Nursing in School of Science & Technology Sonoma State University
Sonoma State University is a public institution, a college of liberal arts and mixed companies affiliated with the system of the California State University. The main campus is located in Rohnert Park, California, United States and is located approximately 10 miles (16 km) south of Santa Rosa and forty-five minutes north of San Francisco. Commonly known as SSU, Sonoma State, and Sonoma, the University is one of the smallest of the 23-campus California State University. The university offers 65 undergraduate and graduate and boasts of being the most sought-campus CSU system. Sonoma State College was established by the State Legislature in 1960 to serve on the State College system in California, which later became the California State University system. Courses offered by the university opened its doors to 250 students in June 1961 in leased buildings in Rohnert Park where the college offered its first four year Bachelor of Arts degree in elementary education.With the completion of its two main classrooms, Stevenson Hall, named for Adlai E. Policy Stevenson and Darwin Hall, Charles Darwin, developer of the Theory of Natural Selection, the college moved
Nursing Department
For more than 20 years, SSU has been preparing graduate level nurses to respond to society's needs for professionals who influence the structure of emerging patterns of health care practice and delivery.
The curriculum includes a core of instruction with an emphasis on theoretical and conceptual foundations of nursing practice, research, professional issues and leadership. One option within the MSN curriculum offers specialization as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP), with emphasis on advanced clinical primary care practice. A second option, Nursing Leadership and Management, prepares nurses for executive leadership functions and responsibilities and includes specialty focus in Nursing Administration, Education, or Clinical Nurse Leader.
In addition to the above qualifications, FNP applicants must also have:
- College-level physiology course within the past 7 years (challenge mechanism available)
- Upper-division physical assessments course within the past 3 years
- Community health nursing course
- Two years' experience as an RN preferred
Minimum qualifications to apply:
- RN, Licensed in California
- BSN Degree*
- Overall GPA of 3.0 in last 60 units
- College level statistics course
