Nursing, Bachelor of Science

The nursing program in St. John’s University’s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences provides a stellar education within the context of our Catholic and Vincentian tradition, which is rich in its perspectives of human dignity, freedom, justice, truth, and respect for the natural world. This is a licensure qualifying program open to applicants with good moral character and demonstrated academic ability. The B.S. in Nursing program offers the following: individualized student attention from distinguished faculty and practicing nurses a curriculum that hones the high-level critical thinking skills necessary for the attainment of RN licensure preparation for culturally competent practice and leadership in service to the community specialized advisement and faculty mentors for guidance and support clinical experiences in acute, ambulatory, critical care, and community-based settings a new Health Sciences Center that includes modern classrooms, skills labs and common areas for students. a state-of-the-art Simulation Center with high-fidelity simulation manikins that provide learning opportunities for students to apply classroom instruction to real-life patient care. direct admission from high school

Complete and submit an online application; Include a statement of activity if you have a gap in your education of more than three months between your graduation date and date of application submission; An essay and recommendation letters are strongly encouraged, but not required, for all programs except for Pharmacy, which requires both; Official academic records and/or official certificates/results from the Ministry of Education or secondary school in original language with official English translation; Official examination results (if taken) from the examining board (i.e., International Baccalaureate, General Certificate of Education, Caribbean Examinations Council, West African Examinations Council). Students who are home-schooled outside of the US need to submit a NACES member course-by-course evaluation.