Are you a nurse or an allied healthcare professional looking to expand your skills? ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ has many continuing education options for you to broaden your knowledge and understanding with groups you may work with in a healthcare setting.
Register in these online* courses at your own pace, and earn your professional development hours or broaden your employment opportunities. Courses for each program must be completed within seven years* of being accepted in order to graduate and earn your certificate.
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Explore more about these programs and register today for courses beginning on January 14, 2025.
*Perioperative Nursing includes an in-person field placement as the final course. Courses for this program must be completed in order as listed and must be complete within five years to earn your certificate.
Addictions and Mental Health Studies
Program Code: 3056
Courses: 7
End Date: Complete within 7 years
This online certificate is designed for professionals working in healthcare, education, or social and community services fields who are currently working with, or would like to work with, populations affected by addictions and mental illness. You will explore complexities of mental illness, the link to addictions, and the needs of a diverse population.
| Addictions and Mental Health | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | OEL1235 |
| Start Date | January 14, 2025 |
| End Date | April 22, 2025 |
| Location | Online |
| Cost | $385.82 |
| Human Development | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | OEL1273 |
| Start Date | January 14, 2025 |
| End Date | April 22, 2025 |
| Location | Online |
| Cost | $338.85 |
| Introduction to Counselling | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | OEL1400 |
| Start Date | January 14, 2025 |
| End Date | April 22, 2025 |
| Location | Online |
| Cost | $385.82 |
| Mental Health and Society | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | OEL1266 |
| Start Date | January 14, 2025 |
| End Date | April 22, 2025 |
| Location | Online |
| Cost | $385.82 |
| Positive Perspectives: Methods and Strategies | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | OEL8001 |
| Start Date | January 14, 2025 |
| End Date | April 22, 2025 |
| Location | Online |
| Cost | $305.30 |
| Elective Courses (Complete 2) | Course Code |
|---|---|
| OEL1276 | |
| OEL1399 | |
| OEL1280 | |
| OEL1281 | |
| OEL1279 | |
| OEL8009 | |
| OEL1277 | |
| OEL1278 |
Nephrology Nursing
Program Code: 3155
Courses: 7
End Date: Complete within 7 years
This program prepares nurses to deliver kidney care to affected patients across all stages of the kidney care journey, from early detection through dialysis, palliative care, and transplant. It provides nurses with the knowledge they require to promote and deliver competent, safe and ethical care to those at risk for developing or affected by renal disease and/or insufficiency.
Mentored Knowledge Integration must be taken last after all other courses are completed.
| Living With Chronic Kidney Disease | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | OEL1267 |
| Start Date | January 14, 2025 |
| End Date | April 22, 2025 |
| Location | Online |
| Cost | $385.82 |
| Mentored Knowledge Integration | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | OEL1282 |
| Start Date | January 14, 2025 |
| End Date | April 22, 2025 |
| Location | Online |
| Cost | $506.60 |
To register for this course, you must first complete all other courses in the program: OEL1267, OEL1268, OEL1269, OEL1270, OEL1271, OEL1272.
| Normal and Abnormal Kidney Function | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | OEL1272 |
| Start Date | January 14, 2025 |
| End Date | April 22, 2025 |
| Location | Online |
| Cost | $385.82 |
| Nursing Care Across the Kidney Disease Trajectory | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | OEL1271 |
| Start Date | January 14, 2025 |
| End Date | April 22, 2025 |
| Location | Online |
| Cost | $385.82 |
| Nursing Care of Hemodialysis Patient | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | OEL1269 |
| Start Date | January 14, 2025 |
| End Date | April 22, 2025 |
| Location | Online |
| Cost | $385.82 |
| Nursing To Peritoneal Dialysis Patient | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | OEL1270 |
| Start Date | January 14, 2025 |
| End Date | April 22, 2025 |
| Location | Online |
| Cost | $385.82 |
| Nursing Care of the Transplant Patient | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | OEL1268 |
| Start Date | January 14, 2025 |
| End Date | April 22, 2025 |
| Location | Online |
| Cost | $385.82 |
Palliative Care
Program Code: 3255
Courses: 5
End Date: Complete within 7 years
The program is designed to develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes required in caring for the terminally ill and their families. This will benefit social service workers, RPNs, personal support workers, volunteers, and clergy. You will develop compassionate care skills and knowledge of comfort measures to improve the quality of remaining life for those with terminal illness.
| Comfort Measures | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | OEL587 |
| Start Date | January 14, 2025 |
| End Date | April 8, 2025 |
| Location | Online |
| Cost | $305.30 |
| Ethical/Legal and Spiritual Concerns | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | OEL648 |
| Start Date | January 14, 2025 |
| End Date | April 22, 2025 |
| Location | Online |
| Cost | $385.82 |
| Orientation to Palliative Care | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | OEL602 |
| Start Date | January 14, 2025 |
| End Date | April 8, 2025 |
| Location | Online |
| Cost | $305.30 |
| Palliative Care Communications | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | OEL603 |
| Start Date | January 14, 2025 |
| End Date | April 8, 2025 |
| Location | Online |
| Cost | $238.20 |
| Psychological and Social Implications | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | OEL1164 |
| Start Date | January 14, 2025 |
| End Date | March 25, 2025 |
| Location | Online |
| Cost | $305.30 |
Perioperative Nursing
Program Code: 3057
Courses: 5
End Date: Complete within 5 years
Entrance Requirements: Current College of Nurses of Ontario Certificate of Registration as a Registered Nurse or Registered Practical Nurse.
This program is designed to help Registered Nurses (RNs) and Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs) work with patients who are having operative or other invasive procedures. Perioperative nurses work closely with surgeons, anaesthesiologists, surgical technologists, and nurse practitioners in a variety of perioperative settings.
Courses must be taken in order as listed.
This program includes an in-person field placement for the final course. Registration for the field placement course can take place once all theory courses have been successfully completed and field placement requirements have been submitted and approved. Please email continuingeducation@saultcollege.ca for more information on the registration process.
| Perioperative Nursing 1 | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | OEL1004 |
| Start Date | January 14, 2025 |
| End Date | April 22, 2025 |
| Location | Online |
| Cost | $385.82 |
*This course must be taken first. Courses must be taken in order as listed.
| Perioperative Nursing 2 | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | OEL1035 |
| Start Date | January 14, 2025 |
| End Date | April 22, 2025 |
| Location | Online |
| Cost | $385.82 |
*This course must be taken after Perioperative Nursing 1.
| Perioperative Nursing 3 | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | OEL1045 |
| Start Date | January 14, 2025 |
| End Date | April 22, 2025 |
| Location | Online |
| Cost | $385.82 |
*This course must be taken after Perioperative Nursing 1 and 2.
| Perioperative Nursing 4 | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | OEL1046 |
| Start Date | January 14, 2025 |
| End Date | April 22, 2025 |
| Location | Online |
| Cost | $385.82 |
*This course must be taken after Perioperative Nursing 1, 2, and 3.
| Perioperative Nursing Placement | |
|---|---|
| Course Code | PNP100 |
| Start Date | Following completion of theory courses Must have approval of field placement requirements. |
| End Date | 150 placement hours over 10-15 weeks max. |
| Location | In-Person/Field Placement |
| Cost | $452.57 |
*This course must be taken after Perioperative Nursing 1, 2, 3, and 4. Registration for the field placement course can take place once all theory courses have been successfully completed and field placement requirements have been submitted and approved. Please email continuingeducation@saultcollege.ca for more information on the registration process.