Overview

From the Department Chair, Dr. Catherine Alicia Georges

The Department of Nursing at Lehman College is one of twelve academic departments within the Division of Natural and Social Sciences. The program admitted its first students in 1971. The Department of Nursing offers undergraduate and graduate nursing programs to a culturally diverse student body. Our undergraduate nursing program has both a generic program and a registered nurse completion program.

Our graduate program, which was launched in 1976, currently offers four tracks of specialization: parent child nursing, adult health nursing, nursing care of older adults and a pediatric nurse practitioner program. We also offer post masters certificates in the pediatric nurse practitioner program and in nursing education and nursing administration.

The Department of Nursing has developed a number of partnerships over the last few years with a variety of nursing organizations and health care agencies. We have developed an innovative foreign nurse program and offer a number of upgrade and training programs for various health care agencies in the greater New York area.

Our faculty is committed to excellence in teaching, scholarship and community service. Members of our Department serve as leaders in professional nursing organizations and as mentors to current students and alumni.

• Mission of the Nursing Department
• Philosophy of the Nursing Department