NURSING INTERVENTION IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY LAB

Catalog description

three and one half (3.5) hours of lecture and seven and on e half (7.5) hours of laboratory per week. Co-requisite ENFE 4108. Pre -requisite: ENFE 3100, ENFE 3118 -3119, ENFE 3210, ENFE 4100, BIOL3741 -3743, BIOL3742 -3744, QUIM 3051 -3052. The course introduces students to the knowledge and skills for nursing inter vention with adult clients who experience deviation from the most common universal requirements (nutrition, elimination, rest, protection, security, oxygenation sexual satisfaction and development). The nursing process is used in its entirety as a method for problem-solving with emphasis on the validation of diagnosis through significant clinical data and evaluation of care given. Students use therapeutic communication techniques for gathering data. Students make critical evaluations to determine the clients’ health needs. Nursing intervention is directed towards promotion, restoration and maintenance of health in collaboration with patients, their family and the interdisciplinary team. Students apply the ethical, moral and legal guidelines when dealing with adult clients in health deviation.