Spring 2027

Pathophysiology Essentials for Nursing Practice

This course teaches how altered physiological processes underlie illness and builds early clinical reasoning for managing common acute and chronic diseases across the lifespan.

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Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.68 GPA, 88.0% A/AB (n=158 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.54 GPA, 83.1% A/AB (n=160 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.54 GPA, 81.5% A/AB (n=157 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Define and apply a vocabulary of medical terms that are important to the language of health and illness.

  • Explain the etiology, pathogenesis, morphology, and clinical significance of selected diseases/ disorders by system across the lifespan.

  • Develop a foundation of clinical reasoning for illness and disease management by integrating pathophysiology concepts, physical examination findings and pharmacology principles across the lifespan.

  • Identify individual choices and environmental exposures that influence disease.

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Nursing (Accelerated or Traditional program) BSN

  • Declared in Nursing (Accelerated or Traditional program) BSN
NURSING 318

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  • Declared in Nursing (Accelerated or Traditional program) BSN

Professors

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.68 GPA, 88.0% A/AB (n=158 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.54 GPA, 83.1% A/AB (n=160 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.54 GPA, 81.5% A/AB (n=157 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Etiology, pathogenesis, morphologic changes, and clinical significance at genetic, molecular, cellular, organ, and systems-levels
  • Patient symptoms, clinical signs, diagnostics, prognosis, and therapeutic considerations for acute and chronic diseases across the lifespan
  • Selected diseases and disorders by system across the lifespan

Skills

  • Define and apply a vocabulary of medical terms that are important to the language of health and illness.
  • Develop a foundation of clinical reasoning for illness and disease management by integrating pathophysiology concepts, physical examination findings and pharmacology principles across the lifespan.
  • Identify individual choices and environmental exposures that influence disease.

Grades

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About this comparison

1316 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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