NURSING 445Advanced Practice Registered Nursing: Clinical Nurse Specialist Practicum
Nursing · 2 to 10 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Practicum/residency where students gain skills and competencies to function collaboratively and autonomously to achieve high quality patient outcomes. Clinical nurse specialty (CNS) practice achieves this by working within three spheres of influence: patient/family, nursing personnel, and organizational systems utilizing multidisciplinary approach through application and integration of theory, research, and clinical knowledge. 17 units complete minimum of 500 unique CNS hours required for professional certification.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2026
- Spring 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 220, 245.
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 445
- NURSING 220Theories of Instruction and Learning in Nursing
- NURSING 245Theoretical Foundations of Clinical Nurse Specialist Practice
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
NURSING 445
- 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.