NURSING 269Quality Improvement and Population-Based Quality of Practice
Nursing · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Focus on principal elements related to quality improvement theories and ways in which quality management impacts the delivery of patient-centered and value-driven care. Discussion of concepts including improving system performance, efficient use of fiscal resources, quality improvement, and patient population quality practice at the organizational level. Review of methods to improve patient care outcomes, e.g., organizational support, effective teamwork, and quality improvement. Emphasis on quality management, patient safety, mitigating risk of adverse outcomes, evidence-based practice, cost-effective decision-making, resource management, and external impacts on quality control.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2026
- Fall 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 269
- NURSING 267Health Care Policy
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.