UNDERGRADUATE CATALOG - Mercy College

Schools of Health & Natural Sciences / 127
Major Concentration
NURSING
Miriam Ford, MSN, APRN, BC, Program Director
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
General Liberal Arts and Sciences
General Education Requirements....................................60 credits
Lower Department Sciences .............................................30 credits
Major Concentration
Upper Department Nursing .............................................33 credits
Total................................................................................... 123 credits
Students Who Choose the Major Concentration in Nursing Must Complete:
FOUNDATION COURSES
The College does not offer lower department nursing courses. Degree candidates must be able
to validate at least 19 credits in lower department behavioral and natural sciences courses,
which must include:
CISC 120 Introduction to Computers and Application Software*
Any General Education, Biology, Natural Science course
PSYN 101 Introduction to Psychology *
SOCL 101 Introduction to Sociology*
Anatomy and Physiology (Transfer credit or RCE)*
Microbiology (Transfer credit, N.L.N., or CLEP)*
UPPER Department NURSING
NURS 361 Contemporary Concepts in Professional Nursing
NURS 362 Transcultural Nursing
NURS 363 Research for Evidence Based Professional Nursing
NURS 364 Nursing Informatics
NURS 365 Introduction to Health Policy
NURS 366 Leadership and Management
NURS 367 Pathophysiology and Clinical Reasoning for Nursing
NURS 368 Health Assessment and Health Promotion
NURS 369 Community Health Nursing: A Global Perspective
NURS 370 Capstone Project in Nursing and Healthcare
NURS 371 Statistics for Nurses
School of HEALTH &
Natural sciences
* These courses fulfill up to 15 credits of the General Education requirements.