NURSING 163Nursing Care of Geriatric Patients and Families
Nursing · 3 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Addresses prevention and management of acute and chronic health problems of older adults. Theory content emphasizes assessment, goal setting, treatment planning, and evaluation of nursing care of older adults and their families with emphasis on psychosocial, cultural, and developmental influences. Students integrate knowledge of pathophysiology, pharmacology, stress and adaptation, adult development theory, therapeutic interventions, and communication concepts as applied to care of older adult patients and their families. Emphasis on concept of nurse as nurse scientist with critical and contextual thinking skills and diagnostic reasoning. Nursing process, ethical principles, clinical research, evidenced-based practice, and clinical thinking that maximize patient safety and quality care for older adults are employed during clinical experiences.
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
Requisite: course 162A.
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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 163
- NURSING 162AFoundational Concepts for Tertiary Prevention and Care of Medical-Surgical Patients and Families
- NURSING 54APathophysiology I
- NURSING 3Human Physiology for Health-Care Providers
- NURSING 54BPathophysiology II
- NURSING 115Pharmacology and Therapeutics
- 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 Populations
- NURSING 152BHealth Promotion: Nutrition in Culturally Diverse Populations
1 direct requisite. Showing 17 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
NURSING 163
- 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.