Add a Nursing Specialty or Certification
Learn from leading experts to enhance your nursing career with one of the graduate certificate programs at the UCF College of Nursing. Choose from nurse educator, healthcare simulation, Hispanic serving healthcare professionals and nurse practitioner graduate certificate programs.
Why UCF College of Nursing
- High-quality education grounded in evidence-based practice and accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)
- Led by nationally recognized faculty who are experts in their field and actively engaged in innovative research
- Flexible and convenient with fully online or hybrid-online programs, and full- or part-time options
Program Objectives
Nurse Educator Certificate
- Translate evidence from nursing science and other disciplines into nursing education practices to improve student learning outcomes.
- Apply evidence-based findings to design effective teaching, learning, assessment, and evaluation strategies for educating professional nurses and nursing students in different settings.
- Evaluate nursing education curricula, program objectives, competency statements, and student learning outcomes.
- Analyze internal and external factors influencing nursing education curriculum development to inform revisions.
- Lead implementation of innovative evidence-based practices and policies in nursing education to improve outcomes in a diverse healthcare environment.
- Pursue ongoing scholarly professional growth and excellence as a nurse educator.
- Demonstrate integrity, compassion, and excellence in mentorship, service, and professionalism in nursing education.
Nurse Practitioner Certificate
- Analyze social, economic, ethical, cultural, legal and political issues influencing nursing practice and health care in a global context.
- Collaborate with leaders in nursing and other disciplines to improve the quality of professional nursing practice and the healthcare system.
- Develop and implement leadership, management and teaching strategies for the improvement of health and healthcare.
- Develop practice models of evidence-based nursing practice incorporating nursing research.
- Influence health and public policy to improve the health of communities.
- Participate in lifelong learning activities.
- Participate in research and disseminate research findings through presentation and publication.
- Synthesize advanced knowledge from the sciences, humanities and nursing theories to support advanced nursing practice.
- Plan, evaluate and implement the delivery of health care using critical thinking skills.
- Practice in an advanced nursing role.
Healthcare Simulation Certificate
- Analyze ethical, legal, and political issues influencing healthcare simulation.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary professionals to improve the quality of healthcare practice and the outcomes of care through simulation-based education.
- Create an evidence-based healthcare simulation including an evaluation plan.
- Plan operations for healthcare simulation.
- Construct an evidence-based healthcare simulation project.
- Apply best practice standards in simulation-based education by facilitating a comprehensive healthcare simulation experience that integrates learning objectives, outcomes, pre-briefing, facilitation strategies, and debriefing.
Hispanic Serving Healthcare Professionals Certificate
- Summarize linguistic/cultural resources that could be used to improve health literacy in the Hispanic community.
- Classify the various roles of healthcare professionals in the Hispanic community related to healthcare advocacy.
- Solve dilemmas depicted in simulated healthcare case studies through application of strategies to promote wellness and health literacy in Hispanic communities.
- Create an evidence-based educational flyer for the target population (classified as Hispanic) related to a disease or process that has been identified as a healthcare disparity.
- Develop policy recommendations using interdisciplinary stakeholders to mitigate social determinants of health in the Hispanic community.
- Compare and contrast healthcare disparities faced by the Hispanic community within the social determinants of health framework.
- Explain the dynamics of a healthcare encounter between healthcare practitioners and Hispanic clients and patients while identifying potential sources of miscommunication.
- Identify and address the various sources of cultural and language barriers for healthcare delivery with Hispanic clients and patients.
- Apply the cultural awareness framework to healthcare encounters with Hispanic clients and patients.
- Apply mediation strategies when caring for Hispanic clients and patients with limited English proficiency.
- Provide practice in caring for Hispanic patients in a variety of settings.