NURS113 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Unit, Nausea, Muscle
12 Oct 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
NURS113
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Midterm
Feb 15 25% (11-1220)
- L1 350 (unit 1-5)
Contact about asthma (or any content related stuff)
Michelle (TA)
- Lecture-based questions; if unsure about content and stuff
- Email ([email protected])
- eClass discussion section
Contact Barbara
- iClickers
- 5% is gotten from an iClicker
- Does not look for correctness; looks for participation
- Course-based questions
- Email ([email protected])
Online quiz → March 27 - April 2
Feb 13 - Pathophysiology of the GI system
Resources to use (lack of understanding)
Lecture slides
Textbook
Library
Discussion forum
TA
Office hours
Review the textbook
- Mostly class material on the exam
find more resources at oneclass.com
find more resources at oneclass.com
UNIT 1 - CORE CONCEPTS OF PATHO
Pathophysiology
- Need to know stuff so that we can learn how to make patients healthier
Pathology
- Study of the changes in cells, tissues, organs, all due to disease
- **use learning objectives to study for the exams**
Physiology
- The study of body function
Pathophysiology
- The study of the body’s response to dysfunction or disease
- The physiology of altered health
- Understanding when things do not work properly
Aspects of the disease process
- Etiology
- The causes or reasons for disease
- Different classes of causes
- Congenital
- Present before or at birth
- They were born with the certain cause of disease
- Eg: Heart defect
- Acquired
- They did not have it at birth but then they got it throughout their life
- So absent at birth
- Eg: diabetes
- Idiopathic
- The cause is unknown
- Theory is present but there is no reason to know why the cause came
- Eg: fibromyalgia
- Iatrogenic
- Cause where it results from unintended or unplanned medical treatment
or series of events
- Eg: infection
- They enter hospital with an infection that is iatrogenic; so like
nosocomial diseases
- Or wrong site surgery/wrong side surgery
- Risk factor
- Increases the risk and likelihood of the disease
- Eg: risk factor for heart disease → smoking
- Etiological factors
find more resources at oneclass.com
find more resources at oneclass.com
Document Summary
Contact about asthma (or any content related stuff) Lecture-based questions; if unsure about content and stuff. Does not look for correctness; looks for participation. Online quiz march 27 - april 2. Feb 13 - pathophysiology of the gi system. Need to know stuff so that we can learn how to make patients healthier. Study of the changes in cells, tissues, organs, all due to disease. **use learning objectives to study for the exams** The study of the body"s response to dysfunction or disease. Understanding when things do not work properly. They were born with the certain cause of disease. They did not have it at birth but then they got it throughout their life. Theory is present but there is no reason to know why the cause came. Cause where it results from unintended or unplanned medical treatment or series of events. They enter hospital with an infection that is iatrogenic; so like nosocomial diseases.
