Lecture: 4 hours/week
Faculty will facilitate the student's integration of nursing theory and promote the development of critical inquiry, clinical reasoning and judgment through learning activities such as lectures, group discussions, client-based scenarios, and using electronic resources.
Adult medical-surgical clients:
- Growth and developmental considerations
- Considerations for older adults
- Common and predictable acute health challenges
- Health challenges requiring surgical intervention
- Fatigue
- Infection
- Loss of consciousness
- Mobility/immobility
- Social determinants of health
Nursing care:
- Perioperative experience
- The nursing process
- Decision-making
- Adverse events
- Patient education
Pain:
- Management
- Physical, psycho-social, spiritual
Anxiety and fear:
- Hospitalization
- Separation
- Courage
- Trauma
- Body integrity
- Dying
- Complications
- Recovery
- Control
- Hardiness
- Resilience
Safety:
- Client/family safety
- Nurses’ work environment
Teaching and learning:
- Preoperative
- Postoperative
- Discharge planning
Legal responsibilities:
- Client rights
- Advocacy
- Confidentiality
- Informed consent
- Reporting and documentation
Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Synthesize knowledge to formulate client-centred nursing decisions;
- Examine health issues and trends relevant to the medical-surgical context through critical inquiry, reflection, and analytical reasoning;
- Employ a relational perspective to explore individuals' experiences of health challenges;
- Apply knowledge from a variety of sources to plan care for adult clients in a medical-surgical setting;
- Describe the role of the nurse within an interprofessional team.
This is a graded course, and the means of assessment are consistent with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy. The instructor's course outline will be available to students by the first class and list the evaluative components of the course.
The instructor's course outline will be available to students by the first class and list the required textbooks and materials that students must purchase.