BN-415

Clinical IV: Medical Surgical II

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 by applying fundamental nursing knowledge and skills. At the end of the clinical experience, the learner will demonstrate competency in the nursing skills used in Clinical III: Medical Surgical I and new nursing skills of pre-, intra, and post-surgical care, monitoring epidural, patient controlled analgesics, and anaesthetics, fractures, sutures, staples, and drain care, chest tubes, nasogastric insertion, enteral feeding and medications, intravenous insertion, intravenous medications, tracheostomy care, and caring for patient with central venous access devices.

Credit Hours

174

Min. Grade

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