Course Descriptions

This course is designed for nursing students and health care providers interested in the area of Gerontology. Topics can be applied in primary, secondary, or tertiary settings. Topics will include the cognitive disorders, drug interactions, group work, and rehabilitation techniques in the elderly. An overview of gerontology is offered.

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

This course introduces foundational concepts of professional nursing to provide safe, patient-centered care. The student will focus on professional nursing role development in clinical judgment, communication, and interventions to provide safe patient-centered care to meet the basic needs across the lifespan., Co-requisite: Co-requisite: BIO-171, ENG-101, PSY-100 minimum grade C, MAT

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

This course will introduce the student to foundational professional nursing standards and scope of practice within the legal and ethical framework of the nursing profession., Co-requisite: Co-requisite: BIO-171, ENG-101, PSY-100 minimum grade C,

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

This course introduces the student to the nurse's professional role and responsibilities for safe medication administration while applying the basic principles of pharmacology and pharmacokinetics as they impact nursing care., Co-requisite: Co-requisite: BIO-171, ENG-101, PSY-100 minimum grade C,

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

This course expands the concepts of health care to individuals and families experiencing common physical/mental health problems. The student will focus on the professional nursing role in developing clinical judgment, interprofessional communication and teamwork, and prioritizing interventions to provide safe patient-centered care to patients with acute and chronic health problems across the lifespan.Prerequisite: Prerequisite: NUR-111, NUR-112, NUR-113 minimum grade C+., Co-requisite: Co-requisite: BIO-172 & PSY-200 minimum ,grade C; NUR-122 & NUR-123 minimum grade C+.

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

The course will examine the nurse's role as advocate, collaborator, and educator in the delivery of safe, quality, patientcentered care. Emphasis is on clinical judgment through the analysis and integration of current evidence into nursing practice.Prerequisite: Pre-requisite: NUR-111, NUR-112, NUR-113 minimum grade C+., Co-requisite: Co-requisite: BIO-172 & PSY-200 minimum grade,C; NUR-121 & NUR 123 minimum grade C+.

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

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: 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;

• 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)