NURSING 160Secondary Prevention
Nursing · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Screening and early detection of illness to prevent chronic or acutely deteriorating illness. Expanding on concepts of health and human development and using nursing process, application of nursing role in providing care to individuals and their families to screen, diagnose, and treat illness at earliest possible time to prevent disability or premature mortality. Examination of health problems of individuals within context of family, social and community systems, and interdisciplinary healthcare systems. Emphasis on differences in developmental stages in response to screening for early and late signs and symptoms of illness in ambulatory and acute care settings, community agencies, rehabilitation units, outpatient specialty clinics and surgical units, and home and community settings.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 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 150A, 150B, 152A, 152B.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
NURSING 160
- NURSING 150AFundamentals of Professional Nursing I
- NURSING 10Introduction to Nursing and Social Justice I
- NURSING 20Introduction to Nursing and Social Justice II
- NURSING 54APathophysiology I
- NURSING 3Human Physiology for Health-Care Providers
- NURSING 150BFundamentals of Professional Nursing II
- NURSING 152AHealth Promotion: Growth and Development in Culturally Diverse Populationsanother path to it
- NURSING 174Physical Assessment
- NURSING 13Introduction to Human Anatomy
- NURSING 152AHealth Promotion: Growth and Development in Culturally Diverse Populations
- NURSING 152BHealth Promotion: Nutrition in Culturally Diverse Populations
4 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 15 courses over 3 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 160
- NURSING 161Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
- NURSING 168Advanced Leadership and Role Integration
- NURSING 169Clinical Internship: Integration
- NURSING 171Public Health Nursing
- NURSING 164Maternity Nursing
- NURSING 165Pediatric Nursing
3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 12 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.