NURS 188 — Pathophysiology
In this course, students will gain a foundational understanding of medical terminology, emphasizing prefixes, suffixes, and root words and how they are combined in medical terms while stressing spelling, definitions, usage, and pronunciation. This course builds on basic principles and is designed to develop an under- standing of the terms related to anatomical systems, reviewing both structure and function. This course sets a foundation for the health care worker of general pathology and review of each body system to include disease, etiology, pathogenesis, and pathology. Students will be introduced to disorders that can occur in major body systems along with signs, symptoms, and associated pharmacology.