Mar 28, 2024  
Course/Program Inventory 
    
Course/Program Inventory

NRSG 1542 - Medical-Surgical Nursing I



Credit hours: 5 (3 lecture; 2 clinical/lab)

Prerequisites: NRSG 1710: Fundamentals of Nursing

Corequisites: BIOL 2020, MATH 1530, Required NRSG Specialty Course

Course Description:
This course applies the core concepts that provide the basis for the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are essential for providing safe nursing care including pharmacological management for adults with alterations in health of that are chronic in nature.  

Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to meet the eight (8) core competencies as evidenced by: 

  1. Professional Behavior: Demonstrate ethical, legal and regulatory frameworks of nursing and standards of professional nursing practice.
  2. Communication: Demonstrate effective communication including information and technology.
  3. Assessment: Demonstrate ability to collect subjective and objective data to identify actual or potential health alterations.
  4. Clinical Decision Making: Formulate clinical decisions to provide safe and effective evidenced-based nursing care.
  5. Caring Interventions: Demonstrate caring interventions that incorporate principles of dignity, diversity, safety and knowledge.
  6. Teaching and Learning:  Develop an individualized teaching plan to meet the learning needs of patients, families, and/or groups.
  7. Collaboration:  Collaborate when planning care.
  8. Managing Care: Use basic principles of managing care.