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.
Prerequisite(s)
RNUR 2228 and RNUR 2443 - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
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.
Topical Outline
1. Math Review
2. Peripheral Nerve & Spinal Cord Injury
3. Burns
4. Endocrine
5. Trach Concepts
6. Chest Trauma & Chest Tubes
7. Critical Care Concepts
8. CVA
9. Respiratory Failure & ARDS
10. ABGs, Airway Management, Mechanical Ventilation
11. Renal Failure
12. Aneurysms
13. Head Trauma
14. Immune Response
15. Leadership
16. Shock
17. NCLEX readiness
18. Capstone Information & NCLEX Application Process