Exam (elaborations) NSC MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING

COURSE OVERVIEW Medical Surgical Nursing (I) Medical Surgical Nursing (I) is the first of the four Medical Surgical Nursing courses in your degree programme. It is registrable at the first semester of the third year. The course shall improve on your previous knowledge to enhance better understanding of principles, concepts and theories of Medical Surgical Nursing. It also briefly presents the models and theories of nursing that are used to inform current nursing care planning and implementation. The care of patients with diverse medicalsurgical conditions is discussed with activities expected of you to be done to aid application of new knowledge to your current practice. The course has the theory, laboratory components as well as clinical practice that spread over 15 weeks. The course is presented in Modules with small units. Each unit is presented to follow the same pattern that guides your learning. Each module and unit have the learning objectives that helps you track what to learn and what you should be able to do after completion. Small units of contents will be presented every week with guidelines of what you should do to enhance knowledge retention as had been laid out in the course materials. Practical sessions will be negotiated online with you as desirable with information about venue, date and title of practical session. COURSE OBJECTIVES At the completion of this course, you should be able to: i. Discuss the concepts and theories of nursing care. ii. Apply new knowledge in providing care for patients with alterations in fluid and electrolyte balance, shock, stress, pain temperature control and skin care. iii. Discuss physical and psychosocial needs of clients/patients with special medical/surgical conditions with adequate nursing care. iv. Discuss the cause, the course and the management of inflammation. COURSE IMPLEMENTATION DOING THE COURSE The course will be delivered adopting the blended learning mode; 70% of online interactive sessions and 30% of face-to-face laboratory sessions. You are expected to register for this course online in order to gain access to all the materials and class sessions online. You will have access to both hard and soft copies of course materials as well as online interactive sessions and face-to-face interaction with instructors during practical sessions in the laboratory. The interactive online activities will NSC 305 COURSE GUIDE vi be available to you on the course link on the Website of NOUN. There are activities and assignments online for every unit every week. It is important that you visit the course sites weekly and do all assignments to meet deadlines and to contribute to the topical issues that would be raised for everyone’s contribution. You will be expected to read every module along with all assigned readings to prepare you for meaningful contributions to all sessions and completion of all activities. It is important that you attempt all the Self Assessment Questions (SAQ) at the end of every unit to help your understanding of the contents and to help you prepare for the in-course tests and the final examination. You will also be expected to keep a portfolio where you keep all your completed assignments. COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND EXPECTATIONS OF YOU Attendance of 95% of all interactive sessions, submission of all assignments to meet deadlines; participation in all CMA, attendance of all laboratory sessions with evidence as provided in the log book, submission of reports from all laboratory practical sessions and attendance of the final course examination. You are also expected to: 1. Be versatile in basic computer skills 2. Participate in all laboratory practical up to 90% of the time 3. Submit personal reports from laboratory practical sessions on schedule 4. Log in to the class online discussion board at least once a week and contribute to ongoing discussions. 5. Contribute actively to group seminar presentations. EQUIPMENT AND SOFTWARE NEEDED TO ACCESS COURSE MATERIAL You will be expected to have the following tools: 1. A computer (laptop or desktop or a tablet) 2. Internet access, preferably broadband rather than dial-up access 3. MS Office software – Word PROCESSOR, PowerPoint, Spreadsheet 4. Browser – Preferably Internet Explorer, Moxilla Firefox 5. Adobe Acrobat Reader