Academic Catalog

PNSG 1620 Adult Health Nursing III

Focuses on client care and clinical client care including using the nursing process, performing assessments, developing
critical thinking, engaging in client education, and displaying cultural competence in the adult population and with
attention to special populations. Lecture/lab topics include functions of the human body, terminology associated with
healthcare, health management and maintenance; prevention of illness; care of the individual as a whole; immunology;
as well as pathological diseases, disorders and deviations from the normal state of health, client care, treatment,
pharmacology, nutrition and standard precautions with regard to the neurological and sensory systems, disaster
preparedness, emergency response, triage, and bioterrorism. Clinical topics include, but are not limited to: hygiene and
personal care; mobility and biomechanics; fluid and electrolytes; oxygen care; perioperative care; immunology; mental
health; and oncology, and standard precautions concerning cardiovascular, hematological, immunological, respiratory,
neurological, sensory, musculoskeletal, endocrine, gastrointestinal, urinary, integumentary and reproductive systems.
This course contains lectures and regular lab 4125/50 =82.5 hours and clinical has 3750/60 =62.5 hours.

Credits

6