NURS 2560 Semester 4 Med Surg Advanced

Course Information

Pre/Corequisites

Prerequisite: Successfully complete all Semester 3 Courses in order to advance to Semester 4 Courses

Institutional Core Competencies

• Cultural Competence - Students will be able to demonstrate an attitude of personal curiosity, a rising knowledge of cultures, and an evolving range of skills for living and working among others with other worldviews and ways of life.
• Communication - Students will be able to demonstrate appropriate and effective interactions with others to achieve their personal, academic, and professional objectives.
• Civic Engagement and Social Responsibility - Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to engage in the social responsibilities expected of a community member.
• Critical and Creative Thinking - Students will be able to demonstrate purposeful thinking with the goal of using a creative process for developing and building upon ideas and/or the goal of using a critical process for the analyzing and evaluating of ideas.

Course Competencies

1. Differentiate critical and complex problems of the neurological system.
2. Differentiate critical and complex problems for cardiac output and perfusion.
3. Differentiate critical and complex problems for gas exchange and acid-base balance.
4. Differentiate critical and complex problems for regulation and metabolic disorders.
5. Differentiate critical and complex problems for clotting disorders and the hematological system.
6. Differentiate critical and complex problems of excretion.
7. Differentiate critical and complex problems of integumentary and immune systems.
8. Use evidenced-based resources to to support plans of care for complex medical-surgical conditions.
9. Examine ethical dilemmas encountered while caring for client's with complex medical-surgical conditions.
10. Analyze professionalism in a way that integrates accountability, organizational skills, ethics and competent legal behaviors.