NURSING 408Interprofessional Collaboration for Improving Patient and Population Health
Nursing · 3 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Designed to acquaint DNP students with contemporary issues in health-care professions and expose students to interprofessional collaborative practice concepts and competencies. Discussion and debating of issues related to barriers and facilitators to achieving model collaborative practice. Analysis of innovative opportunities to improve current practice. Students critically reflect on their own beliefs about interprofessional collaborative practice, and identify how these beliefs may impact collaboration and team performance. Addresses relationships between interprofessional education, practice, and health-care outcomes and processes to prepare DNP graduates to assume leadership roles on interprofessional teams focused on patient and population health.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2026
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 408
- NURSING 470ADNP Scholarly Project Course I: Project Conceptualization and Planning
- NURSING 470BDNP Scholarly Project Course II: Project Proposal
- NURSING 470CDNP Scholarly Project Course III: Project Implementation
- NURSING 470DDNP Scholarly Project Course IV: Project Evaluation
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 7 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.