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NUR 5030 - Pathophysiology for Advanced Practice Nursing

(4 Credits)

This course focuses on advanced pathophysiological processes across the lifespan, incorporating clinical reasoning skills to distinguish alterations across multiple physiological systems. In approaching disease as disordered physiology, this course analyzes the mechanism(s) of producing symptoms and signs of different disease states. A primary focus is recognizing that advanced practice nursing includes understanding the mechanism(s) underlying the disease and clinical manifestations to devise rationale, evidenced-based therapies. Appropriate screening and diagnostic laboratory evaluation methods are part of the framework of this course.
Modality: Online, Sixty (60) academic hours.