NURSING 237BAssessment and Management in Pediatric Acute Care II
Nursing · 3 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Second course in two-course sequence for acute care pediatric nurse practitioner student. Focus on pathophysiology of specific disease processes, pharmacologic knowledge, clinical decision-making, and treatment modalities in managing complex acute, critical, and chronic health conditions in infants, children, and adolescents. Cultural sensitivity, child development, family support, ethical issues, and palliative care/end of life care integrated into select acute/chronic conditions. Lectures and other learning activities demonstrate application and evaluation of evidence-based research and clinical guidelines in pediatric population.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 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 238A, 238B, 237A, 437A. Corequisite: course 437B.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textBruinTree reads · Corequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
NURSING 237B
- NURSING 237AAssessment and Management in Pediatric Acute Care I
- NURSING 238AAssessment and Management in Pediatric Primary Care I
- NURSING 200Health Promotion and Assessment across Lifespan
- NURSING 175Physical Assessment for Advanced Practice
- NURSING 440PEAdvanced Assessment and Clinical Diagnosis Practicum: Pediatrics
- NURSING 238BAssessment and Management in Pediatric Chronic Care
- NURSING 438BPrimary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Clinical Practicum II
- NURSING 437AAcute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Clinical Practicum I
- NURSING 438APediatric Nurse Practitioner Clinical Practicum I
- NURSING 437BAcute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Clinical Practicum II
- NURSING 441Advanced Pediatric Diagnostics
5 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 25 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 237B
- NURSING 437BAcute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Clinical Practicum II
- NURSING 437CAcute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Clinical Practicum III
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 4 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.