NSG3105 - Intro to Medical-Surgical Nursing
🩺 A challenging, dynamic, and diverse area of nursing that
What is Medical-Surgical Nursing? focuses on the care of adult patients with a wide variety of medical
issues or who are recovering from surgery.
⚡ Challenging
What are the characteristics of
🔄 Constantly evolving (dynamic)
medical- surgical nursing?
🌍 Involves diverse patient populations and conditions
♀ Monitoring patients
💊 Administering medications
What are the primary
🔗 Coordinating care
responsibilities of a medical-
📚 Providing education
surgical nurse?
🚨 Responding to changes in patient conditions
🧠 Enables timely, accurate decisions about patient care
Why is critical thinking
📌 Helps prioritize interventions
important in medical-surgical
🔄 Supports adapting to complex, changing clinical situations
nursing?
LACIER
🧭 Leadership, accountability, courage, and persistence
👵 Aging population
What are future challenges for nursing? 💻 Changing technology
💡 Innovation, risk-taking, and decision making
🔄 Evolving nursing roles
🧠 Reasoning, analytical thinking, and synthesizing rapidly expanding
knowledge
🏥 Separate units
- 💻 Support new technology
What defines Medical-Surgical - 💉 Enable elaborate interventions
Nursing today? - ⏱ Improve efficiency
🎓 Specialized knowledge and practice
- 📈 Involves more responsibilities
, 👥 Multidisciplinary team
- 📚 In-depth knowledge
What are key elements of
- 🧑⚕ Covers a wide range of disciplines
contemporary care in nursing?
⚠ High-risk patients
🏥 Specialized units
📊 Research-based interventions
What defines evidence-based nursing - 📜 Early practice was based on tradition
practice? - 🔬 Shift toward using the best available data
✅ Consistent, positive outcomes
📈 Use of valid and reliable data
🎯 How do we strive for best 🧪 EPB (evidence-based practice) & research utilization models
practice? 📢 "Practice Alert"
💗 Caring
What are key components of
🧍 Individualized care
holistic critical care nursing?
🌐 Cultural care
What are key components of 🤝 Merges psychosocial elements with technologic environment
holistic critical care nursing? -
💗 Caring
What are key components of ✅ Respects patient’s preferences
holistic critical care nursing? - 🧍 Patient- and family-centred care
Individualized care 🧬 Encourages family integration
What are key components of 🌍 Reflects societal values
holistic critical care nursing? - 🌐 🧑🎨 Incorporates individual differences
Cultural care
What role do family members play Defined by the patient — family is who the patient says it is
in patient care? 📈 Research shows better outcomes when families actively participate
ℹ
Information
Families often need: Comfort
💪 Support
✅ Assurance
🚪 Accessibility
💡 Goal: Interprofessional collaboration
🌐 Competencies:
🧩 Core Competencies for - Role Clarification
Interprofessional Collaborative Practice: - ✅ Team Functioning
-🤗 Collaborative Leadership
-💪 Interprofessional Conflict Resolution
📋 Assess competencies’ relevance
🧩 Core Competencies for
🛠 Develop an action plan
Interprofessional Collaborative Practice:
- Using the framework
What are the benefits of 🏥 Improves quality of care and services
interprofessional collaborative 💰 Reduces or contains healthcare costs
practice?
What is the Institute of Medicine 📘 The IOM report raised awareness about the need to improve patient
(IOM) report known for in safety and
healthcare? healthcare quality across all systems.
Why is safety considered an ethical ⚖ Nurses are ethically responsible for ensuring safe care, preventing
imperative in nursing? harm, and advocating for patient well-being.
Why do errors occur in healthcare ❓ Errors often result from system issues like miscommunication, lack of
environments? protocols, or poor workflow—not just individual mistakes.
What makes medication administration a 💊 Administering medications involves risks like interruptions, similar
🩺 A challenging, dynamic, and diverse area of nursing that
What is Medical-Surgical Nursing? focuses on the care of adult patients with a wide variety of medical
issues or who are recovering from surgery.
⚡ Challenging
What are the characteristics of
🔄 Constantly evolving (dynamic)
medical- surgical nursing?
🌍 Involves diverse patient populations and conditions
♀ Monitoring patients
💊 Administering medications
What are the primary
🔗 Coordinating care
responsibilities of a medical-
📚 Providing education
surgical nurse?
🚨 Responding to changes in patient conditions
🧠 Enables timely, accurate decisions about patient care
Why is critical thinking
📌 Helps prioritize interventions
important in medical-surgical
🔄 Supports adapting to complex, changing clinical situations
nursing?
LACIER
🧭 Leadership, accountability, courage, and persistence
👵 Aging population
What are future challenges for nursing? 💻 Changing technology
💡 Innovation, risk-taking, and decision making
🔄 Evolving nursing roles
🧠 Reasoning, analytical thinking, and synthesizing rapidly expanding
knowledge
🏥 Separate units
- 💻 Support new technology
What defines Medical-Surgical - 💉 Enable elaborate interventions
Nursing today? - ⏱ Improve efficiency
🎓 Specialized knowledge and practice
- 📈 Involves more responsibilities
, 👥 Multidisciplinary team
- 📚 In-depth knowledge
What are key elements of
- 🧑⚕ Covers a wide range of disciplines
contemporary care in nursing?
⚠ High-risk patients
🏥 Specialized units
📊 Research-based interventions
What defines evidence-based nursing - 📜 Early practice was based on tradition
practice? - 🔬 Shift toward using the best available data
✅ Consistent, positive outcomes
📈 Use of valid and reliable data
🎯 How do we strive for best 🧪 EPB (evidence-based practice) & research utilization models
practice? 📢 "Practice Alert"
💗 Caring
What are key components of
🧍 Individualized care
holistic critical care nursing?
🌐 Cultural care
What are key components of 🤝 Merges psychosocial elements with technologic environment
holistic critical care nursing? -
💗 Caring
What are key components of ✅ Respects patient’s preferences
holistic critical care nursing? - 🧍 Patient- and family-centred care
Individualized care 🧬 Encourages family integration
What are key components of 🌍 Reflects societal values
holistic critical care nursing? - 🌐 🧑🎨 Incorporates individual differences
Cultural care
What role do family members play Defined by the patient — family is who the patient says it is
in patient care? 📈 Research shows better outcomes when families actively participate
ℹ
Information
Families often need: Comfort
💪 Support
✅ Assurance
🚪 Accessibility
💡 Goal: Interprofessional collaboration
🌐 Competencies:
🧩 Core Competencies for - Role Clarification
Interprofessional Collaborative Practice: - ✅ Team Functioning
-🤗 Collaborative Leadership
-💪 Interprofessional Conflict Resolution
📋 Assess competencies’ relevance
🧩 Core Competencies for
🛠 Develop an action plan
Interprofessional Collaborative Practice:
- Using the framework
What are the benefits of 🏥 Improves quality of care and services
interprofessional collaborative 💰 Reduces or contains healthcare costs
practice?
What is the Institute of Medicine 📘 The IOM report raised awareness about the need to improve patient
(IOM) report known for in safety and
healthcare? healthcare quality across all systems.
Why is safety considered an ethical ⚖ Nurses are ethically responsible for ensuring safe care, preventing
imperative in nursing? harm, and advocating for patient well-being.
Why do errors occur in healthcare ❓ Errors often result from system issues like miscommunication, lack of
environments? protocols, or poor workflow—not just individual mistakes.
What makes medication administration a 💊 Administering medications involves risks like interruptions, similar
