Nursing Dual Enrollment A.A.S./B.S.

Why SUNY Morrisville Dual Enrollment Nursing?

SUNY Morrisville offers an integrated educational experience that progresses from general education through RN licensure to baccalaureate completion. General education courses are completed early in the process so you can focus on your nursing coursework and gaining hands-on clinical experience.

The associate degree is conferred at the end of your third year, at which point you will qualify to sit for the NCLEX-RN exam and obtain licensure. The final year of your degree will be spent completing upper-level coursework, earning your bachelor's degree.

Skills You Will Gain

Upon successful completion of the Nursing A.A.S. degree, you will be able to:

• Advocate for the patient and their families to promote a partnership in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
• Conduct self in a way that reflects integrity, responsibility, and ethical practices necessary to function effectively within nursing and interdisciplinary teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect and shared decision-making to achieve safe and quality patient care.
• Use their clinical reasoning ability to integrate nursing science in the provision of safe and quality care necessary to minimize risk of harm to patients, family, and providers.
• Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise based on the patient and family’s values and preferences for delivery of optimal healthcare.
• Examine the evidence that supports clinical practice and question underlying assumptions necessary to improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
• Make judgements in practice based on information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

Upon successful completion of the Nursing B.S. degree, you will be able to: 

• Integrate theories and concepts from the arts, humanities and sciences into the professional nursing identity.
• Examine the role of information literacy as it applies to the provision of quality nursing care within a diverse multicultural environment.
• Apply legal, moral, and ethical leadership principles, including interprofessional communication, collaboration, and delegation to support quality outcomes in the nursing profession.
• Appraise identified social determinants and healthcare disparities as they relate to diversity, equity, and inclusive policies.
• Analyze research and evidence-based practice methods to formulate population-focused interventions.

What Can I Do in Nursing?

With a B.S. degree in nursing, you will be prepared to serve individuals, communities, and populations in diverse and rapidly changing health care environments as a leader, scholar and nursing advocate with careers such as:

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