Advanced Adult Health.

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Anticipated first class: Spring 2028 Integrating the fundamentals of care for the roles of the professional nurse as a provider of patient-centered care, member of the profession and healthcare team, and patient safety advocate with Marianist values, this course focuses on advanced patient-centered clinical concepts and skills focusing on adult health with complex and critical medical-surgical health care needs. Students utilize the nursing process to plan for safe, evidence-based, nursing interventions and demonstrate caring behaviors to assist adults with complex and critical medical-surgical healthcare needs and their families to enhance, protect or preserve optimum health or end-of-life experience. The course imparts nursing knowledge, advances clinical judgement skills to clinical reasoning, and promotes an advanced level of situational awareness, communication, and assessment skills central to the nursing process in the care of adults with common medical-surgical health care needs. Application of clinical concepts and skills are practiced in simulation and various clinical settings. An additional fee is associated with this course. See the fee schedule for details at https://www.stmarytx.edu/admission/financial-aid/tuition/. Prerequisite: NU 3601 Adult Health; NU 4402 Childrearing Families; NU 4401 Childbearing Families.