Course Objectives:

• Describe the expected outcomes in behavioral terms that are attainable, measurable, and relevant to current nursing practice.

• After Completing this unit, the student will be able to match terms associated with concepts of health/illness and medical-surgical care to their correct definitions.

• Select ways in which high-level wellness can be promoted.

• List human response to illness, and match characteristics of illness to their correct stages.

• Describe nursing interventions to help patients adapt to illness.

• Match common examples of diseases and disorders to their classifications.

• Select true statements about fluid electrolyte balance.

• Distinguish between fluid deficit and fluid volume excess.

• Discuss factors that affect maintenance.

• List the nursing care and responsibilities for medical surgical, obstetrical, pediatric, geriatric, acute and long term care patients to step in the nursing process.

• Match nursing responsibility for maternity patients.