Tutoring for Academic Success, Sunflower Diagram

Rory Meyers College of Nursing

Tutoring – Faculty identified a need for tutoring sessions in two medical-surgical courses, Adult & Elder I and Adult & Elder II. Co-requisites such as pathophysiology and pharmacology is taught, respectively. These tutoring sessions are taught for the 12-week semester on a weekly basis and cover the lecture content that was covered in class that week.

Sunflower- Faculty in the first sequence medical- surgical course sought to introduce an innovative method to help students conceptualize critical thinking and empathy in the nursing process using a sunflower diagram.

Contact: Karla Rodriguez, Clinical Assistant Professor| kgr215@nyu.edu; Theresa Bucco, Clinical Assistant professor | tb107@nyu.edu