Nursing, as the largest profession and one of the fastest growing fields in health care, offers exciting, rewarding, and challenging career options. This program of study prepares nurses to function as generalists in practice when assuming the many excellent and ever-expanding employment opportunities available nationwide. The Career Services Center at Le Moyne College provides individual counseling to assist students in determining career options and job opportunities in the local area and beyond.
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Information Sessions
The Department of Nursing invites you to learn more about the undergraduate nursing degree programs at information sessions provided regularly on campus and at local hospitals, health care agencies, and events in the community throughout the year.
If you come to campus for a visit to the Department of Nursing or the Office of Graduate Admissions, parking is available in Lot A located behind Grewen and Reilly Halls. Handicap parking is available on the circle in front of Grewen Hall. Our campus map on the website provides directions and detailed parking locations.
If you are unable to attend a group or individual session in person but would like additional information, please contact the Department of Nursing at (315) 445-5435.
The Office of Admission offers a number of information sessions throughout the year for students interested in the Dual Degree Partnership in Nursing (DDPN). Please check the schedule for interviews, tours, and special visits.
Core Competencies
The organizing framework for the upper division baccalaureate completion program in nursing provides the underlying fabric with the threads of the core competencies woven throughout all coursework, which are fundamental to the practice of professional nursing. These core competencies include critical thinking, communication, assessment, caring, and professional role development as defined in the following table and are operationalized as illustrated in BS Program Outcomes.
Core Competencies Inherent in BS Program Outcomes
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Definition of Core Competencies
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BS Program Outcomes
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Critical Thinking: is an intellectual process of decision making that involves using data from multiple sources to question assumptions, reason inductively and deductively, problem solve intuitively and creatively, analyze and synthesize information from research, and evaluate outcomes when dealing with complex and dynamic situations.
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The BS graduate integrates information from nursing and the liberal arts and sciences to make decisions in the delivery of quality care.
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Communication: is a complex process of sharing information , ideas, and perceptions through the use of listening, verbal and non-verbal interactions, written skills, and multi-media technology to convey intended messages in a manner that is logical, clear, accurate, therapeutic, and relevant to individuals and groups.
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The BS graduate incorporates principles of effective communication using a variety of techniques to interact with and convey information to clients, peers, other health care providers, and communities of interest.
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Assessment: is a multidimensional process to gather information about physical, psychosocial, cognitive, spiritual, and environmental needs of individuals, families, and communities for the purpose of diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating client care outcomes based on the findings.
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The BS graduate applies assessment skills to determine the health status and needs of the client to provide the basis for planning and implementing interventions and evaluating outcomes of care.
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Caring: is an expression of respect for the dignity and self-worth of others, honoring the client’s ethical right to self-determination, confidentiality, and truth telling, and to safety and fairness in treatment regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, or cultural differences.
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The BS graduate integrates ethical principles in the delivery of health services to clients .
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Professional Role Development: is an integrative process whereby the individual assumes characteristics, values, and behaviors associated with a commitment to professional nursing practice which includes assessing, designing, managing, coordinating, and evaluating health care.
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The BS graduate , in the multidimensional role of the generalist, demonstrates competencies associated with professional nursing practice.
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Program Objectives
After completion of a course of study in the Jesuit tradition, which calls for the development and fostering of internalized Judaic-Christian values, beliefs, and commitment, the graduate’s personal and professional growth and development will be enhanced. It is an expectation that upon successful completion of the baccalaureate degree in nursing at Le Moyne College, the graduate will:
1. Practice in the multidimensional role of a generalist in provision of health care to individuals, families, groups, and communities.
2. Synthesize knowledge from the liberal arts and sciences and nursing for application to professional nursing practice.
3. Communicate effectively with clients, colleagues, and other health professionals through proficient use of listening, verbal, non-verbal, and written skills as well as proficient use of information technology.
4. Integrate principles of compassion, ethical decision-making, cultural diversity, and caring in the delivery of health services to clients.
5. Incorporate research-based findings into practice when delivering care to clients.
6. Apply critical thinking skills when assessing, designing, managing, implementing, and evaluating outcomes of nursing interventions.
7. Demonstrate evidence of professional development and growth by seeking opportunities to promote the advancement of the profession.
8. Apply principles of teaching and learning in health promotion and protection, risk reduction, disease management, and rehabilitation activities.
Technical Standards for B.S. Degree in Nursing
The Nursing Department’s curriculum is designed to provide the general education necessary for the practice of nursing at the baccalaureate level of preparation. Students build on the fundamental principles of nursing, acquire skills of critical judgment based on education and experience, and develop an ability to use principles and skills wisely in decision making and problem solving pertaining to the delivery of high quality nursing services. Students in the program of nursing are expected to fulfill the following technical standards:
• Acquire information from demonstrations and experiences in the basic and applied sciences, including but not limited to information conveyed through lecture, group seminar, small group activities and physical demonstrations.
• Acquire information from written documents and computer information systems (including literature searches and data retrieval), and identify information presented in images from paper, videos, transparencies and slides.
• Use and interpret information from diagnostic maneuvers (e.g. sphygmomanometer, otoscope, ophthalmoscope, etc.), and other diagnostic representations of physiological phenomena during the course of conducting a comprehensive physical assessment of a client.
• Accurately elicit information, including a medical history and other information, required to adequately and effectively assess and evaluate a client’s condition.
• Synthesize information to develop a plan of care.
• Problem solve and think critically to judge which theory and/or strategy of assessment and intervention is most appropriate.
• Use intellectual ability, exercise proper judgment, and timely and accurately complete responsibilities attendant to the delivery of care to clients.
• Maintain effective, mature, and sensitive relationships with clients, students, faculty, staff and other professionals under all circumstances.
• Perform specific procedures and interventions (e.g. basic life support techniques) sufficient to provide safe and effective nursing care according to prescribed therapeutic regimens.
• Communicate effectively and efficiently with faculty, patients, families and all members of the health care team about a patient’s condition as called for under the circumstances.
• Practice in a safe manner and respond appropriately to emergencies and urgencies.
• Possess emotional stability to function effectively under stress and adapt to changing environments inherent in the clinical practice of nursing.
• Practice universal precautions against contamination and cross contamination with infectious pathogens (e.g. wearing personal protective equipment, working with sharp objects and hazardous chemicals, treating clients with infectious diseases).
• Demonstrate manual dexterity and motor skills in performing nursing procedures such as giving a bed bath, making an occupied or unoccupied bed, and positioning and transferring clients safely.
• Upon admission, a candidate who discloses a disability and requests accommodation will be asked to provide documentation of his or her disability for the purpose of determining appropriate accommodations, including modification to the program. The College will provide reasonable accommodations, but is not required to make modifications that would substantially alter the nature or requirements of the program or provide auxiliary aids that present an undue burden to the College. To matriculate or continue in the curriculum, the candidate must be able to perform all the essential functions outlined in these technical standards either with or without accommodation.