help a student nurse out? :)

Medical Surgical at my school is called just called Foundations of Nursing II. But it is commonly known as Med Surge. We are on a medical surgical floor of the hospital and that is the title of our book.

MD stands for medical doctor.

We cover the med-surg floor in Adult Health. Its the department where you get a full plate of all the nursing skills they train you for. You can liken it to the trenches, salt-mines, whatever, its not glamorous or high tech sexy, but you hone your craft there as well as your time management skills.

And BTW, google is your friend, just enter MD into a google box and you will find your answer.

fair enough to bob N VA never even crossed my mind to google it......one of those moments where the question popped into my head and I just thought I'd ask :) ah see I thought med surg was an actual class we took. Yups I've worked on the med/surg wards on clinicals, I loved it! I was just confused for a second because I thought it was actually like A&P or something! Having one of those days I guess! thanks guys!

In my school they call the med-surg class "Alterations in Adult Health". There is a lecture part and lab part to it and it's all we take next semester. Our clinicals are on the medical-surgical floor of the hospital.

Hello :) I'm curious about what kind of procedures student nurses do in med-surgical clinicals? Thank you if anyone replies

Hello :) I'm curious about what kind of procedures student nurses do in med-surgical clinicals? Thank you if anyone replies

I was on both a medical ward and a surgical ward. I got to see bandages being changed and wound care, clips being removed, both subcut and IM injections, catheterisation of both male and female and I also (by luck) got to see how a renal biopsy was done which was REALLY COOL!!! Apart from that just general patient care, vitals, cannula removal and documenting! Most of the time it was lots of fun! :)

Looking over my list of ADN classes, I am thinking our Med Surge class is called Nursing Agency I which takes place in the second semester and Nursing Agency II which takes place in the third semester.

i think our med-surg is called Care of the Adult Client or 'Level 2'. Not sure what they do yet.. i think it's a lot of Patho and clinicals in a surgical or post-surg unit. I'm starting in two weeks.

Tara ann,

Think of med surg as being a catch all for the bulk of adult patients in the hospital. This is where people go that don't belong in a speciality area such as the ER, ICU, NICU, peds, etc. You will see many general nursing procedures in med surg. Stuff like foley caths, IVs, injections, SCDs, insulin and many other meds.

At my school:

med surg 1 aka common health problems

med surg 2 aka uncommon health problems

med surg 3 aka preceptership aka another offical name that I can't remember right now

We have MedSurg I & II as our classes. I haven't taken MSII yet, but in MSI, it was focused on disease processes by body system, and what tests, lab values, etc should be monitored or could indicate the presence of a particular problem.

As far as clinicals, I did everything from wound changes, to NG tubes, trach care, IVs, and normal pt cares (accuchecks, vital monitoring, insulin injections, other meds, changing bags, etc).

Hope this helps!

jennifer-clare