Course Descriptions

This course examines the role of the professional nurse in pharmacological therapies for physical/mental health problems across the lifespan including an emphasis on a holistic perspective to provide safe patient-centered care. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: NUR-111, NUR-112, NUR-113 minimum grade C+. Co-requisite: BIO-172 & PSY-200 minimum grade C; NUR-121 & NUR-122 minimum grade C+.

• Nursing
• 1 Credit(s)
• (1) Contact Hour(s)

• Nursing
• 3 Credit(s)
• (3) Contact Hour(s)

This intensive, one week elective is offered during January Intersession or Summer Session to provide reality-oriented nursing practice based upon knowledge and skills accrued by nursing students during their Freshmen or Sophomore year at Finger Lakes Community College. The course is intended to permit the nursing student the curricular freedom to identify personal learning needs and initiate these learnings under the guidance of an expert clinical nursing instructor in an acute care hospital setting. This course offers the student the unique exposure to a full day or evening shift of clinical experience for a week's time, thereby allowing for continuity and intensity of clinical learning not provided in other nursing clinical laboratory courses. Prerequisite: Take NUR-100 or NUR-101; minimum grade C;

• Nursing
• 1 Credit(s)
• (2) Contact Hour(s)

This intensive, forty hour clinical make up course is required for the student in good clinical standing who has been absent for more than 10% of the required clinical hours in an FLCC required nursing courses with a clinical component. This course offers the student exposure to clinical experience with time possibly being divided between day, evening or weekend shifts thereby allowing for continuity and intensity of clinical learning. Prerequisite: Successful completion of theory component of FLCC Nursing course in which the student received an incomplete due to clinical absenteeism and recommendation of course level faculty. This course is graded S (satisfactory) or U (unsatisfactory).

• Nursing
• 1 Credit(s)
• (2) Contact Hour(s)

This course is designed for students who wish to apply their knowledge of physiology to disease states occurring across the lifespan. The course will consist of a review of the normal functioning of selected body systems, and then analysis of pathological function during disease of those systems and standard treatment for these pathological conditions. (Also listed as BIO 223) Prerequisite: Take BIO-172; minimum grade C-;

• Nursing
• 3 Credit(s)
• (3) Contact Hour(s)

This course focuses on the knowledge and skills necessary for conducting a complete nursing physical assessment. Lecture, demonstrations, small group interactions, and videotaped interviews focus on subjective assessment. Laboratory practices and audiovisual materials focus on objective assessment. Prerequisite: Take BIO-171, BIO-172, NUR-100; minimum grade C-;

• Nursing
• 3 Credit(s)
• (4) Contact Hour(s)

This course expands the concepts of health care to individuals and childbearing families experiencing complex physical health problems across the lifespan. The student will use clinical judgment, interprofessional communication and teamwork, and prioritizing interventions to provide safe patient-centered care. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: NUR-121, NUR-122, NUR-123 minimum grade C+. Co-requisite: BIO-230 minimum grade C; NUR-232 & NUR-233 minimum grade C+.

• Nursing
• 6 Credit(s)
• (3-3) Contact Hour(s)

This course will examine practice-focused leadership skills and the essential knowledge surrounding contemporary nursing topics. Emphasis is on the analysis of opportunities for patient-centered care, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, teamwork and collaboration to promote a culture of safety and quality in health care delivery. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: NUR-121, NUR-122, NUR-123 minimum grade C+. Co-requisite: BIO-230 minimum grade C; NUR-231 & NUR-233 minimum grade C+.

• Nursing
• 1 Credit(s)
• (1) Contact Hour(s)

This course will enable the student to apply pharmacological concepts to manage patients with multisystem health problems across the lifespan incorporating clinical judgment and interprofessional collaboration Prerequisite: Pre-requisite: NUR-121, NUR-122, NUR-123 minium grade C+. C0-requisite: BIO-230 minimum grade C; NUR-231& NUR-232 minimum grade C+.

• Nursing
• 2 Credit(s)
• (2) Contact Hour(s)

This course focuses on concepts and desired outcomes related to nursing management of individuals experiencing selected complex health problems with unpredictable outcomes. The student will expand the professional nursing role through increased proficiency in clinical judgment, teamwork and interprofessional collaboration, and prioritized interventions to provide safe patient-centered care. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: NUR-231, NUR-232, NUR-233 minimum grade C+. Co-requisite: NUR-242 & NUR-243 minimum grade C+.

