Lynda Konecny’s Portfolio
HIGHER EDUCATION:
Prof. Lynda M. Konecny received an Associate in Applied Science in Nursing from the College of Staten Island (CSI) of The City University of New York (CUNY), cum laude. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing, cum laude and Master’s of Science in Nursing, with a concentration in medical-surgical nursing and nursing education, at Hunter College, CUNY.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS/AWARDS/CERTIFICATIONS:
Her academic honors include: membership in Phi Theta Kappa, National Honor Fraternity of Junior Colleges, Sigma Theta Tau International, Nursing Honor Society, and current listings in Who’s Who in American and Professional Nursing.
Prof Konecny holds a certificate in coronary care nursing and ECG analysis. Her more than forty-five years of clinical nursing and thirty-nine years of formal teaching experience provide her students with theoretical and clinical expertise.
TEACHING EXPERIENCES:
Included in her professional teaching portfolio are coronary care certification classes and NCLEX-RN nursing reviews for the National Nursing Review in Los Altos, California.
Prof. Konecny has appeared as a guest lecturer in numerous baccalaureate-nursing programs where she taught academic courses in critical care nursing and professional nursing practice.
She has been a presenter at numerous nursing conferences addressing the nurse’s role and responsibilities in the clinical management of client care.
Prof. Konecny served as Chairperson of St. Vincent’s Hospital, School of Nursing in the Advanced Medical-Surgical Nursing Department for five years prior to accepting a teaching post at Seton Hall University. After teaching at Seton Hall University for five years, Prof. Konecny moved to Felician College, where she taught advanced medical-surgical nursing concepts, critical-care nursing courses, and a professional nursing practice capstone course. During her tenure at Felician College, Prof. Konecny designed and established a highly successful NCLEX-RN Advisement Program for the College’s undergraduate nursing program.
Prof. Konecny moved from Felician College to New York City College of Technology and has been a pioneer at the College in distance learning. She was the first CUNY faculty member to pilot an online format using voice and audio technology to present distance-learning lectures in real time to her nursing theory classes. This online format, known as Bb Collaborate/Wimba has been embraced and supported by CUNY’s 23 college campuses and is used exclusively in CUNY’s Online Baccalaureate Program.
Prof. Konecny has presented this teaching technology at numerous technology conferences and had served as CityTech’s Nursing Department’s Information Technology liaison until her retirement in 2013.
During Prof. Konecny’s ten-year tenure at the College she served as the course coordinator of the third semester medical-surgical nursing theory class, NUR 2110: Caring for Clients with Complex Alteration in Survival and Functional Needs. She also taught the baccalaureate-nursing course, NUR 4050: Family Centered End-of-Life Care across the Lifespan, which is a totally online nursing elective. In 2012 she developed the nursing elective: NUR 4020 Women’s Health and Wellness Across the Life Continuum, for the College’s Baccalaureate Nursing Program.
CURRENT TEACHING ASSIGNMENT/EXPERIENCES:
After her retirement from full-time teaching in 2013, Prof. Konecny continued part-time at the College teaching as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Baccalaureate Nursing Program. Committed to online pedagogy, she teaches the following online nursing courses:
1. NUR 4050 Family Centered End-of-Life Care Across the Lifespan
2. NUR 4020 Women’s Health and Wellness Across the Life Continuum
3. NUR 4090 Geriatric Nursing
4. NUR 4070 Nursing Informatics
5. NUR 4130 Professional Nursing Practices
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Prof. Konecny’s research interests focus on end-of-life client care and quality of life concerns among female breast cancer survivors.
As a result of her research interests she became a member of the Research Committee sponsored by Sigma Theta Tau International, Mu Upsilon Chapter, Staten Island. This group has focused on the nurse’s role in meeting the spiritual needs of clients and their significant others. As a result of their research interests, this Committee has published three (3) articles on this subject and has contributed evidence-based interventions on spiritual distress to the International Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) colloquium.
Prof. Konecny also partnered with her long-time colleague, Dr. Angela Sammarco, an Associate Professor of Nursing at CSI. Dr. Sammarco is a noted and respected nursing researcher on quality of life concerns among female breast cancer survivors.
Prof. Konecny and Dr. Sammarco have collaborated on several PSC-CUNY research funded grants on quality of life concerns among Latina breast cancer survivors. The two researchers have also collaborated on a comparative study between Latina and Caucasian female breast cancer survivors, which examine the similarities and dissimilarities between these two cohorts. Both Prof. Konecny and Dr. Sammarco were invited to Howard University in Washington, D.C. to present their research findings. Two (2) articles on this research have appeared in Oncology Nursing Forum 2008-2009 issues.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Prof. Konecny is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society Mu Upsilon and Mu-Theta-at-Large Chapters.
CityTech Nursing Honor Society.
Prof. Konecny is a consulting member of the Nurses Advisory Committee for the American Cancer Society, Staten Island Chapter, which plans annual professional development programs for the tri-state areas.
Prof. Konecny currently volunteers her services as Parish Nurse at Incarnation Lutheran Church, Silver Springs, Florida.
