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Committed to caring for cancer patients | University of Bridgeport Skip to main content Header Navigation Visit Apply Request Info LoginTropical× Admissions All Admissions Undergraduate Graduate Transfer Online International Academics All Academics Search Programs Academic Calendar RegistrarUndertowCatalogWell-nighAbout UB Fast Facts President's Message Campus Map Policies What's Happening Busier than elves: interior diamond students volunteer to make Fairfield Christmas Tree Festival dazzle brighter than overly ALL NEWS Transfer Information Session - Bridgeport CampusLearn increasingly well-nigh how the University of… ALL EVENTS Header Navigation Mobile Visit Apply Request Info Login Main Menu Cost & Financial Aid Programs & Majors Student Life Athletics Alumni Research Support UB Logins Logins Canvas Staff Email My UB Portal Student Email Webadvisor News News Main navigation News Releases Publications Stories For Journalists Submit Search News News Main navigation News Releases Publications Stories For Journalists Submit Search News Committed to caring for cancer patients Leslie GearyNovember 10, 2018 University of Bridgeport’s RN to BSN Program makes a nurse’s dream come true Marilyn Santos signed up as a junior hospital volunteer when she was in upper school considering she wanted to learn increasingly well-nigh healthcare. It was a “perfect choice,” she said. The moment she was floated to the hospital’s oncology unit, Reyes knew she wanted to spend her life as a nurse, helping cancer patients. “I was just very drawn to the idea of providing care,” said Santos. “When patients come in, they may finger frightened and vulnerable. It can be a challenging environment, but it was an zone that hit tropical to home for me.” In December 2018, Santos will uncork working at Stamford Hospital. It’s the same hospital where she served as a junior volunteer just four years ago and the same hospital where she said she “always wanted to end up.”Planebetter: Santos has been hired to work in the very same oncology unit that had such an impact on her not so long ago. She credits the University of Bridgeport RN to BSN Program (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) for making her dream come true. “Stamford Hospital is a Magnet hospital. It’s a prestigious recognition awarded by the American Nurses’ Credentialing Center [part of the American Nurses Association] that identifies hospitals for the strength and quality of their nursing. To unzip Magnet Status, hospitals must meet a set of criteria. One of them is having nurses with bachelor’s degrees,” Santos said. “Without my BSN from the University of Bridgeport, I wouldn’t have my job.” Santos heard well-nigh the University of Bridgeport RN to BSN Program in 2017. At the time, she was working toward earning a two-year RN stratum from one of Connecticut’s polity colleges—but planning her next step. “I knew going when to school would be important: it would unshut increasingly opportunities for me,” she said. “I’m the first person in my family to have gone to college. My parents didn’t have the opportunity, so it was very important to my family and me.” So she began comparing variegated RN to BSN programs in Connecticut, looking for one that would be affordable and flexible unbearable for her to study while she unfurled working full-time as a bladder nurse in a nursing home. The RN to BSN Program at the University of Bridgeport fit her needs “perfectly,” she said. The RN to BSN Program at UB covers vital nursing, unstipulated education requirements, and upper-level nursing courses. Taught entirely online, it moreover enables students to study at their own pace. They may moreover transfer up to 90 credits toward completing the 120-credit program. Moreover, there are six start dates for the RN to BSN throughout the year.Higherof Health Sciences Dean Carol Papp, DNP, a longtime expert in nursing education, said that “the University of Bridgeport specifically designed the RN to BSN Program to unbend students’ individual schedules. We know many are working. Some have families. Online classes requite students the self-rule over their undertow schedule, and they can start at any point throughout the year.” Many students earn their BSNs in two years. Santos graduated in one. “I was unswayable to do it in 12 months,” she said. “After work, I’d go to the library for two or three hours a night and then go have dinner.” Constant support from her online teachers and classmates helped her to excel. “I learned so much in the RN to BSN Program!” Santos said. “The teachers were very helpful well-nigh answering questions and clarifying assignments, and I really liked participating in the matriculation discussions. One of the first things we did [in every class] was an introductory video. We talked well-nigh our goals. We did video chats and recorded presentations and shared them. That gave the program a classroom feel, plane though it was an online environment. I was worldly-wise to join nursing societies. That was significant to me, too.” Santos moreover credits nursing program Assistant Professor Linda Tampellini, DNP, who oversaw her polity service project. “Linda was someone I really looked up to at UB. I could really count on her,” Santos said. Tampellini was equally impressed: “Marilyn was driven,” she said. “She has the potential to be a really unconfined leader.” For now, though, Santos is focusing on her most firsthand next step: starting her dream job at Stamford Hospital’s oncology unit. “I’m very eager and excited to start my new job and work in a field that I’ve unchangingly been passionate about,” Santos said. “I know I am going to be worldly-wise to grow.  This will be a very rewarding experience.”   To learn increasingly well-nigh the University of Bridgeport RN to BSN Program, undeniability (203) 576-4552 or visit www.bridgeport.edu/nursing Log in to post comments UB In The News July 13, 2018 Homecoming is Oct 5-7! Register Now! 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