NURSING 161Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
Nursing · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Knowledge development and skill assessment to promote mental health of individuals. Exploration of research underlying assessment, diagnosis, and pharmacotherapeutic and psychological treatment of individuals with psychiatric disorders. Application of theory in clinical interpretation of assessment and diagnostic data for purpose of planning, implementing, and evaluating course of care for patients.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
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 160, 162B.
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 161
- NURSING 160Secondary Prevention
- NURSING 150AFundamentals of Professional Nursing I
- NURSING 10Introduction to Nursing and Social Justice I
- NURSING 20Introduction to Nursing and Social Justice II
- NURSING 150BFundamentals of Professional Nursing II
- NURSING 152AHealth Promotion: Growth and Development in Culturally Diverse Populationsanother path to it
- NURSING 152AHealth Promotion: Growth and Development in Culturally Diverse Populations
- NURSING 152BHealth Promotion: Nutrition in Culturally Diverse Populations
- NURSING 162BTertiary Prevention and Care of Medical-Surgical Patients and Families
- NURSING 162AFoundational Concepts for Tertiary Prevention and Care of Medical-Surgical Patients and Families
- NURSING 54BPathophysiology II
- NURSING 115Pharmacology and Therapeutics
2 direct requisites. Showing 19 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
NURSING 161
- NURSING 168Advanced Leadership and Role Integration
- NURSING 169Clinical Internship: Integration
- NURSING 171Public Health Nursing
3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.