Medical-Surgical Nursing III

Catalog description

In this course, you will analyze and develop a plan of care for adult clients experiencing complex multisystem medical-surgical and critical care illnesses. The nursing process will be used to formulate, implement, and evaluate appropriate nursing care of adult health issues in the medical-surgical client. By building upon the knowledge gained in earlier nursing courses, the use of evidence-based practice and critical thinking will be used to justify the best nursing interventions for the acutely ill, highly complex, medical surgical patients. You will learn to synthesize the purpose, significance of results, and nursing responsibilities related to diagnostic studies in all areas of hematology, cardiac, respiratory, and neurologic care from a holistic approach, including cultural competence. Course-specific content will include nursing care related to health alterations in the following body systems: hematology, immunology, respiratory, cardiac, and neurology. You must successfully complete all requirements of both didactic and clinical courses. Failure of one course will lead to a repeat of both the didactic and clinical courses.