Critical Care Nursing Certificate

Program: Certificate
Department of Nursing
School of Health Sciences

Neff Hall B50 ~ 260-481-6816 ~ www.ipfw.edu/hsc_nur

The primary objectives of this certificate are to provide:

advanced knowledge and skills in the specialty of critical-care nursing to registered nurses and student nurses about to enter the workforce.
the opportunity for nurses working in or intending to work in any acute-care area of nursing to increase skills and knowledge in critical care to meet the growing challenge of providing care to increasingly sick patients within the managed-healthcare environment.
ncreased marketability of graduates from this program in a market where critical-care skills are valued.

To earn the certificate, you must:

fulfill the requirements of IPFW (see Part 7).
be a licensed RN. (Students enrolled in second-year nursing courses in the IPFW nursing program may participate with permission of the certificate program coordinator.)
complete the following courses with a C or better:

Nursing Core (5 credits)

NUR 362 - Acute Care Nursing Credits: 4

NUR 245 - Basic Cardiac Dysrhythmias Cr. 1.
NUR 345 - Trauma Nursing Cr. 1.
NUR 399 - Special Topics Cr. 1-6.
Critical Care Clinical Credits: 1–2

Supporting Courses (7 credits)

NUR 334 - Clinical Pathophysiology Cr. 4.
PHIL 312 - Medical Ethics Cr. 3.

Approved Electives (3 credits)

(Credits in a course from nursing, SPEA, or the social sciences that better meets your goals may be substituted with the permission of the program coordinator)

One of the following Credits: 3

GERN G231 - Introduction to Gerontology Cr. 3.
NUR 309 - Transcultural Healthcare Cr. 3.
NUR 319 - Alternative and Complementary Therapies Cr. 3.
NUR 399 - Special Topics Cr. 1-6.
PSY 367 - Adult Development and Aging Cr. 3.