Question

Write one page how was the class Medsurge?

Answer 1

Medical-surgical nursing is one of the first classes that nursing students' encounter where it requires them to apply everything they've learned in pharmacology, pathophysiology, and health assessment together.

This class deals with disease processes and how a nurse provides care to that specific patient.Med-Surg nursing is very hard. It is the foundation class for all nursing classes that follow. You will learn all of the body systems, how each system effects the others, nursing diagnosis for the diseases or dysfunctions of each system, and what is the range of normal for the human body. You will learn nursing care for the medical and surgical patient. It is hard because a lot of memorization is needed. You will have to apply all of those facts and treatments to patients.

In the program I was in we had med surg lecture and clinical experience every year. You need to have knowledge of all the body’s systems. Respiratory, cardiac, blood and lymph systems, just to name a few. It’s a lot of information!! Med surg is the backbone of any nursing career. You have to figure out how one system can effect other systems. For example a neurology surgery patient can get diabetes Insipidius. Or how poorly working kidneys affect blood pressure. What conditions might be a result of side effects of medication? Any “old nurse” (like me) would tell a nursing student to do 3–5 years of med surg nursing before entering a specialty like ICU, aNICU OR etc. why? Because everything you do will still go back to how one system affects another. Med surg gives you a lot of challenges. However, it is the BEST building block or foundation for your career!