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Apr 19, 2024
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NURS 114 - Pathophysiology
3.0 Credits
Introduction to the human body’s physiologic responses to complex health disturbances in body systems and at a cellular level. Emphasis on application of scientific knowledge to the nursing process. Permit code required.
Prerequisite Admission to the program.
Corequisite NURS 115 and NURS 118.
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Define the basic concepts of pathophysiology.
- Differentiate between normal physiology and pathophysiologic processes.
- Identify and discuss risk factors, behaviors, and cultural predispositions that contribute to alterations in health.
- Describe the nurse’s role in disease prevention and health maintenance.
- Using correct medical terminology, identify and discuss risk factors, etiology, and elements of pathophysiology of: regulation and control, oxygenation and circulation, elimination and nutrition, protection and defenses.
- Differentiate between stable and unstable pathophysiologic states.
- Discuss the nurse’s role in communicating and documenting changes in client condition in common disease states.
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