Medical Surgical Nursing I

Catalog description

The course focuses on assessing and fulfilling the patient’s biological, psychological, cultural, and spiritual needs. The student learns the importance of building a respectful and trusting relationship with the client as nursing care is delivered. The course introduces concepts of the pathophysiology of the body’s major systems and their disease processes, emphasizing health promotion and illness prevention. In applying the nursing process, critical thinking is reinforced in delivering nursing care to clients in different health care settings. The course is structured to provide clinical application and evaluation in medical-surgical nursing skills.