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Nursing Program Profile
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Undergraduate Nursing Student Handbook
Nursing Program Profile
The undergraduate program of study in nursing will prepare you for an exciting career as a professional nurse. The curriculum is fully integrated with the arts and sciences and will provide you with all of the tools you will need to practice in the fast-paced and ever-changing health care system. You will experience health care at the cutting edge as you learn nursing skills in our laboratory and develop hands-on practice in hospitals, nursing homes, mental health and visiting nurse facilities in the Westchester County and New York metropolitan areas. At Concordia, students of nursing have the opportunity to complete their program of study in three-and-a-half years. Classes are small, the faculty, nationally-known, and nursing education is delivered with all the personal touches for which Concordia College is known. The Nursing program is part of the Division of Health and Human Services.
Professional nurses find themselves working wherever there are people. The specializations available to nurses are limitless—from traditional bedside nursing in an acute care hospital to occupational health nursing at Bloomingdale’s. Nurses take care of patients, teach in colleges and universities, and run health care facilities. At Concordia, nursing students get to experience it all—from community hospitals like Lawrence Hospital Center in Bronxville to care facilities like Westchester Medical Center; Visiting Nurse Services of Westchester to mental health services at St. Vincent’s Hospital.
Our Nursing Students Value the Whole Person
Nursing education at Concordia College utilizes knowledge from liberal arts and sciences to provide nurses with a well-rounded educational foundation. We respect high-touch as much as we value high-tech and we are intentional about making sure our graduates value the whole person—their culture, their spirituality, their humanity. Graduates from our program are encouraged to embrace life-long learning and continue their nursing education long after they leave our campus. The nursing curriculum at Concordia College-New York can be completed in three-and-a-half years.
At Concordia, you will begin your educational career with our core curriculum, The Concordia Distinctive—a program that balances technology and communication, relationships and religion, the classics and politics—all integrated to build a strong foundation for further study and growth. Students enjoy the program and professors are energized in teaching this cross- disciplinary curriculum.
Education Outside the Classroom
While completing The Concordia Distinctive, you will work with a faculty advisor to begin developing your Individualized Graduation Plan (IGP). This is a component of The Concordia Experience. This enables you to focus on your Concordia program and select support courses and electives unique to your own educational goals. Each is structured in combination with high-value experiential learning, which encompasses education outside the traditional classroom, including “city as text”, study abroad, service learning, professional internships, and research opportunities.
Nursing Program Courses
- Elements of Inorganic, Organic, and Biochemistry
- World Culture Core Elective
- The Human Challenge
- Introduction to Probability and Statistics
- Heredity and Society
- Human Behavior Core Elective
- Information Literacy
- Human Anatomy and Physiology
- Developmental Psychology
- Prevention, Health Promotion, Risk Reduction
- Contemporary Issues in Nursing
- General Microbiology
- Critical Thinking in the Clinical Management of Patients
- Health Assessment
- Care of the Adult Patient I & II
- Care of the Older Adult
- Contemporary Issues of Nursing
- Spiritual and Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Nursing Care
- Nursing Care of the Adult
- Pathophysiology/Pharmacology I & II
- Nursing Care of the Older Adult
- Nursing Care of Women and Children
- World Religions
- Narrative of Sacred Scripture
- Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
- Cultural and Spiritual Competence in Nursing
- Nursing Care of Women and the Childbearing Family
- Nursing Care of Children
- Research, Theory, and Evidence Basis for Nursing
- Behavioral Health Nursing
- Nursing Care of Aggregate Populations
- Nursing Leadership
- Transition to the Professional Nursing Role
Nursing Faculty
Susan Apold, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, FAAN
Dean and Professor
Division of Nursing
Office: BSH 207
Phone: (914) 337-9300, x2256
E-mail: susan.apold@concordia-ny.edu
Kathleen Flaherty, EdD, RN, CRRN, CNE
Professor of Nursing
Chair, Undergraduate Nursing Program
Office:
Phone: (914) 337-9300, x
E-mail: kathleen.flaherty@concordia-ny.edu
Patricia Hunt-Slamow, PhD, CNS, BC, BCETS
Associate Professor
Division of Nursing
Office: BSH 100
Phone: (914) 337-9300, x2281
E-mail: patricia.slamow@concordia-ny.edu
Donna Rolin-Kenny, MS, RN
Instructor of Nursing
Office:
Phone: (914) 337-9300, x
E-mail: donna.kenny@concordia-ny.edu
David Rotchford, MS, RN-BC
Nursing Resource Coordinator
Office: BSH 203
Phone: (914) 337-9300, x2282
E-mail: david.rotchford@concordia-ny.edu
Lynn Soderquist, MS, RN
Instructor of Nursing
Office: BSH
Phone: (914) 337-9300, x
E-mail: Lynnsoderquist@verizon.net
Ruth Leich
Assistant to the Dean
Division of Nursing
Office: BSH 205
Phone: (914) 337-9300, x2280
E-mail: ruth.leich@concordia-ny.edu