NURSING 204Research Design and Critique
Nursing · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Lecture, 90 minutes; discussion, 90 minutes. Complex research designs and analysis of multiple variables and research utilization. Emphasis on techniques for control of variables, data analysis, and interpretation of results. Focus on in-depth analysis of interrelationship of theoretical frameworks, design, sample selection, data collection instruments, and data analysis techniques. Content discussed in terms of clinical nursing research problems and application to clinical settings.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- 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
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
NURSING 204
- NURSING 462Maternity Nursing
- NURSING 467Clinical Internship: Integration
- NURSING 464Pediatric Nursing
- NURSING 465CTertiary Prevention and Care of Complex Medical-Surgical Patients and Families
3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 6 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.