NU 608 - Advanced Pathophysiology

• Assignments: Varied throughout the term
• Interactivity: Discussion Boards
• Final Assessment: None

• Uses ethical principles when providing health teaching regarding disease processes from a physiological standpoint.
• Integrate concepts of pathophysiology to clinical reasoning as a nurse leader in order to provide health teaching, health promotion, disease prevention & management.
• Identify the etiological factors that contribute to specific alterations in health status of clients across the life span.
• Synthesize and apply evidence based guidelines and research findings to manage and/or teach about major health problems with a caring respectful approach.
• Differentiate between normal & abnormal compensatory mechanisms as the body responds to disease.
• Use knowledge of environmental factors that influence genetically linked diseases.
• Describe the etiology, developmental considerations, pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of major health problems.
• Correlate and analyze select diagnostic and laboratory findings from a physiological/pathophysiological perspective.