NP 603 - Advanced Pathophysiology

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Integrate, at an advanced level with professional colleagues, the causes and relationships of various pathological states and their effects on the disease processs at a level of competency defined by the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) Domains and Core Competencies. 
• Justify, among colleagues and third-party reimbursement insurers, the necessity and appropriateness of various diagnostic tests and treatment options. 
• Recognize a patient’s clinical presentations of signs and symptoms and integrate pathophysiological concepts. 
• Understand and be able to articulate the pathogenesis of a patient’s disease. 
• Answer a patient’s questions regarding his/her disease process. 
• Assimilate data to make an appropriate judgment as to whether further diagnostic testing, consultation, or referral is needed based on a patient’s presentation. 
• Articulate the interrelationships and physiologic effects of patient comorbidities. 
• Apply evidence-based research about pathophysiology and pathogenesis of a disease to patient treatment. 
• Integrate the sequelae associated with various pathologies. 
• Reason through different human pathologies.