NC AHEC RN Refresher Program
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*Registration payment includes Credit Cards and Interfund Transfers ONLY.
Target Audience
Registered Nurses, inactive Registered Nurses
Description
Considering updating your RN skills to return to practice or re-activating your nursing license? The NC AHEC RN Refresher Program is designed for RNs with an inactive license greater than 5 years. It is also available to RNs with an active license who want to update their knowledge and skills. The program consists of an online theory component and a clinical practicum. The theory component has 24 online modules which review adult nursing concepts. The modules are offered by UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing and UNC-Chapel Hill Digital Lifelong Learning. The clinical component is 140 hours of precepted clinical experience and is coordinated by Charlotte AHEC. Enrollment is ongoing.
Costs of the program:
Administrative fee (paid to the regional AHEC): $125
Theory Course (paid to UNC-CH Digital and Lifelong Learning*): $1000
Clinical Practicum fee (paid to the AHEC where the Clinical Practicum is administered): $250
Please contact the course coordinator, Kathryn Fitzpatrick, for more information or to schedule an appointment to enroll. Prospective students meet with the RN Refresher Coordinator to verify course eligibility before they are able to register for the program.
Objectives
- Utilize principles of contemporary nursing, evidence-based practice and technology when providing patient care.
- Function within the legal and ethical aspects of nursing using knowledge of the RN scope of practice.
- Provide effective nursing care utilizing the institution’s care delivery model.
- Use the Nursing Process to plan, implement and evaluate individualized patient care.
- Integrate knowledge of anatomy and physiology, common diagnostic studies and pathophysiology of common disorders when providing patient care.
- Use knowledge of nursing implications when administering medications, maintaining fluid balance and providing nursing care.
- Use quality and safety principles to communicate, manage, and create a culture of safety in the workplace.
- Incorporate patient care needs, consider culture and safety when caring for patients including a dignified death.
Sessions
- Status
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Open
- Date(s)
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Jul 1 - Jun 30, 2023
- Credit
- 140.00 - Contact Hours
- Description
- Charlotte AHEC RN Refresher Clinical Component
- Objective(s)
- Utilize principles of contemporary nursing, evidence-based practice and technology when providing patient care.
- Function within the legal and ethical aspects of nursing using knowledge of the RN scope of practice.
- Provide effective nursing care utilizing the institution’s care delivery model.
- Use the Nursing Process to plan, implement and evaluate individualized patient care.
- Integrate knowledge of anatomy and physiology, common diagnostic studies and pathophysiology of common disorders when providing patient care.
- Use knowledge of nursing implications when administering medications, maintaining fluid balance and providing nursing care.
- Use quality and safety principles to communicate, manage, and create a culture of safety in the workplace.
- Incorporate patient care needs, consider culture and safety when caring for patients including a dignified death.
- Status
-
Open
- Date(s)
-
Jul 1 - Jun 30, 2023
