Pre-First Year Program in WRIT/NURSCI/LABS

Catalog description

This course uses an interdisciplinary approach to study diabetes mellitus. The basics of general, biological and nutritional chemistry as well as the physiology necessary for an understanding of the metabolic basis of diabetes mellitus will be covered. The course includes lectures, anatomy and nursing physical assessment laboratory activities, and application of knowledge via case study discussion. The course is designed to provide an introduction to the Nursing curriculum and related skills using the disease diabetes mellitus as its framework. In addition to classroom lectures, an introduction to physical assessment and nursing interventions for patients with diabetes, anatomy laboratory activities, and exposure to nursing research are provided. The course will stress active student learning.