Apr 23, 2024  
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1 
    
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1

NSG 4513 Adult Health Nursing III


Lecture: 5 Lab: 0 Practica: 2 Total Credits: 7
Adult Health Nursing III continues to build on students’ ability to relate concepts skills and techniques needed to care for adult clients with complex health problems through classroom and clinical experiences. This course encompasses the concepts of caring, collaboration, communication, competence, clinical skills, cultural sensitivity, community, and environment into nursing practice. The course focuses on nursing practice that facilitates the wellbeing of individuals within the context of illness and continues in preparing the student as a provider of care. In the clinical setting, students will care for selected patients in various settings, applying knowledge of pathophysiology and psychosocial dynamics for patients with complex medical and/or surgical problems. Students will apply the nursing process employing information technologies to develop critical inquiry and clinical decision making to meet the needs of culturally diverse, ill adults while collaborating with other health care professionals. Concepts include problems related to hematological, oncological, and immunological systems and complex health disorders related to burn injury, shock, advanced cardiovascular, and advanced respiratory conditions.

Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of first four quarters of nursing courses
Co-requisite(s): NSG 4533 , NSG 4552