Description
Applies a systematic approach for the comprehensive coverage of the nursing care of adults with disorders requiring medical and surgical management. Each unit covers a body system and begins with assessment, age-related changes, diagnostic tests and procedures, and common therapeutic measures that are related to the body system discusses. Specific disorders and nursing care are then discusses. Students continue to develop skills using NANDA terminology and the nursing process. There is an associated preceptorship component to this course in which a student completes a 45-hour, one to one situation with an LPN or RN in a health care setting.