Nursing education beyond graduation at St. Clair College
St. Clair College has provided the training nurses need to become proficient in their profession for many years, and their education doesn’t stop after students cross the stage and graduate.
Through the college’s Continuing Education, a number of courses are offered for nurses to expand their skills and knowledge and to keep updated in the field.
“Continuous improvement in nursing skills, access to quality professional development opportunities and pathways for non-practicing nurses to rejoin the profession are important to us,” says Irene Moore Davis, manager of Continuing Education at St. Clair. “We appreciate the significant roles that nurses play in our community and we want to support them.”
Many community members benefit from the college’s open enrolment additional skills courses for nurses who are currently practicing in Ontario, such as foot care, IV therapy, palliative care, wound care, dementia studies (online) and arrhythmias/12lead ECG, says Moore Davis.
“As well, we deliver additional skills training at the request of local health care institutions and agencies to meet their employees’ emerging needs,” she adds.
Canadian-trained nurses who are returning to practice after years away from the profession and internationally educated nurses who want to practice in Ontario can find a wide range of evening and online courses and clinical placement experiences that will help them meet the reregistration requirements set out by the College of Nurses of Ontario, adds Moore Davis.
“St. Clair College’s Continuing Education has had a long history of offering additional skills courses for nurses as well as pathways for nurses returning to practice and internationally educated nurses,” says Moore Davis. “Some of these programs have been available for many years, although the curriculum ais regularly updated. The Personal Support Worker Certificate program has been offered part-time in the evenings for nearly 20 years and has been continuously updated to maintain consistency with full-time delivery and with current standards.”
According to Moore Davis, in a typical year, there are more than 1,000 registrations in St. Clair College’s Continuing Education nursing-related courses and workshops. St. Clair College is one of the largest and most reputable providers of education in the health sciences and nursing in Ontario, she adds.
“We are so pleased with the success that so many graduates of our fulltime and part-time programs have achieved and we strive to offer programming that will move these professionals forward in their careers on an ongoing basis,” says Moore Davis.