NURSING 462Maternity Nursing
Nursing · 5 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Pathophysiological and psychosocial aspects of assessment and management for selected acute and emergent problems of maternity-newborn patients, with emphasis on social, cultural, and developmental influences and integration of basic knowledge of pathophysiology, diagnostics, pharmacology, therapeutic interventions, and communication concepts as applied to care of childbearing families. Application of theory, nursing process, evidence-based practice, and problem solving in clinical setting, interpretation of assessment and diagnostic data for purpose of planning, implementing, and evaluating care for maternity and newborn patients, both as individuals and cohorts. Assessment, health maintenance, and management of symptomatology among childbearing women and newborns.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 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 204, 260, 465A, 465B.
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confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
NURSING 462
- NURSING 204Research Design and Critique
- NURSING 260Secondary Prevention
- 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 250Ethical Issues, Social Justice, and History of Nursing
- 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
4 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 13 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 462
- NURSING 467Clinical Internship: Integration
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.