Nursing BS--Course Description
NUR 304: Perspectives on Professional nursing – Past and Present
Course Description
This course chronicles the evolution of professional nursing, beginning with a historical perspective leading to the 21st century. It explores the changing society and its effect on nursing leadership and the socialization of students into professional role. The course also examines concepts and theories that form a foundation for evidence-based practice and culturally competent care.
Pre-requisites: Current New York State RN license and Medgar Evers College admission requirements.
NUR 316: Health Assessment of the Adult Client
Course Description
This course provides students the skills for further refinement in the assessment of the health status of individual adults in the context of family for early case finding, referral and following-up skills. The nursing process is utilized in the collection and the recording of relevant data, especially health history and complete physical assessment to identify normal states and deviations from wellness in the adult client. Guided college laboratory experience provides opportunity for practice and refinement in the necessary hands-on skills and techniques.
Pre-requisite: or co-requisite: NUR 304
NUR 318 & NURL 318: Community Health Nursing for Diverse Populations
Course Description
This course integrates knowledge of professional nursing and concepts of family and community client systems in developing comprehensive community health nursing care skills. Emphasis is placed on health promotion, health maintenance, health teaching and disease prevention. Principles of epidemiology and the nursing process provide a framework for maximizing the health of the community. Clinical laboratory experiences in diverse community health settings enable students to reify relevant concepts and apply principles of teaching in family and community environment.
Pre-requisites: MTH 209, NUR 304; NUR 316
NUR 321: Introduction to Nursing Research
Course Description
This course is designed to promote the student’s understanding of the research process, using critical appraisal. Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to review and use research findings in nursing and other disciplines, which are applicable to clinical practice. Emphasis is placed on using research as the basis for clinical decision-making that demonstrates quality and cost-effective outcomes in nursing care. Ethical, moral and legal issues are considered in relation to nursing research.
Pre-requisites: MTH 209, NUR 304
NUR 322: Psychosocial Health in Groups
Course Description
Students are introduced to group dynamics concepts within the context of general systems theory. The concept of health and the relativity of mental health as a function of cultural and environmental factors are explored. A number of specific group dynamics concepts with implications for increased awareness of self and others in goal development, decision-making, and leadership functions are examined with a view to enhancing individual effectiveness and mental health in group settings.
Pre-requisites: NUR 304
NUR 421 & NURL 421: Nursing Leadership and Management
Course Description
This course explores contemporary leadership and management concepts, models and strategies and the functions of managers, leaders and professional colleagues in nursing. Management theories and their applicability to nursing are examined along with the technological developments that contribute to managerial role taking. Leadership concepts, principles and management skills, those external socioeconomic and ethno-political factors that influence health care delivery are further examined. To enhance pragmatic appreciation of the theoretical component of this course, students are provided an opportunity to understudy a nurse manager as a preceptor in an assigned clinical nursing setting.
Prerequisites: NUR 304, NUR 316
NUR 422: High-Risk Families across the Lifespan
Course Description
This course explores the roles and functions of the nurse in facilitating change and promoting family wellness in high-risk situations across the lifespan. The student learns how to assess growth and development patterns of the individual and family units, assist in reducing or eliminating risk situations and provide some adjustment as necessary. The course also provides an overview of caring within intergenerational family, including challenges, decision making, and transitions that occur in the life span.
Pre-requisites: NUR 304, NUR 316
NUR 425: Professional Nursing and Trends in Health Care Delivery
Course Description
This course describes health care services and how they are delivered according to different national and global systems, inter-organizational relationships, allocation of resources, and the effect of technological advances. Emphasis is on the impact of trends in various models of health care delivery, the roles and functions of professional nurses and their responsibilities for ethical, legal and cultural issues.
Pre-requisites: This capstone course is taken in the last semester of the nursing sequence.
