LEAD Honors

Selected principles and applications of chemistry, with emphasis on the fundamental nature of chemistry. Basic course dealing with concepts of atomic and molecular structure, chemical bonding, solution chemistry, equilibrium, reaction rates, and properties of gases, liquids, and solids.

This foundational writing course is required for CAS, Nursing, Social Work, Steinhardt and Tandon incoming undergraduates. "Writing the Essay'' provides instruction and practice in critical reading, creative and logical thinking, and clear, persuasive writing. Students learn to analyze and interpret written texts, to use texts as evidence, to develop ideas, and to write exploratory and argumentative essays. Exploration, inquiry, reflection, analysis, revision, and collaborative learning are emphasized.

Offered every semester. 4 points. Survey of the field of sociology: its basic concepts, theories, and research orientation. Threshold course that provides the student with insights into the social factors in human life. Topics include social interaction, socialization, culture, social structure, stratification, political power, deviance, social institutions, and social change.

The First-Year Nursing Honors Cohort Seminar is designed for traditional, first-year students participating in the LEAD Honors Program at NYU Meyers to build community and engagement within NYU Meyers and to provide an introduction to the honors education experience. The seminar will serve as an in-depth introduction to New York University, NYU Meyers, and New York City. The seminar will provide detailed information pertaining to resources, academic support programs, student organizations, and activities within NYU Meyers, NYU, and New York City. The seminar will also introduce students to their LEAD Academic Advisor and LEAD Honors Advisor and review the four-year curriculum and requirements for successful completion of the LEAD Honors Program and graduation with Honors in Nursing. Finally, the seminar will connect first-year students to sophomore Nursing Cohort Leaders (NCLs) who will collaborate with the LEAD Academic Advisor and LEAD Honors Advisor to conduct bi-weekly cohort sessions. In addition, the Nursing Cohort Leaders will plan and execute community-building outings with the honors cohort.

45 hours lecture plus lab. 3 credits. The course focuses on the structure and function of the human body and how it affects health and wellbeing. The structure and function of each body system is studied and their inter-relationships explained.

Students in the Steinhardt School of Education and the School of Nursing are required to take this course. The course builds on Writing the Essay (EXPOS-UA 1) and provides advanced instruction in analyzing and interpreting written texts from a variety of academic disciplines, using written texts as evidence, developing ideas, and writing persuasive essays. It stresses analysis, inductive reasoning, reflection, revision, and collaborative learning. The course is tailored for students in the Schools of Education and Nursing so that readings and essay writing focus on issues that are pertinent to those disciplines.

Cimpian, Knowles, Reed, Rhodes, Van Bavel. Offered every semester. 4 points. Fundamental principles of psychology, with emphasis on basic research and applications in psychology's major theoretical areas of study: thought, memory, learning, perception, personality, social processes, development, and the physiological bases of psychology. Included in the class is direct observation of methods of investigation through laboratory demonstrations and by student participation in current research projects.

Nursing and the Health Professions is designed to introduce traditional, first-year students participating in the LEAD Honors Program at NYU Meyers to professional roles within the healthcare community. The seminar encourages discussion of interprofessional roles and how different nursing roles contribute to patient care. The seminar introduces students to policy and appropriate ways to advocate for healthcare needs of the public. This seminar introduces the evaluation the role of continuing professional education in improving the quality of nursing practice.

45 hours lecture. 3 credits. This course is an introduction for undergraduate students into the field of statistics as it is used in nursing, epidemiology, public health, and clinical research. It will concentrate on understanding what the statistics are used for and what they tell us rather than mathematical theory. Knowledge of high school algebra is assumed.

Discussion of human growth across the lifespan; multiple contexts in which development unfolds are explored & implications for practice are considered.

45 hours lecture. 3 credits. This course introduces the principles of the infectious disease process with respect to the properties of infectious agents, modes of transmission, manifestations of infections, their prevention and treatment, and the properties of the immune system. Major infectious diseases in humans, including the methods used for their identification in the clinical lab, are covered. Modes of transmission are described, as well as treatments and prevention. The application of principles of microbiology to the work of health professionals is also discussed.

