LPN 203 — Medical-Surgical Nursing
This unit introduces the students to the care of a client with a disease or disorder requiring medical and/or surgical intervention within an acute care or ambulatory care setting. The content includes the nursing care of patients with selected medical surgical conditions such as neurological conditions, both acute conditions such as head injury and stroke, and clients requiring long term care who have for example - multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and Parkinson's disease. You will be learning about clients with cardiac, respiratory, gastrointestinal problems and renal conditions commonly seen in long term institutions. Care of the hematological client, clients with reproductive system conditions such as STDs and cancer, and care of the burns patient are just some of the other medical surgical conditions covered within this course.