NUR4286: two different subjects share this number

Course Description

⚠⚠⚠ This course number carries two different subjects in Florida, and this page exists to point you at the right one.

The statewide SCNS inventory records NUR4286 as "Gerontological Nursing". The University of West Florida publishes NUR4286 as "Concepts of Quality and Safety in Nursing". These are different subjects, not different names for the same material.

Which guide do you need?

• NUR4286-SCNS — Gerontological Nursing. The subject as the statewide catalog defines it. Use this if your institution teaches Gerontological Nursing under this number, or if a degree requirement names that subject.
• NUR4286-UWF — Concepts of Quality and Safety in Nursing. The subject as the University of West Florida actually teaches it under this number.

Special Information

⚠⚠ Why one number carries two subjects

• SCNS assigns each number a statewide title, and institutions file their own courses against the closest available number. When a local course has no good match, the number it lands on can end up describing something else entirely.
• ⚠ The statewide inventory lists UWF among the institutions offering this number, alongside FAMU, FIU, Keiser, Lake-Sumter State, State College of Florida, UCF and Valencia — so the inventory itself does not reveal the divergence.
• ⚠⚠ A transfer evaluator matching on the course number alone cannot tell the two apart. Carry a syllabus, and do not assume this number satisfies a requirement named by either title without checking which version you took.
• This is the same pressure that makes a course suffix a filing decision rather than a description of content — a limited set of statewide codes absorbing genuinely varied provision.

How Florida course levels affect transfer

The first digit of an SCNS number denotes the year of offering, not transferability. Courses at the 1000 and 2000 levels transfer transparently between Florida public institutions, and 3000 to 4000 is unproblematic since both are upper division. ⚠ For a number carrying two subjects, the level is the least of the transfer questions — establish which subject you took first.

NUR4286 is published at 3 semester hours at the University of West Florida under the title "Concepts of Quality and Safety in Nursing".