Useful Links

Program Information Sessions
Transfer Course Equivalencies List
Acceptable Courses
Cost
Financial Information
FAQ
Prerequisite Checklist

Student Handbook

Pre-Licensure Clinical Placement & Experience Team
UConn's Office of Clinical Placement Coordination

Program Purpose

The objectives of the CEIN/BS program are the ability to:

• Synthesize knowledge from the arts, sciences, humanities, and the discipline of nursing into the practice of nursing.
• Demonstrate professional comportment, attitudes, and related skills needed to practice safely, artfully, responsibly, humbly, and accountably within caring, legal, ethical and professional parameters.
• Evaluate personal systems in relation to those espoused by the profession at large in order to best serve the needs of diverse patient populations and to contribute to a culture of wellness.
• Design, organize, deliver, and continuously improve care for individuals, families, and communities using health information technology, innovation, and all ways of knowing.
• Demonstrate initiative and self-direction generated by a spirit of innovative inquiry with integrity.
• Compassionately address resource demands for the provision of patient care that is safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient and family-centered.
• Formulate and articulate a philosophy of nursing that incorporates praxis, caring, cultural humility, inclusivity, and ways of knowing.
• Through teamwork and collaboration, partner with appropriate stakeholders to advocate for, and to optimize the health of, all people by responding to emerging health care challenges as new opportunities.