NURS 4540 - Advanced Medical Surgical Nursing

Evidence-based theories, concepts, and basic critical-care skills are emphasized within the framework of the nursing process using critical thinking skills to provide holistic nursing care to critically ill patients and their families. In tertiary care settings, students apply advanced nursing skills, standards of ethical professional nursing practice, Christian values of caring, faith, and service, and servant-leadership principles to assist adult patients with high risk, unstable, and critical health conditions to restore, maintain, and promote health or to die with dignity. Responsibility and accountability for nursing care, collaboration, resource conservation and use, and respect for human worth and dignity are foundational to effective clinical judgments and patient-centered outcomes. Three lecture hours per week and 90 clinical hours. This course is eligible for honors credit.

Prerequisite(s): NURS 3550, NURS 4200, NURS 4530

Credit Hours: 5

Term Offered: Fall, Spring (Summer for NW AR only)

Fee(s): $525

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