Medical Surgical Nursing 3

Catalog description

This course prepares the student to care for a diverse, multicultural population of young, middle and older adults with increasingly complex acute and/or chronic health alterations, within a caring-healing framework. This is the third course in a three course sequence. Course content will include Bioterrorism, Trauma, ESRD, ESLF, Pancreatitis, Cardiac related events, Shock, HIV, AIDs, Cancer, DKA, Burns related pathophysiology content, to allow the student to better synthesize scientific theory, ways of knowing nursing, and nursing practice. Using a holistic approach, students collaborate with the interprofessional team to develop a comprehensive plan of care. This professional nursing care is based on respective nursing diagnoses, and the provision of safe, ethical, evidenced-based nursing interventions that supports the client and family to meet personal health goals.