Course Description
Advanced medical-surgical concepts are explored in the classroom setting. Concurrent clinical experiences focus on enabling the beginning graduate nurse to utilize the nursing process in managing and administering safe, individualized nursing care in an advanced medical-surgical setting.
Course Fee
$266
Topical Outline
- Math Review
- Peripheral Nerve & Spinal Cord Injury
- Burns
- Endocrine
- Trach Concepts
- Chest Trauma & Chest Tubes
- Critical Care Concepts
- CVA
- Respiratory Failure & ARDS
- ABGs, Airway Management, Mechanical Ventilation
- Renal Failure
- Aneurysms
- Head Trauma
- Immune Response
- Leadership
- Shock
- NCLEX readiness
- Capstone Information & NCLEX Application Process
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Manage responsibility and accountability for nursing care while practicing within the legal, ethical and regulatory scopes of nursing practice.
- Create effective verbal, nonverbal, and written communication with clients and health care team members.
- Utilize the nursing process in the promotion of health for safe and effective client care.
- Organize client care integrating the nursing process and evidence-based practice for clinical decision making.
- Manage a nursing environment that supports a caring person-centered environment, where client choices related to cultural values, beliefs, and lifestyle are respected.
- Formulate health education to promote and facilitate informed decision making and achieve positive client outcomes.
- Collaborate with clients and health care team members in the responsibilities of shared planning, decision making, problem solving and goal setting to provide quality care.
- Utilize effective resources to meet client needs.