What do you do in Med_Surg

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN]

Like what are the focuses, I know it's not what I imagine just reading the title of it and I have heard it's a tough class and I know we have 3 semesters on it, so what kind of stuff do you learn in Med-Surg?

[cingle]

Disease process, signs/symptoms, the nursing diagnoses for patients with these diseases/disorders, appropriate nursing interventions, clinical/patient care skills...it's everything from what is blood pressure, how to take a blood pressure, what is a normal blood pressure range, how is high (or low) blood pressure treated medically, what nursing interventions are appropriate for a patient with this particular problem, etc.

It's a lot!

[Nepenthe Sea]

Its the same for us. Just three semesters of disorders of the different body systems and all that goes along with it. Then we have critical care, which I hear will be more complex cardiovascular and respiratory stuff. We don't have a separate pathophysiology class, so we just learn all that along with everything else. This is my first semester of med surg, and so far we have studied the nursing process, documentation, fluids and electrolytes, pain management, pre and post-op management, CRF, HTN, and venous disorders.

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN]

Thank you, so it seems like it's almost a mix of Pharm,Fundamentals and Pathophysiology all in one and then clinicals for it all?

[TheSquire, DNP, APRN, NP]

It is, kinda. It's more along the lines of taking the parts of those subjects that a floor nurse actually cares about, with the clinicals being the application of that knowledge, along with learning how to be a general floor nurse.

[GeneralJinjur]

You summed it up pretty well. I just finished first semester of Med Surg yesterday and I liked the class a lot.

[foreverLaur]

A Med/Surg floor is basically a big giant mixing bowl. I work on a med/surg floor and we literally see everything non-acute. We get all the post-ops, all the medical patients, and a lot of overflow, especially when the trauma floor gets full.

[9livesRN, BSN, RN]

see... it is different at some schools, i had basic and now am on advanced adult health,

basic we covered all systems/disorder/treatments/nursing dx/bla bla bla

then on advance we learn multi system problems/ which patient to care for first/ go deep into cardiac/resp/ abg/trach/ventilators/ tubes/ and it is basicaly like multiple things wrong at the same time,!!! coorelation of all you leaned on basic, than make it a bit deeper!

[melmarie23, MSN, RN]

Thank you, so it seems like it's almost a mix of Pharm,Fundamentals and Pathophysiology all in one and then clinicals for it all?

yes. thats Med/Surg in a nutshell!