Academic Calendar 2025-26 
    
    May 04, 2025  
Academic Calendar 2025-26

NURS 281 - Medical, Surgical, & Specialty Nursing


Credits: 6 Total Hours: 168
Restricted to students in Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing
Learners translate and develop knowledge, skills, and dispositions to provide safe, ethical, and culturally appropriate nursing care in acute medical, surgical, and specialty settings. Learners focus on assessment, decision-making, person-centred care planning, prioritization, and evaluation in collaboration with patients, family, and other health care professionals. Learners provide holistic nursing care, across the continuum of care, including safe medication administration, health education, psychomotor skills, and therapeutic communication. Learners integrate nursing knowledge, ethics, pathophysiology, and pharmacology, and critique evidence for nursing practice. Learners advocate for vulnerable patients and families, utilizing family-centred care. 

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