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 and Nurse Practitioner Certificates
- Analyze social, economic, ethical, cultural, legal, and political issues influencing nursing practice and healthcare in a global context.
- Collaborate with leaders in nursing and other disciplines to improve the quality of profession healthcare practice and the outcomes of care
- Develop and implement innovative applications for simulation experiences in healthcare
- Evaluate models of delivery of simulation in education and healthcare settings in terms of effectiveness
- Evaluate the cost benefit of the use of simulation in healthcare and education
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.