The graduate certificates in Advanced Nursing Practice I and II are designed to provide advanced nursing practice knowledge and practical experience for registered nurses who wish to acquire specialized skills.
The certificates will strengthen nursing professionals’ knowledge and skills that are specific to their area of practice, and will support them to integrate role dimensions that include advanced clinical skills, organizational leadership, research, education, professional development and consultation to impact patient, provider, and health system outcomes.
Each specialization within both certificates will be a cohort-based, one-year, part-time online program. The delivery model will allow students who live outside of Calgary to obtain graduate education at the Faculty of Nursing while continuing to work.
Completing this program
- Courses: One graduate certificate in Advanced Nursing Practice is part-time and takes one year to complete. This involves taking one course each semester over the four standard semesters (Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer). All students will complete a specialized practice demonstration in the fourth and final course of each of the certificate programs.
Specializations
- Addiction and Mental Health
- Contemporary Topics in Aging
- Innovations in Teaching and Learning
- Leadership for Health System Transformation
- Healthcare Innovation and Design
- Palliative and End of Life Care
- Professional Practice Entrepreneurship
- Oncology Nursing
- Rural and Remote Nursing
Students must choose a different specialization in each of the two certificates.