Nursing Concepts II

Catalog description

Seven lecture. Six lab. This course relates the adult client in medical-surgical settings with a focus is on all body systems with associated disease processes. Emphasis will be placed on the nursing process, medication administration, teaching, and chronic disease management with each body system. Students will be able to: apply prioritizing frameworks to care for patients in adult medical-surgical settings; demonstrate competence in performing supervised nursing skills in adult medical-surgical settings; apply evidence-based practices in caring for patients in adult-medical surgical settings; demonstrate safe practices in the adult medical-surgical settings; demonstrate ethical and legal behaviors of a nurse in adult-medical surgical settings; apply the nursing process to provide client-centered care in the clinical settings; utilize appropriate technology while caring for patients in adult medical-surgical settings; demonstrate collegiality and teamwork with nursing and interprofessional teams in adult-medical surgical settings. Prerequisite(s): NUR 114 and NUR 116 . Pre/Corequisite(s): BIO 218 , NTR 135