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  • NUR 401: Capstone Experience Nursing

    4.00 Credits
    Lackawanna College

    This final course in the RN-to-BSN program represents an experiential learning experience which invites the student to demonstrate integration of clinical knowledge with concepts/theories into professional nursing practice. Course participants design and implement a project reflecting program competencies designed to address a real-world problem in their current places of practice or to improve client/community outcomes in collaboration with a faculty member. (4 credits)
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  • NUR 415: Public Health Nursing

    3.00 Credits
    Lackawanna College

    This course explores the promotion of health and prevention of illness across the lifespan. Informed by theories from public health, nursing, and the social sciences, the student uses his/her foundational nursing knowledge and expanding genomic knowledge to critically analyze the health and health risks of selected populations in a community and apply health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention interventions. (3 credits)
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  • NUR 420: Health Policy & Politics

    3.00 Credits
    Lackawanna College

    This course examines the trends in healthcare, socio-political forces and societal issues which shape policies which affect both consumers of health care and professional nursing practice. The student is introduced to the policy making process and explores how nursing can be a force in health care policy decisions. (3 credits)
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  • NUR 425: Leadership and Management in Nsg

    3.00 Credits
    Lackawanna College

    This course introduces the students to concepts of professional nursing leadership as it relates to administrative practice in a variety of organizational structures. Emphasis is placed on the acquisition of leadership and management skills and the comprehension of how managerial decisions impact patient care as well as those responsible for delivering that care. Effective communication, concepts of working with diverse stakeholders, interprofessional communication and collaboration as well as ethical/legal responsibilities of leadership and management will be considered. (3 credits)
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  • OTA 105: Intro to Occupational Therapy

    3.00 Credits
    Lackawanna College

    In this course occupational therapy assistant students will be introduced to the meaning and scope of occupational therapy practice. A history overview of the occupational therapy profession, occupational therapy education, populations of people served by occupational therapy in traditional and non-traditional settings will be explored. Students will be introduced to the concept of responsible professionalism as occupational therapy assistants. They will become familiar with the AOTAs Official Documents including but not limited to Occupational Therapy Standards of Practice, the Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics and The OT Practice Framework: Domain and Process (3rd ed.) Additionally, the roles of occupational therapy assistants, relationships between occupational therapy assistants and occupational therapists, and the value of establishing good communication with multidisciplinary teams, clients, clients significant others and the public will be presented. Students will become student members of the American Occupational Therapy Association and learn to take advantage of the resources of this organization especially for members. Finally, students will be introduced to health and information literacy and will be instructed in using reliable resources both in the library from print sources and on-line. (3 credits)
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  • OTA 110: Occupational Conditions & Challenge

    3.00 Credits
    Lackawanna College

    In this course, students will explore the most common occupational conditions and challenges facing todays occupational therapy clients. They will recognize and describe the impact these conditions and challenges have on clients occupational/functional performance using the terminology found in the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process, (3rd ed.) Students will also be introduced to methods used in treatment settings conducive to occupational therapy practice as they relate to clients experiencing the identified occupational conditions and challenges. (3 credits)
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  • OTA 120: Occupational Therapy Fndn & Theory

    3.00 Credits
    Lackawanna College

    In this course, students will discover the rich historical roots from which the dynamic, life-changing profession of occupational therapy grew. They will understand the importance of the professions philosophy and basic tenets. They will also learn about the influences multidisciplinary theories had on the professions development. Occupation-Based Models of Practice, the theoretical lenses through which occupational therapy practitioners view their clients, as occupational beings will be explored. Finally, practical frames of references, the theoretical approaches whose methods guide occupational therapy practitioners and other practitioners of various fields, in practice when considering the types of conditions and challenges their clients face will be presented and applied to various case studies. (3 credits) Pre-requisites: OTA105 and OTA110
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  • OTA 125: Occupations Across the Lifespan I

    3.00 Credits
    Lackawanna College

    Occupations Across the Lifespan I is the first in a series focusing on 2 primary elements; the human as an occupational being and on the analysis of the activities and occupations in which humans engage. In this course, the OT Practice Framework: Domain and Process will be presented, in particular, the concepts of Areas of Occupation, Performance Patterns, Contexts and Environments and Activity Demands, with regard to space, objects and social demands. Human developmental stages from fetal development through childhood and the occupations typical for these individuals will be presented. Finally students will be guided through the process of analyzing occupations, grading activities to achieve therapeutic benefit, selecting appropriate occupations and activities based on individuals virtual occupational profiles, conducting/presenting/teaching occupations/activities to others as well as adapting and modifying environments and occupations to ensure future clients opportunity for engagement and participation in life despite a variety of limitations. Experiential learning, problem-based learning and service-learning will be utilized as primary pedagogical methods in this course series, in order to best prepare students for the Evaluation/Intervention/Documentation courses as well as for Level I and Level II fieldwork experiences. (3 credits) Pre-requisites: OTA105, OTA110, BIO205 and BIO235.
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  • OTA 130: Eval, Interv & Commun I-Ped OT

    4.00 Credits
    Lackawanna College

    In this course, consisting of three hours of lecture and three hours of experiential laboratory instruction per week, students will develop entry-level occupational therapy assistant skills in evaluation, intervention and communication as they relate to providing occupational therapy services to children and adolescents whose physical, developmental or behavioral conditions interfere with their occupational performance. When focusing on the evaluation of these clients, students will gain competence in the role they play in collaborating with their occupational therapist supervisors in collecting initial assessment data. They will understand the goal setting and intervention planning process. Students will learn to conduct occupational therapy interventions with clients based on the plan established by the occupational therapist. Student occupational therapy assistants will learn to develop and execute preparatory, purposeful an occupation-based interventions. Their treatment methods and strategies will be supported by evidence in professional literature and by the expertise of those providing occupational therapy services to children and adolescents in a variety of treatment settings. Finally, students will develop oral, written and non-verbal communication skills necessary for interacting in the occupational therapist-occupational therapy assistant relationship, sharing information with colleagues from different disciplines, educating and training clients and their caregivers and documenting clients progress. (4 credits) Pre-requisites: OTA105, OTA110, BIO205 and BIO235.
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  • OTA 135: Level I Fieldwork 1

    1.00 Credits
    Lackawanna College

    During the first intersession, students will begin the integration of didactic material with clinical practice. To help students integrate classroom information with clinical practice, students will complete a Level I Fieldwork in pediatrics after successful completion of the pediatric Evaluation/Intervention/Communication course (OT 130). This fieldwork allows the student to further understand and observe how certain conditions and psychosocial factors learned about in the classroom impact the occupational performance of children and adolescents. In a community based pediatric setting where occupational therapy services are not currently provided, under the supervision of the course instructor, a licensed and registered occupational therapist, students will be challenged through the experience itself and assignments to identify the role of occupational therapy. They will engage in the following: 1)
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