NRSG 1720 - Medical-Surgical Nursing I

7 sem hrs cr (5 lecture; 2 clinical/lab)

This course applies the core concepts that provide the basis for the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are essential for providing safe nursing care including pharmacological management for adults with alterations in health that are primarily chronic in nature. Prerequisite: NRSG 1710 Fundamentals in Nursing , BIOL 2010 , ENGL 1010 , PSYC 1030   Prerequisite or Corequisite: BIOL 2020 , MATH 1530  

In rare and unusual circumstances, a course prerequisite can be overridden with the permission of the Department Lead for the discipline. 

Transfer (UT) or Non-Transfer Course (UN): UN

To successfully complete NRSG 1720, the student will be able to demonstrate the following competencies and behaviors:

• PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIORS
  • Conduct self in a professional manner in dress and conduct while caring for clients and interacting with clients, instructors, peers, and the health care team.
  • Practice within the legal, ethical and regulatory frameworks of the nursing profession and the standards of professional nursing practice.
  • Demonstrate accountability for nursing care given by self.
• COMMUNICATION
  • Demonstrate basic effective communication with clients and members of the healthcare team using oral, written, and electronic forms of communication.
  • Report and document assessments, interventions, and progress toward client outcomes with assistance of instructor.
• ASSESSMENT
  • Demonstrate the ability to collect subjective and objective data to identify actual or potential health alterations.
  • Perform physical and psychosocial assessments, utilize normal and abnormal findings and other supportive data to identify appropriate nursing diagnoses with instructor assistance.
  • Assess the client and significant support person(s) and identify learning strengths, barriers, and educational needs.
• CLINICAL DECISION MAKING
  • Formulate clinical decisions to provide safe and effective evidenced based nursing care.
  • Utilize assessment data to evaluate the client’s condition, and, with instructor guidance, plan care.
  • Evaluate the client’s progression toward planned outcomes, identify modifications to care which are needed to assist client to meet outcomes with instructor assistance.
• CARING INTERVENTIONS
  • Demonstrate caring interventions that incorporate principles of dignity, diversity, safety and knowledge.
  • Discuss the care regimen as prescribed by the health care provider with clinical instructor and health care team.
  • Continue to demonstrate competency in previously learned psychomotor skills and theory and apply these to the clinical setting.
  • Utilize theory knowledge regarding disease processes and human physiology to identify clinical signs and symptoms.
  • Plan care based on an understanding of disease process. Identify varied treatment modalities and implement with instructor assistance.
• TEACHING
  • Develop an individualized basic teaching s to meet the educational needs of patients, families, and/or groups.
  • With instructor guidance, teach the client and significant support person(s) the information and skills needed to achieve desired learning outcomes
  • Evaluate learning that has taken place and identify how the teaching plan may be modified.
• COLLABORATION
  • Collaborate with clients and significant support persons to identify health goals and promote optimal health maintenance
  • Identify and interact with members of the health care team who are involved in the coordination of cost effective, competent care with positive quality outcomes.
  • Interact with client, support person(s), clinical instructor, and members of the health care team to identify and solve problems which may impede the achievement of client goals and outcomes.
• COORDINATION & MANAGEMENT
  • Using basic principles of managing care, identify prioritization of client needs and nursing actions to ensure positive outcomes.
  • Discuss available resources, time constraints and environmental factors which impact the management of the client’s care.