Nursing Continuing Education - RN Refresher - Azusa Pacific University

Continuing Education Programs

The Continuing Education Department for the School of Nursing focuses on the development and provision of programs that are responsive to the needs of health care providers (both individual and organizational) in our surrounding community. Major emphasis is placed on providing programs that address the changing health care environment, the shift to alternative settings, and emerging provider roles. Courses are available for alumni and nurses in the community.

Programs

These programs are offered on a regular basis:

School Nurse Audiometry This is an intensive online course approved by the hearing conservation specialist of the State Department of Health Services. It meets the requirements for the School Audiometrist Certificate issued by the State of California. Contact hours and fees: 50 contact hours; the cost for the entire course is $865 for CE credit only. The cost for graduate academic credit (3 units) is $490 per unit plus an application fee of $45 and a $120 online fee totaling $1,635. Cost includes course materials, refreshments for breaks, and lunch on clinical day. Dates: Online with one clinical day in June or July
RN Refresher This course is designed to prepare nurses who have been away from the nursing workforce for entry-level positions by providing the opportunity to perform and practice fundamental nursing procedures in a skills lab, to work with RN preceptors in medical-surgical nursing units to enhance knowledge and upgrade competency in clinical skills, and to orient nurses to the acute facility. Participants must have a current, unencumbered California RN license, malpractice insurance, background check, current CPR card, a negative PPD or chest X-ray, and have completed two phases of the three-part hepatitis B vaccination or submitted a waiver. Contact hours and fees: 28 contact hours for lecture, 18 contact hours for clinical, $1,100 Dates: January, April, July, September (effective 2010)

School Nurse Audiometry

This is an intensive online course approved by the hearing conservation specialist of the State Department of Health Services. It meets the requirements for the School Audiometrist Certificate issued by the State of California.

Contact hours and fees: 50 contact hours; the cost for the entire course is $865 for CE credit only. The cost for graduate academic credit (3 units) is $490 per unit plus an application fee of $45 and a $120 online fee totaling $1,635. Cost includes course materials, refreshments for breaks, and lunch on clinical day.

Dates: Online with one clinical day in June or July

RN Refresher

This course is designed to prepare nurses who have been away from the nursing workforce for entry-level positions by providing the opportunity to perform and practice fundamental nursing procedures in a skills lab, to work with RN preceptors in medical-surgical nursing units to enhance knowledge and upgrade competency in clinical skills, and to orient nurses to the acute facility. Participants must have a current, unencumbered California RN license, malpractice insurance, background check, current CPR card, a negative PPD or chest X-ray, and have completed two phases of the three-part hepatitis B vaccination or submitted a waiver.

Contact hours and fees: 28 contact hours for lecture, 18 contact hours for clinical, $1,100

Dates: January, April, July, September (effective 2010)

For more information on our current courses, to suggest topics for courses you would like to see offered in the future, or to be added to our mailing list, please contact:

Marilyn Klakovich Director of Continuing Education (626) 815-5406 mklakovich@apu.edu	Cathy DeSurra Administrative Assistant (626) 815-6000, Ext. 5588 cdesurra@apu.edu

Note: This information is current for the 2011–12 academic year; however, all stated academic information is subject to change. Please refer to the current Academic Catalog for more information. For additional information, please contact the appropriate office.