NURSING 268Leadership in Health Care Systems
Nursing · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Discussion of use of systems theory in providing patient-centered value-added care. Health care practitioners learn to use critical thinking and decision making to coordinate and deliver quality, cost-effective patient care. Discussion of different modes of organizing nursing care within micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of health care systems; managing care within multidisciplinary team framework; and promoting effective teamwork that enhances patient outcomes, improves staff efficiency, and reduces costs. Emphasis on system theory, problem solving and decision making, nursing care delivery models, delegation, and team strategies in relation to clinical nurse leader. satisfies course requirement for CNL certification.
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 250, 465A, 465B.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
NURSING 268
- NURSING 250Ethical Issues, Social Justice, and History of Nursing
- NURSING 465AFoundational Concepts for Tertiary Prevention and Care of Medical-Surgical Patients and Families
- NURSING 230AAdvanced Pathophysiology I
- NURSING 3Human Physiology for Health-Care Providers
- NURSING 13Introduction to Human Anatomy
- NURSING 465BTertiary Prevention and Care of Medical-Surgical Patients and Families
- NURSING 225AAdvanced Pharmacology I
- NURSING 230BAdvanced Pathophysiology II
- NURSING 465AFoundational Concepts for Tertiary Prevention and Care of Medical-Surgical Patients and Familiesanother path to it
3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 12 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 268
- NURSING 267Health Care Policy
- NURSING 467Clinical Internship: Integration
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.