Course Descriptions

This course presents the scientific basis for sports nutrition emphasizing the energy needs of activity and effect of dietary intake on performance. Special dietary requirements of specific sports and athletic activities will be taught. Topics will also include dietary ergogenic aids, nutritional supplements, weight control, dietary fads and myths, interaction of alcohol, caffeine and tobacco on an athlete's nutrition status. The class will also stress information for competitive athletes and people of all ages wishing to incorporate nutrition into a physically active lifestyle. Prerequisite: NS 115 This course carries SUNY General Education Natural Sciences (and Scientific Reasoning) credit. Prerequisite: Take NS-115 with a Minimum Grade of C-.

• Nutritional Science
• 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: BIO-171, ENG-101, PSY-100 minimum grade C, MAT-115 minimum grade S, NUR-112, NUR-113 Minimum grade C+;

• 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: BIO-171, ENG-101, PSY-100 minimum grade C, MAT-115 minimum grade S, NUR-111, NUR-113 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: BIO-171, ENG-101, PSY-100 minimum grade C, MAT-115 minimum grade S, NUR-111, NUR-112 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: 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: 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: BIO-172 & PSY-200 minimum grade C; NUR-121 & NUR-122 minimum grade C+.

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

This course is intended to be an extension of a traditional Catalog course. It provides a student the opportunity to pursue advanced study or specialized research in a subject area, exploring it in greater depth and in a more independent manner than is possible in the regular course format. This contract-based experience requires the student to conduct a specialized project under the guidance of a faculty sponsor, with the major responsibility for learning resting with the student. This option is not a substitute for a regularly offered course. Prerequisites: Sponsorship from a faculty member and be an FLCC student who has successfully completed 12 or more credit hours with a minimum Cumulative GPA of 2.0.

• Nursing
• 3 Credit(s)
• (3) 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 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)

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)

This course is intended to be an extension of a traditional Catalog course. It provides a student the opportunity to pursue advanced study or specialized research in a subject area, exploring it in greater depth and in a more independent manner than is possible in the regular course format. This contract-based experience requires the student to conduct a specialized project under the guidance of a faculty sponsor, with the major responsibility for learning resting with the student. This option is not a substitute for a regularly offered course. Prerequisites: Sponsorship from a faculty member and be an FLCC student who has successfully completed 12 or more credit hours with a minimum Cumulative GPA of 2.0.

• 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)