Adult Health and Illness II: Care of the Geriatric Adult

Catalog description

This course will focus on nursing care of adults with comorbid and complex medical and surgical conditions. Emphasis will be placed on the most common acute and chronic medical and surgical conditions prevalent in the adult population. Complex cases will facilitate clinical reasoning in the care of the adult with consideration to the older adult population. The nursing care in these conditions will highlight the physiological, psychological, pharmacological, emotional, and social implications of the adult population.