Advanced Medical-Surgical Nursing is the final acute care course in which the student will have multiple patient assignments, function as a team leader, discharge patients and incorporate all knowledge learned in the curriculum. This clinical nursing course will focus on emergent and critical health conditions using critical thinking within the framework of the nursing process. Students will experience emergency, critical care and step-down telemetry nursing. The student must successfully complete this course with a C+ to graduate. Satisfactory and safe performance in the skills lab is required to pass the course Internet assignments are required in the course. Liability insurance, lab fee, testing fee, and course fee. Prerequisites: Successful completion of prior required Nursing courses (NURS 1200, NURS 1300, NURS 1400, NURS 1600, NURS 1650, NURS 1675, NURS 2200, NURS 2250, NURS 2275, and NURS 2300). Prior completion of all science requirements: BIOL 1210 & BIOL 1220 or BIOL 2020 & BIOL 2030, and BIOL 2010. All program requirements require a final grade of C+ (77%) or higher to be eligible for program graduation. Corequisites: NURS 2400. Lab fee. Course fee.
Semester Offered
Spring