<p>Lecture, four hours; laboratory, 90 minutes. Basic understanding of human physiological processes, with emphasis on applications to patient evaluation and care. Concepts underlying normal function and how alterations in these normal functions can affect body systems. Knowledge and understanding of these normal human processes is basic to providing quality nursing care. Examination of system variations across lifespan. Letter grading.</p>

Nursing

Joe C. Wen School of Nursing

General Education — Life Sciences with Lab Credit (Scientific Inquiry)

NURSING 3 - Human Physiology for Health-Care Providers

Human Physiology for Health-Care Providers

Apply the universal scientific laws of physics and chemistry in relationship to the living human organism through lectures, laboratory experiences, writing up experimental results, and discussion.

Draw inferences to physiologic conditions and pathologic states based on results derived from observational scientific experiments.

Develop a foundation for physical examination by synthesizing clinical observations with an underlying biological understanding of normal organ functioning.

Recognize the major functions of each organ system and what constitutes normal physiologic health.

Identify cellular processes in the major organ systems and characterize the interdependence between organ systems in relationship to these processes.

Demonstrate familiarity with the scientific method through characterization of clinical problems, hypothesis formulation, testing of physiologic results from experiments simulated in the laboratory, and drawing conclusions from the results.

Critically describe the underlying principles of cell biology in relationship to the major physiologic systems of the living human organism, and describe how these principles operate during nursing clinical evaluation and patient care.

General Catalog

Human Physiology for Health-Care Providers

NURSING 3

5 units