PNE 103 - Beginning Medical/Surgical Nursing

4 Credit(s)

This course is designed to provide an introduction to the basic concepts of Medical Surgical Nursing with an emphasis on meeting the needs of the whole client. Topics cover will include the nursing process as it relates to various disease processes and health promotion. The various body systems and the disease process associated with them will be covered in the areas of etiology, diagnosis, clinical signs and symptoms, treatment and nursing implications/interventions. The basis for this instruction will be evidence based practice.

Contact Hours: 120
Clinical: 90
Hours Lecture: 30
Prerequisite: Program Admission, PNE 110, PNE 101, PNE 102
Corequisite: PNE 104