PNSG 1625 Adult Health Nursing IV

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 integumentary and musculoskeletal systems and
oncology. 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 with
regard to cardiovascular, hematological, immunological, respiratory, neurological, sensory, musculoskeletal, endocrine,
gastrointestinal, urinary, integumentary and reproductive systems. After, this adult health course students will have
completed a minimum of 4125/50= 82.5 lecture/lab contact hours and 3750/60=62.5 clinical hour.