Medical-Surgical Nursing (NUR 1380)

Term: 2025 Summer Semester

Faculty

Krystal Renee RomaineShow MyInfo popup for Krystal Renee Romaine

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Jessica M HigginbothamShow MyInfo popup for Jessica M Higginbotham

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Advisor MAC Allied Health DeptShow MyInfo popup for Advisor MAC Allied Health Dept

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Jacquelyn Denise SzalmasagiShow MyInfo popup for Jacquelyn Denise Szalmasagi

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Division Chair MAC Allied Health and SciencesShow MyInfo popup for Division Chair MAC Allied Health and Sciences

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Jessica Dawn ChamberlainShow MyInfo popup for Jessica Dawn Chamberlain

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Description

Prerequisite: Successful completion of all program in Practical Nursing first and second trimester courses, and sequential Practical Nursing program courses, with a minimum grade of C.
Designed to prepare students to respond to a wide array of demands and changes with the current shifting of nursing care from acute care hospital to community-based settings and the home. A continuing emphasis is placed on ethnic and cultural diversity, critical thinking through the nursing process, and client/family teaching about detection, prevention, and management of complications for clients being discharged within very few days of newly diagnosed major illnesses and surgeries. Concepts and challenges in client management, including concepts and general principles in perioperative, intraoperative, and postoperative client management, are stressed. Assessment, general management, and therapeutic interventions of specific pathophysiologic dysfunctions of major body systems as well as acute problems