Introduction to nutrition science and its role in health and society: nutrient characteristics, requirements, and food sources, energy balance, weight control, dietary guides and food planning, and social and economic factors that affect food production and consumption. Liberal Arts CORE equivalent – satisfies the requirement for Natural Sciences for non-majors on an individual department basis-students should confirm with their Academic Advisor

This nursing honors seminar is designed to introduce scholars in the LEAD Honors Program at NYU Meyers to the four nursing pillars of the LEAD Honors Program model: nursing practice, research, education, and service. The seminar encourages discussion of the role of the nurse in each of the four pillars, including serving as leaders in nursing and interprofessional teams. The ANA (2015) Standards and Scope of Practice will be evaluated as it impacts student and professional practice. The teaching methodologies impacting the learning pillar will be evaluated. The seminar provides a forum for the LEAD Scholar to explore the four domains in relation to personal preference and goals and promotes individual leadership development as a precursor to the selection of the LEAD Honors Capstone pillar and topic in the junior and senior years.

This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to nursing in the context of global health and global health competencies. Students will examine the major causes of morbidity and mortality and their variations between high-, middle-, and low-income regions, as well as major public health efforts to reduce healthcare disparities globally. The effects of globalization on health, health systems, and the delivery of healthcare will be discussed. Students will also focus on social, economic, and environmental determinants of health. The topics of health equity, social justice, and sociocultural and political awareness, and their impact on global health, will also be explored.

60 hours lecture plus lab. 4 credits. This course focuses on the development of comprehensive health assessment skills, including measures of physical and functional status, documentation of the assessment findings, and health promotion strategies for each body system. Considerations of racial and cultural differences are discussed with respect to health assessment as well as health promotion strategies.

45 hours lecture plus clinical and lab. 6 credits. This course focuses on the development of the concepts and skills used by the professional nurse. Using nursing theory, students apply the nursing process and nursing skills in the on-campus laboratory practice and in the care of adult clients and their significant others in clinical settings such as acute care facilities and skilled nursing facilities.

45 hours: 3 credits. This course explores historical assumptions about nursing as a basis for understanding professional roles and the image of nursing in today?s society. Nursing is identified as a learned, valued profession; emphasis is on the influence of history in its evolution. Contemporary nursing workforce, educational trends, and practice issues are explored as primary factors in professional status. Ethical and legal aspects of nursing practice are discussed. Political and economic factors shaping nursing practice in the health care delivery system are defined, evaluated, and compared to other health systems.

45 hours: 3 credits. Emphasis is placed on the relationship of usual health patterns of major body systems to changes that occur during the illness experience. Major pathophysiologic concepts are explored using a body systems approach. Theories relating etiology, pathogenesis, and clinical manifestations are used to study common disease processes. Concepts from anatomy, physiology, and chemistry courses provide the foundation for exploring human dysfunction. Concepts learned in this course are basic to nursing practice.

This seminar is designed to provide LEAD Honors students with a setting to integrate nursing knowledge, skills, and theories being learned in the first sequence coursework of the undergraduate nursing program. Building on previous LEAD Honors Program coursework, this course will also lead to the development of the Scholar’s Capstone Project topic within a corresponding LEAD Honors Program pillar (Practice, Education, Research, or Service).

This course focuses on the application of evidenced-based standards ofpsychiatric mental health nursing in promoting mental health andcaring for persons with mental healthconditions and/or substance usedisorders. The role of nurse as a member of the interprofessionalhealthcare team across different settings and across the continuum ofcare are highlighted. There is an emphasis on critical thinking,therapeutic communication and interpersonal skills as they relate tomental health nursing. Legal issues, patient education, pharmacologyand population health principles are integrated in the context of mental health through the course.

45 hours lecture plus clinical and lab. 6 credits. The focus of this course is on professional nursing care for individuals and their significant others experiencing acute and/or chronic illness. The nursing process is applied in caring for adults and their significant others across health care settings such as the hospital, skilled nursing facilities, and home care.

45 hours: 3 credits. This course provides students with the knowledge of pharmacologic preparations used in the maintenance of health and prevention of illness. The content focuses on the drug actions, therapeutic response, patient-teaching responsibilities, and nursing implications in identifying areas of side effects, adverse effects, drug interactions, and safe administration of medications for patients of diverse racial and cultural backgrounds. Evidence-based research and legal/ethical issues are also addressed in the context of the nurse?s role in pharmacotherapy.

