NURSING 115Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Nursing · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Clinical pharmacology for undergraduate nursing students, beginning with emphasis on basic pharmacologic principles. Focus on major drug classes and their mechanism of action, pharmacokinetics, adverse effects, and clinical issues.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 54A, 54B.
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confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
NURSING 115
- NURSING 54APathophysiology I
- NURSING 3Human Physiology for Health-Care Providers
- NURSING 54BPathophysiology II
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 4 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
NURSING 115
- NURSING 162AFoundational Concepts for Tertiary Prevention and Care of Medical-Surgical Patients and Families
- NURSING 162BTertiary Prevention and Care of Medical-Surgical Patients and Families
- NURSING 161Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
- NURSING 162CTertiary Prevention and Care of Complex Medical-Surgical Patients and Families
- NURSING 165Pediatric Nursing
- NURSING 163Nursing Care of Geriatric Patients and Families
- NURSING 168Advanced Leadership and Role Integration
- NURSING 169Clinical Internship: Integration
- NURSING 171Public Health Nursing
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 9 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.