NURSING 440PEAdvanced Assessment and Clinical Diagnosis Practicum: Pediatrics
Nursing · 2 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Establishes practice foundations for advanced physical assessment and clinical diagnostic reasoning. Students conduct individualized and symptom-focused assessments of health concerns across diverse populations. Emphasis on comprehensive and integrated critical analysis of symptom and focused history data, physical examination findings, selected laboratory data, and clinical diagnoses.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 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 440PE
- NURSING 238AAssessment and Management in Pediatric Primary Care I
- NURSING 237AAssessment and Management in Pediatric Acute Care I
- NURSING 237BAssessment and Management in Pediatric Acute Care II
- NURSING 238BAssessment and Management in Pediatric Chronic Care
- NURSING 438BPrimary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Clinical Practicum II
- NURSING 438APediatric Nurse Practitioner Clinical Practicum I
- NURSING 264Professional Role Issues in Advanced Practice Registered Nursing
- NURSING 437AAcute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Clinical Practicum I
- NURSING 441Advanced Pediatric Diagnostics
- NURSING 437BAcute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Clinical Practicum II
- NURSING 437CAcute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Clinical Practicum III
4 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 28 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.