NURS 4437: Medical-Surgical Specialty Elective

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: NURS 3313
This elective course expands medical-surgical concepts in the curriculum to help students better understand specialty roles of nurses in selected medical-surgical settings. Emphasis is placed on applying knowledge using the nursing process to guide clinical practice and in providing safe, patient-centered care in the selected medical-surgical specialty setting. Students explore physiological and behavioral responses, interdisciplinary care, ethics, survivorship, and emerging technologies and trends.