NURSING 239AAdult/Gerontology Primary Health Care for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses I
Nursing · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
First in three-course series. Focus on assessment and diagnosis of common episodic and chronic adult health (late adolescence through end of life) conditions in ambulatory and urgent-care settings. Students evaluate application of evidence-based interventions and clinical guidelines in diverse adult populations across the lifespan. Examples include analysis of health promotion, and maintenance and restorative approaches from developmental, cultural, gender, functional impairment, and life-stage perspectives.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- 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 200, 231, 234B.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured dataRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
NURSING 239A
- NURSING 200Health Promotion and Assessment across Lifespan
- NURSING 175Physical Assessment for Advanced Practice
- NURSING 231Advanced Pathophysiology for Advanced Practice Nurses
- NURSING 234AAdvanced Pharmacology I
3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 4 courses over 2 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 239A
- NURSING 239BAdult/Gerontology Primary Health Care for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses II
- NURSING 239CAdult/Gerontology Primary Health Care for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses III
- NURSING 439CAdult/Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Practicum III
- NURSING 439DAdult/Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Practicum IV
- NURSING 439BAdult/Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Practicum II
- NURSING 239BAdult/Gerontology Primary Health Care for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses IIanother path to it
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 7 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.