UIC College of Nursing/IHCI has the working nurse in mind with accessible, affordable, high-quality on-line courses available now!

Administrative Nursing Leadership Certificate - Earn graduate credit while learning to immediately apply concepts about budgeting & finance, change management, human resources and health care information systems. (6 additional courses earns a Masters Degree in Adminsitrative Nursing.

School Nurse Certificate - 10 graduate level hours. Prerequisites for admission for Type 73 include: RN licensure in Illinois, BSN or BS with additional coursework, passing grade on Basic Skills test.

Palliative Care Course Offerings

Ongoing- Advanced Practice Palliative Care Nursing Certificate

Advanced Practice Palliative Care Continuing Education Option: Nurses and other health professionals in disciplines such as Social Work, Medicine and Pharmacy, can take these three palliative care courses online as a self-study packet for continuing education nursing contact hours. Tuition for each course is moderately priced at $575 when taken for CE. For more information on the individual courses, please see below.

"Dying, Loss and Grief"

"Pain and Symptom Management"

"Ethical Issues in Palliative Care"

Ongoing- Toolkit for Nurturing Excellence at End-Of-Life Transition Self-Study (TNEEL-SS) Tuition for TNEEL-SS is $20 per hour. There are 6 topic areas - each are 2 or 8 hours long for a minimum of 12 - 48 hours total.

APN Council's Spring 2012 Grand Round Series - join us lunch is provided for all that RSVP

Wednesday, March 7, 2012," Basics of Billing & Coding for APNs"| UIC Medical Center, 1740 W. Taylor, Room 1135 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm. To access our on-line survey/evaluation form for this session use this link.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012"What's new about ICD - 10 for APRN coding & billing" UIC Medical Center, 1740 W. Taylor, Room 1135 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm. To access our on-line survey/evaluation form for this session use this link.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 "Creating & Using an Excel template to support the Financial Pro" UIC Medical Center, 1740 W. Taylor, Room 1135 12:00pm - 1:00 PM. To access our on-line survey/evaluation form for this session use this link.

Spring 2012 Graduate Writing Courses

Don't wait to get a "B" or a "C" on your first paper! Speed up the time it takes to write that "A" paper! Skills for graduate writing taught in the A.M. & APA 6th ed. in the P.M. All courses are presented by Rosemary Camilleri, PhD.

Introduction to Graduate Writing - Learn to Write Well, Right Away | Friday, January 27, 2012 | UIC College of Nursing, Room 159, 845 S. Damen Avenue, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm. To register for this class, please use this link. To access our on-line survey/evaluation form for this session use this link

Courses & Webinars

The 20th Annual Diabetes Conference "Diabetes Care: Special Situations II" Wednesday, March 7, 2012 being offered at Giovanni's Restaurant and Convention Center, Rockford, IL. To access our on-line survey/evaluation form for this session use this link.

Writing IEP Goals Part II A Workshop for School Nurses Saturday, March 10, 2012 8:30 am - 12:30 pm UIC College of Nursing 845 S. Damen Chicago, IL Room 159. To register on-line for for this session use this link. To access our on-line survey/evaluation form for this session use this link.

Skin-to-Skin, Laid-back Breastfeeding and Baby-led attachment 1.5 hr training

Skin-to-Skin, 1.5 hr breastfeeding training Jan 19, 2012. To access our on-line survey/evaluation form for this session use this link.

Skin-to-Skin, 1.5 hr breastfeeding training February 6, 2012. To access our on-line survey/evaluation form for this session use this link.

Skin-to-Skin, 1.5 hr breastfeeding training April 10, 2012 7:45-9:45 am. To access our on-line survey/evaluation form for this session use this link

Skin-to-Skin, 1.5 hr breastfeeding training April 13, 2012 7:45-9:45 am. To access our on-line survey/evaluation form for this session use this link

Skin-to-Skin, 1.5 hr breastfeeding training April 17, 2012 7:45-9:45 pm. To access our on-line survey/evaluation form for this session use this link

Skin-to-Skin, 1.5 hr breastfeeding training April 18, 2012 7:45 -9:45 pm. To access our on-line survey/evaluation form for this session use this link

Building Breastfeeding Success in the Hospital Setting 4 hr training

Skin-to-Skin, 4.0 hr breastfeeding training Monday Dec 12, 2011. To access our on-line survey/evaluation form for this session use this link.

Office of the Illinois Attorney General SANE Programs

"Illinois Adult/Adolescent Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) 40 hr Training"| Jan 31, 2012 - Feb 2, 2012
To access our on-line survey/evaluation form please use this link

"Illinois Adult/Adolescent Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) 40 hr Training"| March 6 - 8, 2012
To access our on-line survey/evaluation form please use this link

"Illinois Adult/Adolescent Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Training (SANE) 40 hr Training"|March 27 - 29, 2012
To access our on-line survey/evaluation form please use this link link.

In order to obtain nursing continuing education hours, nurses must pay a $10 fee to UIC College of Nursing and complete an on-line evaluation. To make a payment, please click on this form. For questions please contact Patti McDonough at pattimcd@uic.edu.