BN-315

Clinical III: Medical Surgical I

This course will provide the learner with opportunities to examine and apply the role of the Registered Nurse in caring for patients with acute and chronic conditions in a medical-surgical environment. The learner will demonstrate providing safe, competent, compassionate, ethical, and evidence-informed care across the lifespan in response to client needs. The learner will demonstrate the application of nursing knowledge, ethics, critical thinking, self-reflection, and the integration of evidenced-informed practices into the nursing process to care for clients with acute and chronic conditions in the clinical setting. The learner will foster their development of critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment in the clinical setting. At the end of the clinical experience, the learner will demonstrate competency in the nursing skills of sterile and non-sterile dressing changes, spirometry, chest physio, deep-breathing, coughing, splinting, medication administration (oral, eye, nose, inhalation, topical, rectal, vaginal, and parental), intravenous therapy, administering oxygen devices, and initiating, monitoring, and discontinuing Foleys or intermittent catheters.

Credit Hours

83

Min. Grade

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