RN to BSN

Another way to obtain your BSN is through the RN to BSN track. There are two ways to obtain your RN to BSN. One method is for nurses who currently hold an unincumbered nursing license or a student from an affiliated ADN program who want to continue in school to receive their BSN. The RN to BSN track can be completed in as few as four semesters or completed at your own pace. Courses are offered online, except for one clinical course. The faculty uses a variety of teaching tools for every learning style. Clinical experiences include participating in online simulations, working with preceptors, and developing quality improvement projects. Our RN to BSN Coordinator is available to advise and guide you every step of the way.

Meet your RN to BSN Advisor

Hello, my name is Mason Kochanski, and I am SVSU's RN to BSN Coordinator and Advisor. I am an SVSU graduate with a bachelor's degree in health science, and I am continuing my educational journey at SVSU pursuing my master's degree. 

During all four years of my undergraduate schooling, I served as the student assistant coach for the SVSU men's basketball team.  I was a member of the Health Professions Association and served as a mentor for the Pre-Health Freshman Mentor Program.

I worked as a student employee in the College of Health & Human Services Dean's office assisting the previous RN to BSN Coordinator.  I also have experience working as a medical assistant in a rehabilitation center.

I have a passion and drive for helping others and seeing them accomplish their goals. It is my pleasure to work with registered nurses and nursing students who want to further their education and obtain their BSN degree.  

SVSU has a capable team that works together to guide, teach, care for, and mentor our students. Each step of the way, we will be there to help you plan your schedule and register you for classes. We will go above and beyond to help you accomplish your goals; the sky is the limit! You can do this!

We strive to work with registered nurses and nursing students to develop an individualized program that will allow students to obtain their BSN degree while balancing their work, school, and personal lives and succeeding in all their educational endeavors. 

Mason Kochanski
RN to BSN Coordinator

Bachand Hall 249
989-964-4184
mpkocha1@svsu.edu

BSN Program Outcomes

• The graduate has the knowledge of nursing practice as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences.
• The graduate utilizes person-centered care that focuses on the individual within multiple complicated contexts, including family and/or important others.
• The graduate promotes population health that spans the healthcare delivery continuum for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes. 
• The graduate fosters the generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care.
• The graduate cultivates quality and safety by employment of established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science.
• The graduate participates in intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience and strengthen outcomes.
• The graduate responds and leads within complex systems of health care to provide safe, quality, equitable care to diverse populations.
• The graduate utilizes information and communication technologies and informatics processes to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision-making, and support professionals.
• The graduate forms and cultivates a sustainable professional nursing identity, accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values.
• The graduate participates in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being, lifelong learning, and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and assertion of leadership.