PATHOPHYSIOLOGY ESSENTIALS FOR NURSING PRACTICE
Promotes the understanding of altered physiological processes underlying illness and disease. General concepts including etiology, pathogenesis, morphologic changes, and clinical significance are explored from the genetic, molecular, cellular, organ, and systems-levels. Connections between patient symptoms, clinical signs, diagnostics, prognosis, and therapeutic considerations will form the basis for early exposure to clinical reasoning for common acute and chronic diseases across the lifespan.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Declared in Nursing (Accelerated or Traditional program) BSN Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Define and apply a vocabulary of medical terms that are important to the language of health and illness. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Explain the etiology, pathogenesis, morphology, and clinical significance of selected diseases/ disorders by system across the lifespan. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Develop a foundation of clinical reasoning for illness and disease management by integrating pathophysiology concepts, physical examination findings and pharmacology principles across the lifespan. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Identify individual choices and environmental exposures that influence disease. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Define and apply a vocabulary of medical terms that are important to the language of health and illness. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Explain the etiology, pathogenesis, morphology, and clinical significance of selected diseases/ disorders by system across the lifespan. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Develop a foundation of clinical reasoning for illness and disease management by integrating pathophysiology concepts, physical examination findings and pharmacology principles across the lifespan. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Identify individual choices and environmental exposures that influence disease. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027