This course introduces the basic principles of critical appraisal of research for use in professional healthcare practices. Students will apply critical appraisal skills using appropriate theoretical and conceptual grounding, addressing the critical elements of research design, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination. Emphasis is placed on acquisition of competencies necessary for knowledgeable research consumerism including information literacy skills, critical evaluation of published research, and application of research findings. Students will apply course content and critical appraisal skills to the development of the LEAD Honors Program Capstone Project topic.

22.5 hours lecture plus clinical and Recitation. 3 credits. This course focuses on providing a nursing process framework for examining families in the childbearing years. Individual, societal, cultural, and environmental variables and health care disparities relating to childbearing and parenting are identified. Delivery of nursing care to pregnant, laboring, and postpartum mothers and their newborns is the clinical focus, with a goal of maximizing the health potential of young families.

45 hours lecture plus clinical and Lab. 6 credits. This course focuses on the interactions among aging, disease, functional ability, the environment, and health disparities of adults and elders. Emphasis is placed on the application of the nursing process to health promotion/maintenance and disease management relating to orthopedics, neurology, cognition and decision making, genitourinary, rehabilitation, immune dysfunction, and elimination in the adult and older adult populations.

45 hours Lecture Plus Clinical and Lab: 3 credits. This course provides a family theory and nursing process framework for examining families in the child-rearing years from infancy through adolescence. Individual, societal, cultural, and environmental variables and health care disparities relating to child-rearing and parenting are identified. Delivery of nursing care adapted to the unique health and developmental needs of children and their families is the clinical focus, with a goal of maximizing the health potential of young families. There is a strong health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention component.

45 hours: 3 credits. This course will explore current issues in the evolution of patient care in contemporary health care systems. Embedded in the human experience of illness and health are rich sub-concepts with ethical and moral implications such as comfort and suffering, genetics/genomics, bioethics, addiction, culture and healthcare disparities, LGBT healthcare needs, interprofessional collaboration, global health issues, and policy. Ethics is an essential component of nursing practice and is inextricably linked to quality care. Students will be challenged to think critically and ethically about what society considers fair and just care as they explore factors that influence the wellness-illness continuum of human experiences. Discussions will focus on a variety of sources and formats to include: case studies, selected evidence-based articles, care protocols, contemporary editorials, film and student opinions. Students will use evidence-based sources, to discuss scientific and technological advances that are creating unprecedented opportunities, choices, and consequences that are inevitable when illness and health care intersect.

This course provides opportunities for continued exploration of LEAD Honors Program pillars tenets: researchable clinical problems; innovative practice for holistic client needs and accompanying nursing roles; innovative educational programming; and, innovative service for nursing professionals or client populations. Students identify research questions, clinical problems, educational needs, and service activities to address the particular pillar for their capstone project. They develop an implementation plan for their capstone project and complete reflective practice exercises.

45 hours lecture plus clinical. 6 credits. This course focuses on understanding and applying the theoretical principles of and evidence base for public health nursing to culturally competent, community health nursing practice and professional role development. The focus of community health nursing practice is on protecting and enhancing the health of communities and humanly diverse populations, including those at risk and those challenged by health disparities, developmental needs, and mental health concerns and for clients living with poverty. Emphasis is placed on health promotion, health care policy, and ethics.

45 hours lecture plus clinical and Lab: 6 credits. The goal of this course is to facilitate the paradigm shift from student to professional nurse. The focus is on the understanding, synthesis, and application of the evidence- base for using leadership and management principles in prioritizing and delivering nursing care to groups of patients as a team member within the health care organization. The course prepares the student nurse for entry into professional nursing practice after graduation. It addresses health policy, economic issues, and the integration of ethical and legal aspects of care.

This course provides opportunities for continued exploration of LEAD Honors Program pillars tenets: researchable clinical problems; innovative practice for holistic client needs and accompanying nursing roles; innovative educational programming; and, innovative service for nursing professionals or client populations. Students implement projects that address the research questions, clinical problems, educational needs, and service activities previously identified for their capstone project. They prepare scholarly presentations of their findings from the implementation of their capstone project, completing reflective practice exercises and peer review activities to advance their professional development.