Content Goals:
1. Explain the nursing knowledge necessary for care that addresses the bowel elimination needs of adult med-surg patients.
2. Describe assessment techniques to identify factors that affect bowel elimination in adult med-surg patients.
3. Explain how to use the nursing process as a clinical decision-making strategy for providing care that addresses the bowel elimination needs of adult med-surg patients.
4. Describe and prioritize caring nursing interventions that address the bowel elimination needs of adult med-surg patients.
5. Describe medications that pertain to the bowel elimination needs of an adult patient
6. Describe prevention strategies that address the bowel elimination needs of adult med-surg patients.
7. Practice communication techniques, including information technologies that address the bowel elimination needs of an adult med-surg patient.
8. Identify teaching strategies for health instruction that address the bowel elimination needs of adult med-surg patients.
9. Identify professional nursing behaviors in the clinical setting applicable to the care of adult med-surg patients with bowel elimination needs.
Meets Course Outcomes: 1 - 8