Medical-Surgical Nursing

Catalog description

NUR130 Medical-Surgical Nursing builds on Nursing Fundamentals and provides students with a series of lessons that will enable them to develop a more advanced nursing skills mix that also includes refining critical thinking and clinical judgement and how t hese skills can be used in the nursing process. The student will view the patient as a holistic individual with basic human needs and consider the patient’s needs based on Maslow Theory Model. The course will begin with lecture hours and move from lab to the clinical setting where students will work with the adult patients building on previously learned skills in the clinical setting. In this course, students will be developing the skills required to perform nursing services specific to the body systems and spec ial senses. Students will also refine the principles of IV therapy in the clinical site and lab. Prerequisite: Student must have passed the following courses NUR100 & NUR119 and NUR105 & NUR115