Content Goals:
1. Explain the knowledge necessary for preventing and controlling infection in adult med-surg patients.
2. Describe assessment techniques to identify adult med-surg patients at risk for developing an infection.
3. Explain how to use the nursing process as a clinical decision-making strategy to prevent and control infection in adult med-surg patients.
4. Describe and prioritize caring interventions used to break the chain of infection.
5. Describe prevention strategies for limiting the transfer of pathogens.
6. Practice communication techniques used to facilitate the prevention and control of infection in adult med-surg patients.
7. Identify teaching strategies used to facilitate the prevention and control of infection in adult med-surg patients.
8. Identify professional nursing behaviors in the clinical setting applicable to the care of adult med-surg patients with infections.
Meets Course Outcomes: 1 - 8