This graduate, certificate program will provide the RN with the knowledge and skills to function effectively in Perioperative (Preoperative, Intraoperative and Postoperative) Nursing. In addition to theoretical knowledge the program provides the student with the technical skills required as a surgical team member. Lab days and clinical experience are integrated throughout the program. A consolidated practicum is taken at the end of the program.

Note: Clinical observation days occur in the first two weeks of the Program. Students must therefore have Criminal Record checks completed by the night of the first class of the first course in September.

Students must be admitted into the program before registering for any courses. Admission to this program occurs every September. The program takes 9 months to complete. Classes are held every Wednesday evening and every Saturday.

This course covers perianaesthesia nursing care provided by RN's in a hospital-based post anaesthetic care unit, a surgical daycare setting and/or a unit where anaesthetic agents are administered, for example in an independent health care facility or an oral surgery setting. Topics will include anaesthetic agents, regional anaesthetics, pre and post anaesthetic assessments, pain control, post-operative emergencies and problems, airway management, IV sedation, legal and ethical issues in the post anaesthetic care setting.

This course consists of 45 hours of theory.

January 17 2012 to April 24 2012 at Doon Campus, 1800 to 2100. Cost: $296.05 plus textbook

This course is available in-class or through Distance Education. It provides an introduction to basic arrhythmias covering topics such as cardiac physiology and lead placement. Students will learn to identify normal sinus rhythm, mechanisms and treatment of common arrhythmias, pacemaker rhythms and life threatening arrhythmias. Nursing and Physician interventions for common arrhythmias will also be discussed.

In class January 10 2012 to Feb 21 2012, Tuesday evenings from 1800 to 2100 at Doon Campus OR Distance online Janury 9 2012 to March 9 2012. Cost: $166.35

Admission: RN, EMCA.

So, you have been working with monitored clients and feel comfortable with the basic arrhythmias you see on a daily basis. Often you find yourself being puzzled by a complex rhythm strip or have heard about less common arrhythmias and want to find out more about them. If so, this is the course for you.

Topics include: mechanisms of arrhythmias, aberrancy vs. ectopy, how certain cardiac drugs and eletroytes affect the ECG, rhythms involving accessory pathways, i.e. WPW or Lown-Ganong-Levine, differentiating narrows vs. wide complex tachycardias. Pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment of these arrhythmias will be discussed. Finally, this course will review methods of cardiac pacing, discuss cardioversion vs. defibrillation and review principles of internal cardiac defibrillators (ICD).

January 11 2012 to Feb 22 2012 at Doon Campus, 21 hour course Wednesday Evenings from 1800 to 2100

Current Certificate of Registration - RN.

Anatomy and physiology are studied in detail with emphasis on myocardial contraction, electrophysiology, control mechanisms of the heart and cardiac output. Topics will include the pathophysiology of coronary artery disease, angina, myocardial infarction and associated implications, hypertension and heart failure, as well as cardiomyopathies and traumatic injury of the heart. Each of these units will include a discussion of pathological processes, diagnostic tools and assessment, medical treatment and nursing management.

January 9 2012 to April 13 2012 Distance Education. Cost: $166.35

This course is for RN and RPN's working in an obstetrical environment who have experience in caring for patients's per, druing and post cesarn birth. The topics reviewed will include communicaiton, documenation, team building, peroperative assessment, surgical checklist, ethical and legal guidelines within the context of the obstetrical surgical client and their family. A review of the scrub nurse and circulating nusew will be examined in the lab environment. Other topics included are sterilization, latex allergy, malignant hyperthermia, and sepecific gynecological procedures such as cesarean birth, D&C and hysterectomy.

Coming Spring 2012. 60 hour course - combination on line, labs and clinical.