NURSING (ENGLISH) PROGRAMME COURSE DESCRIPTION
Name of the Course Unit	Code	Year	Semester	In-Class Hours (T+P)	Credit	ECTS Credit
BASIC PATHOLOGY	PAT202	2	4	3+0	3.0	4.0

Objectives and Contents
Objectives of the Course Unit	Understand the basic concepts of pathology. Understand the pathophysiological changes in different system disorders. Assist for various pathological tests conducted in the clinical field. Collect and send the pathological tests and infer their results with patient conditions.
Contents of the Course Unit	This course is an introduction to the science of Pathology. Basic Pathology concentrates on origins, pathogenesis and mechanisms of changes that occur in diseases and the consequences on the cellular and molecular levels and how these correlate clinically. This course covers the major pathological principles and mechanisms of human diseases that include cellular adaptations, cellular injury, inflammation, tissue repair, hemodynamic and circulatory disorders, infectious diseases, environmental and nutritional disorders and disorders of growth.
Contribution of the Course Intending to Provide the Professional Education	To build an understanding of the mechanisms of disease and the disease process. To enable the student to understand that the pathological process is simply a misapplication of the normal process and not a completely new development. To aid the student in understanding the multi-factorial nature of disease etiology. To enable the student to see how other basic science courses work together as a foundation for the science of pathology and to help the student pull that knowledge together.