Many years ago a majority of hospital nurses worked on wards, and everyone was a medical-surgical nurse. Today licensed medical-surgical nurses work in a variety of positions, inpatient clinics, emergency departments, administration, outpatient surgical centers, home health care, humanitarian relief work, ambulatory surgical care, and skilled nursing homes. Some military medical-surgical nurses serve on battlefields.

Objectives

• Describe the core competencies for students: patient-centered care, interdisciplinary teams, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics.
• Apply the attitudes, mental habits, and skills necessary for critical thinking when using the nursing process in client care.
• Explain the importance of nursing codes and standards as guidelines for clinical nursing practice.
• Explain the activities and characteristics of the nurse as caregiver, educator, advocate, leader and manager, and researcher.
• Demonstrate critical thinking when using the nursing process to provide knowledgeable, safe client care.

Functions and Activities

1. Impart teaching learning activities; carry on research activities, dedicated patient care and community services.
2. Undertakes the Teaching Learning activities to the bachelor courses of Nursing in addition its nursing sub-speciality of M.Sc. students.
3. The postgraduate course comprises of Ward postings, Clinical classes, seminars and clinical presentations.
4. Impart teaching learning activities; carry on research activities, dedicated patient care and community services.
5. Patient care and community services are also carried on along with the Research activities.