Online Adult Health Course Content for Nurse Educators

UWorld’s Adult Health Nursing course delivers comprehensive, digital-first content tailored to the needs of LPN/LVN, ADN, BSN, and Accelerated BSN programs. Whether your program is traditional or fast-paced, our Med Surg curriculum supports faculty in teaching complex topics, including cardiovascular, endocrine, and renal care, with clarity, consistency, and confidence.
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Increase Engagement with Active Learning

Tired of static textbooks and overly long lectures? Our adult health course uses active learning strategies to make instruction more engaging and effective. With concise lecture videos, assignable NGN-style case studies, and targeted practice questions, students build critical clinical judgment while staying engaged.

Adult Health Lecture Videos

Simplify your lectures with short, engaging Med Surg videos that boost retention and engagement. Designed for today’s learners, these dynamic lessons make complex topics—like myocardial infarction, stroke, diabetic ketoacidosis, and acute kidney injury—easy to understand and apply across your adult health nursing curriculum.

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Adult Health Lecture Videos

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Assign, Present, & Poll

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Assign, Present, & Poll

Save time with pre-built assignments or create your own using our Adult Health/Med Surg question bank. Whether assigning lessons asynchronously or teaching live with interactive presentations and real-time polling, you’ll boost participation, reinforce key topics like shock, respiratory failure, and electrolyte imbalances, and support diverse learning styles with auto-graded questions.

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Reinforce & Remediate

Reinforce student understanding in Med Surg 1–3 with UWorld’s ready-made UGuides. These learning tools offer clear, illustrated summaries and assignable knowledge-check questions—ideal for students struggling with cardiovascular, renal, neuro, and other key adult health topics.

Sample UGuide

Reinforce & Remediate

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Faculty Tools to Support Adult Health Instruction

Streamline your teaching workflow with resources built specifically for nursing faculty. Evaluate student performance and stay organized throughout the term.

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  • Evaluate comprehension through a comprehensive, end-of-course final exam.
  • Support instruction with ready-to-use slides, instructor notes, and teaching tools.
  • Monitor student progress with the gradebook and customizable reports.

Adult Health Course Topics

This course spans the full Med Surg 1, 2, and 3 curriculum, providing comprehensive coverage of high-impact content areas essential to nursing education. Below is a representative overview of the topics included, each mapped to professional standards and AACN Essentials. Additional system-based conditions, patient populations, and clinical considerations are included throughout the course to ensure faculty can deliver a well-rounded, practice-ready adult health curriculum.

  • Cardiovascular: heart failure, MI, CABG, arrhythmias
  • Respiratory: COPD, PE, pneumonia, ARDS
  • Renal: CKD, AKI, dialysis
  • Endocrine: diabetes, Cushing's, SIADH
  • Neurologic: stroke, seizures, meningitis
  • GI & Hepatic: cirrhosis, pancreatitis, bowel obstruction
  • Emergency & Triage: shock types, disaster nursing, DIC
  • Clinical judgment practice through NGN-style case studies

Who Should Use This Course

This is the ideal adult health nursing teaching platform for faculty developing or revising Med Surg 1–3 syllabi and programs seeking scalable digital resources for traditional and accelerated pathways. Whether you’re looking for a more effective way to teach Med Surg nursing or to improve student retention and clinical reasoning, UWorld provides the tools and flexibility to meet your goals.

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Your Partner Every Step of the Way

Spend more time teaching and less time troubleshooting. Our dedicated team will be with you every step of the way to provide personalized product training and implementation support.

Initial Training

Virtual or on-demand training options are available to set you up for success.

Ongoing Support

Get dedicated help throughout the term to ensure a successful implementation.

Resource Center

Access on-demand training and support resources anytime, anywhere.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

UWorld’s Med Surg course is an online alternative to traditional nursing textbooks, built for today’s active learning classrooms. All content is date-stamped and regularly updated to ensure accuracy. Unlike static textbooks, our digital course allows students and faculty to work with the latest medical-surgical nursing information, improving trust, retention, and clinical judgment skills.
Yes. UWorld’s Adult Health course provides a complete digital curriculum for Med Surg 1–3, aligned with national standards and ideal for ADN, BSN, and accelerated BSN programs. Faculty can build or revise syllabi using our ready-to-assign videos, practice questions, NGN case studies, and auto-graded assessments.
Yes. Pathophysiology is integrated into every topic throughout UWorld’s Adult Health course. Each lesson connects clinical content with the underlying disease mechanisms, so whether you’re covering heart failure, diabetic ketoacidosis, or acute kidney injury, students gain a clear understanding of the “why” behind the condition. This integrated approach helps build clinical judgment, reinforce critical thinking, and support NCLEX readiness.
Yes. UWorld’s digital Adult Health course can replace traditional Med Surg textbooks. Our platform delivers concise, instructor-ready video lectures, NGN-style practice questions, and detailed rationales aligned with student learning objectives—making it a powerful alternative to outdated or static course materials.
Yes. UWorld’s flexible online Med Surg course supports both traditional and accelerated BSN program structures. Faculty can easily adapt lessons, assignments, and assessments to match semester-based or fast-track formats.
Yes. Our medical-surgical course content includes NGN case studies to help students apply theoretical knowledge to real-world scenarios.
Yes. UWorld’s Adult Health course content fully aligns with the AACN Essentials, including featured domains and key concepts. Educators can filter by AACN domains when creating assignments and generate reports mapped to those domains, making it easier to ensure curriculum alignment and assess outcomes. The course also integrates active learning strategies, a core principle emphasized in the new Essentials for delivering effective, competency-based nursing education. Contact Us to view a sample AACN Essentials mapping guide for our Adult Health course.
Faculty have access to assignable practice questions, customizable PowerPoints, instructor notes, and presentation-ready content tailored for teaching Med Surg 1–3 in ADN, BSN, or accelerated programs.
Yes. UWorld offers dedicated support for faculty throughout the term, including help with assignment setup, grading tools, and technical troubleshooting. Students and instructors can also access a “Resource Center” within the application that offers training videos, updates, and FAQs about using the product.
Yes. Educators can request a demo to view sample video lessons, case studies, and instructor tools. This allows you to evaluate how UWorld fits into your program’s goals and teaching model.
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