Certificate Programs
Post-Graduate Certificate Program in Nursing Education
The Graduate Certificate in Nursing Education is a non-degree certificate program designed to provide graduate-prepared nurses with preparation for the academic nurse educator role.
The coursework includes preparation for the National League for Nursing’s Certified Nurse Educator Exam (CNE®). To achieve the Certificate, students need to complete all 12 credits. The courses are designed to stand alone, making it possible for any graduate-prepared nurse or graduate nursing student to complete one or more courses.
The courses are delivered in an asynchronous online format, except for 838D (3cr): Becoming a Nurse Educator: Skills and Strategies Teaching Fellowship. This course includes 135 hours of field experiences, delivered over a full semester, whereas the other coursework is delivered over 8-week sessions. The teaching fellowship course (838D) runs the full semester to allow students to engage in field experiences typically offered at various times throughout a full academic semester (e.g., curriculum committee meetings, faculty meetings, teaching all or portions of courses, etc.).
Certificate Coursework
Fall Semester - Take All
Spring Semester - Take All
| NURS 837D |
Assessment, Evaluation, and Testing in Nursing Education |
3
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| NURS 838D |
Becoming a Nurse Educator: Skills and Strategies Fellowship |
3
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| Total Credit Hours: |
6 |
Postgraduate Certificate Nurse Practitioner School of Nursing Options
The Conway School of Nursing's Postgraduate Certificate Nurse Practitioner options are nationally accredited by CCNE and offered in all population-specific areas. They allow nurses with a graduate degree to complete additional coursework and clinical experiences necessary to be eligible for population-specific nurse practitioner national certification exams. These postgraduate certificate programs meet the most recent nurse practitioner program and curricular guidelines endorsed by NTF, AACN, NONPF, and AFPNP.
Program plans are designed based on a gap analysis conducted for each student. The plans vary in length based upon the student's past academic and clinical portfolio and the most recent requirements of the nurse practitioner population. Recipients receive a Postgraduate Certificate from the Conway School of Nursing, and their University transcript documents completion of all certificate requirements. Students in a School of Nursing Postgraduate Certificate Option are bound by all the policies and regulations for students in the BSN to DNP nurse practitioner degree. program, including those for admission, progression, graduation, and clinical practice.
The following Postgraduate Nurse Practitioner Certificate programs are offered: Postgraduate Certificate for Family Nurse Practitioner; Postgraduate Certificate for Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner; Postgraduate Certificate for Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner; Postgraduate Certificate for Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner; and Postgraduate Certificate for Primary and Acute Care (Dual) Pediatric Nurse Practitioner.