NURS 422 Pathophysiology, Pharmacology, and Medical Surgical Nursing Care Adult II
This course focuses on the synthesis of content of pathophysiology, pharmacology, and evidence-based nursing care of adults throughout the continuum of care. Management of complex alterations
of health and wellness which may involve more than one body system will be emphasized. Students are introduced to urgent and emergent pathophysiologic conditions and the evidence based holistic nursing clinical judgement needed in rapidly changing health states. This course is part of a competency based nursing curriculum leading to the baccalaureate of science degree in nursing.
Prerequisites
3 Undergraduate credits
Effective December 11, 2023 to present
Learning outcomes
General
- Apply clinical reasoning to interpret assessment data of clients with complex disease processes to plan evidence based, person centered care.
- Predict the system specific clinical manifestations of select complex disease processes.
- Apply evidence based, holistic nursing care of clients with complex disease processes.
- Apply principles of pharmacotherapeutics to safely implement select pharmacologic interventions for clients with complex disease processes.
- Examine select potentially life threatening adverse drug events that may occur in the acute care setting.
- Describe genetic variations that may impact pharmacotherapy.