NURSE-UN 1435 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: World Health Organization, Chronic Pancreatitis, Skin Cancer

• School: New York University
• Department: Nursing - Undergraduate
• Course: NURSE-UN 1435
• Professor: Day

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Develop a personal definition of health and disease. Looking at a wholeness of body, mind, and spirit. Define pathophysiology. (cid:894)(cid:862)(cid:374)ature(cid:863)(cid:895) stud(cid:455) of mechanical, physical and biochemical functions of living organisms: many things make up pathophysiology: etiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations of disease. Describe the significance of etiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, and clinical course in relating pathophysiology to the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Etiology study of the cause of disease or the reason it occurs: 1st step in the pathophysiology process, can be: Pathogenesis development or evolution of disease, from initial stimulus to ultimate expression of manifestations of disease: 2nd part of pathophysiology. If we can identify the risk factor we can help eliminate disease. Clinical manifestations when we actually have a visible appearance that someone has a disease: can be classified as symptoms or signs: Symptoms subjective feeling of abnormality in the body. Ca(cid:374)"t (cid:448)isi(cid:271)l(cid:455) see or hear a(cid:374)d the(cid:455) ha(cid:448)e to tell us (cid:894)heada(cid:272)he or tired for e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple(cid:895)