Sep 13, 2025  
2025-2026 Academic Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Academic Catalog
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NURS 256 - Pathophysiology


Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the nursing program.

 
Corequisite(s): NURS 222 , NURS 244 .
This course promotes the understanding of fundamental disease processes and disruptions of normal body functioning in individuals across the lifespan. A brief review of the relevant normal structure and function of each system precedes a description of the pathophysiologic mechanisms that underlie several common diseases in that system. Symptoms and signs of each disease provide a foundation for the student’s later mastery of nursing management of clients.

Formerly: NURS 233 and NURS 323.



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