Adult Health I

Adult Health I prepares students to provide safe, equitable, high quality medical surgical nursing care for diverse adult populations across the lifespan in various health care settings. This includes health promotion and management of common conditions. This course explores how social determinants of health impact health risk and outcome. This course will focus on medical surgical nursing care related to head & neck, skin, inflammation, infection, fluid & electrolytes, respiratory, gastrointestinal, hepatic, genitourinary, and reproductive systems. The nursing process and the clinical judgement model will be used as the foundation to navigate the management of care for patients. A variety of populations and settings are used in the experiential learning components of this course. Co-requisite: D443.

Official catalog text — WGU-authored.