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NURS 150 - Medical-Surgical Nursing I

4 hrs (Sem II)
Builds on basic curricular concepts and principles. The nursing process is used when caring for clients with stressors of alterations in acid-base balance, nutritional intake and elimination, nutritional absorption and metabolism, cancer, and musculoskeletal integrity. Nutritional concerns, as they relate to these alterations and stressors, are included. The laboratory is utilized for students to acquire more advanced nursing skills. Students apply the nursing process in the clinical setting when caring for the adult client with common medical and surgical health problems. 5 lecture hours, 7 clinical laboratory hours, 2 laboratory hours (8-week course).

Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in NURS 100 , BIOL 111 , BIOL 111L , CHEM 101 , and CHEM 101L  . Corequisite(s): NURS 130 .