NURSING 164Maternity Nursing
Nursing · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Nursing assessment and management for selected acute and emergent problems in maternity/newborn patients, with emphasis on social, cultural, and developmental influences. Integration of basic knowledge of pathophysiology, diagnostics, pharmacology, therapeutic interventions, and communication concepts as applied to childbearing families, with application of nursing process, evidenced-based practice, problem-solving strategies, and critical thinking. Supervised clinical practicum experience within setting of multidimensional team, with focus on application of theory in clinical interpretation of assessment and diagnostic data for purpose of planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care for maternity/newborn patients. Intermediate-level assessment, health maintenance, and management of symptoms in this population.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Summer 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, 160B.
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
NURSING 164
- 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
1 direct requisite. Showing 12 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 164
- 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.