Fall Semester 2021 Catalog

PNSG 2240 MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING IV

Credits

4

This fourth course in a series of four focuses on client care including using the nursing process, performing assessments, using critical thinking, engaging in client education and displaying cultural competence across the life span and with attention to special populations. Topics include: health management and maintenance; prevention of illness; care of the individual as a whole, oncology; as well as pathological diseases, disorders and deviations from the normal state of health, client care, treatment, pharmacology, nutrition and standard precautions with regard to the integumentary and reproductive systems.

Lecture Hours

45

Lab Hours

30

Prerequisite

PNSG 2230, PNSG 2330

Corequisite

PNSG 2340