• Nursing
• 4 Credit(s)
• (2-2) Contact Hour(s)

This course provides students with the opportunity to synthesize and integrate program concepts to develop strategies for success as a professional nurse. Includes preparing the student for the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nursing (NCLEX-RN®). Prerequisite: Prerequisite: NUR-231, NUR-232, NUR-233 minimum grade C+. Take NUR-241 NUR-243; Minimum grade C-;

• Nursing
• 2 Credit(s)
• (2) Contact Hour(s)

This course is a clinical immersion experience where the student will integrate management of care and professional competencies expected of a nurse generalist in providing safe patient-centered patient care across the lifespan under the mentorship of a Registered Professional Nurse. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: NUR-231, NUR-232, NUR-233 minimum grade C+. Take NUR-241 NUR-242; Minimum grade C-;

• Nursing
• 3 Credit(s)
• (3) Contact Hour(s)

Effective leadership is based upon awareness of self and others and confidence in communication combined with an understanding of the dynamics of the delivery system in which one assumes a leadership position. This course will include methods for understanding your leadership/coaching abilities and how to further develop these into successful skills that will position you for leadership in your future career endeavors.

• Nursing
• 3 Credit(s)
• (3) Contact Hour(s)

This course is designed for healthcare providers and nursing students who are interested in examining several different cultures in regards to heritage, family, education, occupation, communication, family roles, work force issues and spirituality. Responses to health, illness and death will also be explored. Prerequisite: ENG 101 or ENG 104. Prerequisite: Take ENG-101; minimum grade C-;

• Nursing
• 3 Credit(s)
• (3) Contact Hour(s)

Philosophy is the art and science of reasoning and the critical exploration of ideas. As a result, philosophy is primarily concerned with various questions which are inspired by reflection about and inquiry into the fundamental nature of things, including individuals' reflection on and about their place in the universe, themselves, and their relations to the members of their community. In this course, students will explore and examine some of the questions, concerns, problems, and intellectual schools or traditions which constitute the nature of philosophy. A number of these matters are explored through many of the various branches of the discipline, such as logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, social and political philosophy, among others. This course carries SUNY General Education Humanities credit.

• Philosophy
• 3 Credit(s)
• (3) Contact Hour(s)

This course investigates the theoretical nature of morality and its application in particular moral dilemmas. The course is designed to assist students in approaching, questioning, and refining their moral commitments and values, their understanding of the reasoned application of ethical principles, and, ultimately, their ethical practice in both their personal and professional lives. Among the theoretical questions posed and discussed are: Is morality simply relative to specific cultures? What are criteria for right and wrong? What is moral agency? Different ethical theories about the nature of a worthwhile life and concepts of morally sound behavior are examined. This course carries SUNY General Education credit in Humanities and Diversity: Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice.

• Philosophy
• 3 Credit(s)
• (3) Contact Hour(s)

The purpose of this course is to examine from a critical, philosophical perspective the various beliefs and practices of religion; problems associated with classical theism; the uniqueness of religious language; arguments for and against immortality; the challenge modern science poses to religion; and the notions of salvation, liberation, etc. As such, this course is to investigate religion in a way that is historically informed, theologically sophisticated, and philosophically challenging.

• Philosophy
• 3 Credit(s)
• (3) Contact Hour(s)

• Philosophy
• 3 Credit(s)
• (3) Contact Hour(s)

This course will study how concepts of sex and gender inform our understanding of self-identity and sexual difference. The course will explore how conventional categories of gender (e.g., heteronormativity and androcentrism) shape/situate women and sexual minorities as 'other'. The course examines a number of theories about the conceptual regulations of gender identity, especially those drawn from foundationalism and essentialism and feminist challenges to these theories. The course also explores the intelligibility of possibilities for gender identity other than those that are conventionally reinforced. This course carries SUNY General Education Humanities and SUNY Diversity: Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice credit. Prerequisite: Take ENG-101 with a Minimum Grade of C-.,Take PHL-100 or PHL-103 with a Minimum Grade of C-.

• Philosophy
• 3 Credit(s)
• (3) Contact Hour(s)

• Philosophy
• 3 Credit(s)
• (3) Contact Hour(s)