What is Med/Surge?

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I'm assuming that all future classes will build off of Fundamentals, but is there something more specific with med/surge?

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.

Med/Surg deals with a lot of the Pathophysiology of the diseases and how your nursing care incorporates into that. At least that is how I have seen it.

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Med/surg = fluids and electrolytes.

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Thanks for the info. We just finished our classes for the quarter and we already have reading to do before the first day of class and a lot of it is fluids and electrolytes. Geesh--and I thought we were on holiday.

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Med/surg:

The "weeding out" class.

The class where people's true narrow minded, greedy personalities shine through.

If you raise the rate of complaining that you had to endure in Fundamentals to the 15th power, there's your Med/Surg class.

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Med/surg:

The "weeding out" class.

The class where people's true narrow minded, greedy personalities shine through.

If you raise the rate of complaining that you had to endure in Fundamentals to the 15th power, there's your Med/Surg class.

Can you elaborate more about "true narrow minded, greedy personalities"? Thanks.

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
Can you elaborate more about "true narrow minded, greedy personalities"? Thanks.

Some people seem to hold on to a lot of bitterness if you read a lot of their previous posts on this board, I wouldn't focus on them ;) Fluids and Electrolytes had it's place in my Med/Surg classes but it wasn't majority or even half of the material we have gone over. I have so far completed Med/Surg and I take my Final for advanced med/surg class on monday. We have one more advanced class after that. Diabetes and Cardiac have been pretty big with it. But we go over all the systems pretty well. We did lose I think 6 people our first Med Surg class. (we started with 49 students and lost about 8 First semester before med surg. I won't know how many we have lost for our advanced class until after winter break but I haven't seen anyone freaking out that they are borderline. I know I need a 64% on the final to pass which is completely doable but it's always nerve wracking none the less.

We have lost one so far this med/surg class but it wasn't grade related.

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Specializes in being a Credible Source.

If you care, "surge" means to move in a billowing manner... "surg" is the shortened form of surgical... If you care not, please ignore the foregoing.

Med/surg is simply a class which examines the various diseases, injuries, treatments, and interventions which are encountered in the acute-care wards of the hospitals.

It is something of an amalgamation of other subjects (i.e. patho, pharm, and fundamentals) along the introduction of new material pertaining to nursing care of patients with specific disorders.

Some people find it more challenging since it's more of a problem-solving class and it's an incredibly broad field.

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my med/surg classes focused on specific body systems and the diseases that affect them. We went through 4 different med/surg classes each one consisted of a few different systems ie. Cardiac, neuro, respiratory, musculoskeletal and so forth. Its more a narrow focus of the diseases of each body system and pathophysiology of them and how as a nurse to treat and teach patients. good luck!

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Med/surg:

The "weeding out" class.

The class where people's true narrow minded, greedy personalities shine through.

If you raise the rate of complaining that you had to endure in Fundamentals to the 15th power, there's your Med/Surg class.

Hmm....I'd have to say that out of my classmates, the percentage that failed Fundamentals is a lot higher than the percentage that failed Med/Surg.

Personally, I thought that Fundamentals was extremely boring, but Med/Surg was really interesting.

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From what everyone has said so far, it is more system focused, more interesting than fundamentals, and it could be a "weeding out" class. Sounds scary and fun. Thanks.

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Specializes in Emergency; med-surg; mat-child.

I know our M/S book is scary/fun (Lewis, Heitkemmper, et al). We read a bit for fundamentals but the meat of it will be for med/surg

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