Adult Health III

Adult Health III prepares students to provide safe, equitable, high quality complex medical surgical nursing care for diverse adult populations across the lifespan in various health care settings. This includes health promotion and management of both acute and chronic conditions. This course explores how social determinants of health impact health risk and outcome. This course will focus on caring for patients with potentially life-threatening alterations of the respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine, and neurologic, renal, hepatic systems, end of life care (palliative), shock and transplants. Clinical judgment and problem solving are emphasized in the assessment of critically ill patients and prioritizing patient ‘s needs and nursing interventions. A variety of populations and settings are used in the experiential learning components of this course. Co-requisites: D455

Official catalog text — WGU-authored.