NURS 135 — Medical Surgical Nursing Concepts 1 NURS 135 3 Credits/Units
Admission into the program required for enrollment. Introductory nursing management of medical-surgical health issues. Topics include but are not limited to: patient teaching/discharge planning, rehabilitation of medical-surgical patients, fluid and electrolytes, shock management, the immune response, infectious diseases, diabetes (including pediatric, adult and gestational), musculoskeletal disorders and the care of patients in the peri-operative setting. All topics address patients throughout the lifespan, and include obstetric patients in a medical-surgical setting. These courses are linked; failure in one course, with a grade of 'C-' or lower or 'U', requires repeat of all concurrent courses. [GE]