School of Science, Health and Technology
Bachelor of Science – Nursing Department
Nursing Faculty Information
718-270-6289
M20 Carroll Street
Course Description
This course chronicles the evolution of professional nursing, beginning with a historical perspective leading to the 21st century. It explores the changing society and its effect on nursing leadership and the socialization of students into professional role. The course also examines concepts and theories that form a foundation for evidence-based practice and culturally competent care.
Pre-requisites: Current New York State RN license and Medgar Evers College admission requirements.
NUR 316: Health Assessment of the Adult Client
Course Description
This course provides students the skills for further refinement in the assessment of the health status of individual adults in the context of family for early case finding, referral and following-up skills. The nursing process is utilized in the collection and the recording of relevant data, especially health history and complete physical assessment to identify normal states and deviations from wellness in the adult client. Guided college laboratory experience provides opportunity for practice and refinement in the necessary hands-on skills and techniques.
Pre-requisite: or co-requisite: NUR 304
NUR 318 & NURL 318: Community Health Nursing for Diverse Populations
Course Description
This course integrates knowledge of professional nursing and concepts of family and community client systems in developing comprehensive community health nursing care skills. Emphasis is placed on health promotion, health maintenance, health teaching and disease prevention. Principles of epidemiology and the nursing process provide a framework for maximizing the health of the community. Clinical laboratory experiences in diverse community health settings enable students to reify relevant concepts and apply principles of teaching in family and community environment.
Pre-requisites: MTH 209, NUR 304; NUR 316
NUR 321: Introduction to Nursing Research
Course Description
This course is designed to promote the student’s understanding of the research process, using critical appraisal. Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to review and use research findings in nursing and other disciplines, which are applicable to clinical practice. Emphasis is placed on using research as the basis for clinical decision-making that demonstrates quality and cost-effective outcomes in nursing care. Ethical, moral and legal issues are considered in relation to nursing research.
Pre-requisites: MTH 209, NUR 304
NUR 322: Psychosocial Health in Groups
Course Description
Students are introduced to group dynamics concepts within the context of general systems theory. The concept of health and the relativity of mental health as a function of cultural and environmental factors are explored. A number of specific group dynamics concepts with implications for increased awareness of self and others in goal development, decision-making, and leadership functions are examined with a view to enhancing individual effectiveness and mental health in group settings.
Pre-requisites: NUR 304
NUR 421 & NURL 421: Nursing Leadership and Management
Course Description
This course explores contemporary leadership and management concepts, models and strategies and the functions of managers, leaders and professional colleagues in nursing. Management theories and their applicability to nursing are examined along with the technological developments that contribute to managerial role taking. Leadership concepts, principles and management skills, those external socioeconomic and ethno-political factors that influence health care delivery are further examined. To enhance pragmatic appreciation of the theoretical component of this course, students are provided an opportunity to understudy a nurse manager as a preceptor in an assigned clinical nursing setting.
Prerequisites: NUR 304, NUR 316
NUR 422: High-Risk Families across the Lifespan
Course Description
This course explores the roles and functions of the nurse in facilitating change and promoting family wellness in high-risk situations across the lifespan. The student learns how to assess growth and development patterns of the individual and family units, assist in reducing or eliminating risk situations and provide some adjustment as necessary. The course also provides an overview of caring within intergenerational family, including challenges, decision making, and transitions that occur in the life span.
Pre-requisites: NUR 304, NUR 316
NUR 425: Professional Nursing and Trends in Health Care Delivery
Course Description
This course describes health care services and how they are delivered according to different national and global systems, inter-organizational relationships, allocation of resources, and the effect of technological advances. Emphasis is on the impact of trends in various models of health care delivery, the roles and functions of professional nurses and their responsibilities for ethical, legal and cultural issues.
Pre-requisites: This capstone course is taken in the last semester of the nursing sequence.
School of Science, Health and Technology
Bachelor of Science – Nursing Department
Nursing Faculty Information
718-270-6289
M20 Carroll Street
