# NUR356 Medical Surgical Nursing I

College of Nursing Nursing Department

**Course Description:** This course introduces the student to setting priorities, communicating, planning and providing care for medical-surgical patients with multiple physiological and psychosocial needs in diverse healthcare settings. Students learn health promotion, maintenance, and restoration. Students engage in health teaching and counseling when caring for medical-surgical clients. Opportunities to identify best practices from selected sources of current nursing evidence are provided. Students communicate with the interdisciplinary team to initiate plan of care and participate in quality improvement processes. Learning opportunities are presented in the classroom, simulation, and in supervised clinical experiences.

**Credit Hours:** 5.00

**Prerequisites:** All of: [NUR221](https://www.ecpi.edu/course/NUR221 "View NUR221"), [NUR309](https://www.ecpi.edu/course/NUR309 "View NUR309"), [NUR310](https://www.ecpi.edu/course/NUR310 "View NUR310")

**Corequisites:** None

## Programs offering this course

- [Nursing (BSN)](https://www.ecpi.edu/programs/bsn-degree-bachelor-of-science-nursing)

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