Medical Surgical Nursing I

Catalog description

This course focuses on nursing care issues related to the management of clients with chronic alterations or conditions in neurosensory, respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine, genitourinary, musculoskeletal, integumentary systems. Gerontological consideration and healthcare management across lifespan will be highlighted. Prioritization, critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment will be the focus of learning in this course. Students will integrate their knowledge on how to develop the plan of care for their clients by applying nursing process, pathophysiology, and pharmacologic concepts and dosage calculations. This will be documented in the Concept Care Map that will be required in this course.