NURSE-GN 2135 Midwife Management Practicum IV: This is the final clinical course of the midwifery program. Students have the challenge and opportunity to integrate knowledge and clinical skills learned separately during the previous basic courses. They do this in a practice setting that encompasses the full scope of midwifery practice. This course also provides the opportunity to assure the acquisition of all core competencies, with emphasis on cultural competence, evidence based practice, and reduction in health disparities in order to achieve beginner midwifery competence by graduation. In addition, professional role development behaviors deriving from leadership and entrepreneurial and change agent knowledge and skills are reinforced or made tangible in planning on practice as a new graduate.

NURSE-GN 3360 NYU-X Lab Practicum: Health Technology Education and Innovation: This research laboratory practicum bridges traditional university silos through transdisciplinary collaboration and experiences on a variety of innovative projects in the NYU-X Lab. The NYU-X Lab allows open access to unique education and research opportunities. The student will join a transdisciplinary team and will work on innovative projects in the areas of health, technology, education, engineering, robotics, product design, policy, and entrepreneurship. Laboratory experiences will be guided by ongoing/available NYU-X projects and the unique learning needs, skills and interests of each student, such as programming, coding or assembly involved in projects (electronic fabrication, system integration, etc.)

NURSE-GN 3359 STEM Nursing Innovation: This transdisciplinary graduate seminar will focus on human-centered informatics that emphasizes design innovation through team project-based learning and applied research and development activities in health, technology, and education. This course is suitable for advanced graduate students with diverse backgrounds from multiple disciplines. It will leverage research methods and skills at the nexus of Nursing and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), as well as in Education, Design, Entrepreneurship (Lean Launch Pad), to advance evidence based problem solving and decision making in clinical and everyday health care environments (e.g., mhealth, assistive robotics, and smart homes). Research methods will span ethnographic need finding, ideation, rapid iterative design strategy, value centered design, context and affect aware human computer interaction, and design and evaluation of empirical studies, tailored to the specific needs of teams’ project based activities.

NURSE-UN 1306 Professional Nursing/Social Change: Principles/Practices of Social Entrepreneurship: The focus of this honors course is to provide highly qualified students with an experiential learning experience to gain the knowledge, leadership skills and attitudes to promote nurses’ contributions to society. The course will use a seminar format to discuss foundational works from the social sciences and nursing to examine the structural and contextual factors that influence social justice, health disparities, and civic engagement in the United States. Students will gain knowledge and skills to develop a business plan and the leadership abilities to improve their effectiveness as agents of social change. Honors scholars will enhance a community partner’s activities by developing a service learning project incorporating the best available evidence. Admission to the honors course is based on a competitive application