This course is designed to develop knowledge skill attitude among students to provide nursing care to individual having disorders of different body system: musculoskeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular and hematological, gastrointestinal, urinary, neurological, intengumentary, endocrinal including oncology. It provides students an opportunity to apply the nursing process in the care of adult patients with common medical- surgical conditions in a variety of health care settings.
Objectives:
At the end of the course the student will be able to:-
• State the developmental task of young adult and middle age group.
• Explain the physiological and emotional responses of the body to stress and crisis
• Explain the common health problem (disorders) of different body systems of adult patients
• Explain the nursing management of patients having different body system disorders
• Describe the special nursing care of patients related to different body system disorders
• Describe nursing care of patients having different diagnostic procedures
• Explain the communication and information used in patient care
- Teacher: Binju Shakya