Spring Semester 2023 Catalog

PNSG 2230 MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING III

Credits

4

This third 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 cutural 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; mental health; 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 neurological, sensory, and musculoskeletal systems.

Lecture Hours

45

Lab Hours

30

Prerequisite

PNSG 2220, PNSG 2320

Corequisite

PNSG 2330