NS 5411 - Integrative Health Sciences II

Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Permission of instructor required. Enrollment limited to: students in the DNS post-baccalaureate program.

V. Utermohlen, J. Swanson.

Second semester of course sequence; NS 5410 Integrative Health Sciences I.

Outcome 1: Develop perceptiveness and cognitive recognition of patients’ signs and symptoms in order to differentiate critical from non-critical states.

Outcome 2: Understand the relationship between the structure and function of various organ systems.

Outcome 3: Be able to connect patients’ signs and symptoms with pathophysiological deviations from the normal state.

Outcome 4: Improve your critical thinking skills necessary to evaluate, differentiate, and explain normal physiological/anatomical states from the abnormal.

Outcome 5: Develop effective oral and written communication skills that will enable you to be persuasive by employing logic, scientific evidence, and compassion.