: Engage in wellness by participating 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 leadership.

Contact our office at RNBSonline@uri.edu or 401-874-5303

Curriculum

The University of Rhode Island RN to BS in Nursing online gives you the skills you need to advance the nursing profession and promote health throughout your community. The curriculum, which is science-focused and research intensive, features 24 core credit hours that can be completed in as few as 15 months.  Combination of on-campus and online course curriculum is not permitted for the RN to BS online program.

The RN to BS program requires 120 credits for graduation. Credits from other accredited colleges are accepted; however the student must complete at least 30 credits at URI in order to earn the B.S. degree in nursing. Students can transfer up to 75 credits at the associates level and 15 credits at the baccalaureate level for a potential total of 90 transfer credits. A grade of C or better is required in all starred (*) courses (see curriculum sheet below). A minimum 2.2GPA is required to progress through the program and to graduate.

Contact our office at RNBSonline@uri.edu or 401-874-5303

Curriculum Sheets

Course Descriptions