MS Nursing Course Outline
Topic: UNIFYING CONCEPTS BASIC TO ADVANCED NURSING PRACTICE
I. Health and Illness: The Human Experience
a. Definition of Terms
b. Health Illness and Disease
i. Precursors of Illness
1. Risk
2. Vulnerability
ii. Human Response to Illness
1. Stages of Illness
2. Adapting to illness
3. Different Behavioral Symptoms
4. Spiritual Response to Client
5. Factors Affecting Spiritual Care
II. Stress and Adaptation
a. The Mind-Body Interaction
b. Holistic theories of illness
i. Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome
ii. Mason’s Theory of Stress Response
iii. Harold Woff’s theory of stress
iv. Richard Lazarus concept of stress
c. Human body’s response to stress
d. Stress Management
III. Concept of inflammation and Immunity
a. Overview of the inflammatory process and Immune Response
b. Assessment of clients with inflammatory and immune disturbances
c. Laboratory and diagnostic procedure of clients with inflammatory and immune
disturbances
d. Medical – Surgical and nursing management of clients with:
i. Inflammatory Disturbances
ii. Immune Problems
1. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
2. Acquired immunodeficiency Virus (AIDS)
3. Hypersensitivity Reaction – Allergic Rhinitis
IV. Concept of Pain
a. Review Concepts of Pain
b. Assessment of Client experiencing Pain
c. Medical-Surgical and Nursing management of Pain
TOPIC: NURSING MANAGEMENT OF CLIENTS WITH ALTERATIONS IN REGULATION AND MAINTENANCE
OF ESSENTIAL LIFE PROCESSES
I. Disturbances in Gas Exchange
a. Review ana/physio of the Respiratory System
b. Guiding principles of oxygenation
c. Assessment of Client with Respiratory Disease
d. Diagnostic and Laboratory Procedures of client with Respiratory Disease
e. Med-Surg and Nursing Management of clients with:
i. Obstructive: COPD
ii. Infectious/inflammatory Empyema
Pleural Effusion
iii. Ischemic/Infarction Pulmonary Embolism
iv. Structural/Degenarative Chest Trauma
Cor Pulmonale
Respiratory Failure
II. Disturbances in Blood Pumping Mechanism
a. Review anaphysio of heart and Blood Vessels
b. Assessment of Client with Disease of the Cardiovascular System
c. Lab and Diagnostic procedures
d. Med-Surg and Nursing Management of clients with:
i. Conduction disturbances
ii. Ischemic Myocardial Infarction
Angina Pectoris
iii. Inflammatory: Endocarditis
Pericarditis
iv. Degenerative/Structural Mitral/Pulmonary Stenosis
Mitral regurgitation
III. Disorder of the Blood Carrying Mechanism
a. Review anaphysio of Blood and Blood Vessels
b. Lab and Diagnostic procedures
c. Med-Surg and Nursing Management of clients with blood disorders:
i. Anemia, Polycythemia
ii. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
d. Med-Surg and Nursing Management of clients with peripheral vascular disorders:
i. Ischemic/infarction Buerger’s Disease
Reynaud’s Disease
ii. Inflammatory Thrombophelbitis
iii. Structural Hypertension
Aneurysm
IV. Disorders of the Neural Conduction
a. Concepts of Fluid and Electrolytes
b. Fluid and Electrolyte Dynamics
i. Water distribution and Fluid Compartments
ii. Electrolytes
iii. Fluid and Electrolyte Movement
c. Assessment of clients with Fluid and Electrolytes Imbalances
d. Lab and Diagnostic procedures of clients with fluid and electrolyte, and Acid-Base
Imbalances.
e. Medical – Surgical and Nursing Management of client with:
i. Deficit or excess of essential body substances
1. Osmolar Imbalances
a. Hypo-osmolarity
b. Hyper-osmolarity
2. Isotonic Imbalances
a. Isotonic Volume Excess
b. Isotonic Venous Deficit
ii. Electrolyte imbalances
a. Hypo and hyper natremia
b. Hypo and hyper kalemia
c. Hypo and hyper calcemia
d. Hypo and hypermagnesemia
iii. Acid-Base imbalance
a. Respiratory Acidosis
b. Respiratory Alkalosis
c. Metabolic Acidosis
d. Metabolic Alkalosis
V. Disturbance in Genito-Urinary Funciton
a. Review of anatomy and physio of renal system
b. Assessment of clients with renal system
c. Lab and Diagnostic Procedures
d. Med-Surg and nursing management of clients with
i. Inflammatory Pyelo Nephritis
Prostatitis
UTI
Orchitis
Renal Calculi
Epididymitis
ii. Structural Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy
iii. Ischemic Acute Tubular necrosis
Renal Failure
