Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry for Nursing

CH 117 General, Organic & Biochemistry: An Overview at Sacred Heart University is a comprehensive course designed for nursing students, offering a robust foundation in chemistry and its vital applications to healthcare. You will begin with general chemistry, exploring matter classification into pure substances and mixtures, atomic structure, the periodic table, and chemical bonding, including ionic and covalent interactions. You will examine behaviors of gases, liquids, and solids through gas laws and intermolecular forces.

The course then delves into organic chemistry, where you will study structures, nomenclature, and reactions of organic compounds like alkanes, alongside functional groups and isomerism. The biochemistry segment introduces key biomolecules-carbohydrates, proteins, and nucleic acids-and their critical roles in biological systems. You will explore metabolism, including glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and ATP production, as well as enzyme function, genetic coding, mutations, and recombinant DNA technology.

Through hands-on learning and real-world applications, such as dietary lipids, cell membrane transport, and medical uses of radioisotopes, this course equips you with essential knowledge for nursing practice. By connecting chemical and biochemical principles to patient care, CH 117 prepares you to understand the molecular basis of health and disease in clinical healthcare settings. Although it may seem challenging in the beginning but the lectures provided here will help you have a good grasp on the contents as well as problem solving.