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Re-Entry to Practice for Registered Nurses
The Fast Track Back: Re-entry to Practice for Registered Nurses Program prepares Registered Nurses for re-entry into hospital-based nursing practice through twenty (25) hours of classroom and human simulation learning and eighty (80) hours of hospital-based practice with an experienced Registered Nurse Clinical Coach.
This program is designed for Registered Nurses with a current nursing license in the state of Pennsylvania to refresh their nursing skills. This program is a recognized refresher program and not a reinstatement program, which is required in the event a Registered Nurse has let the nursing license expire.
We offer Fast Track Back to Re-entry Nurses at the University of Pittsburgh Oakland and University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown campus. Lectures are given at the Oakland campus and videoconferenced simultaneously to the Johnstown campus. The advantage to attending the videoconferencing in Johnstown is that Re-entry Nurses from the Johnstown area will only have to drive to Oakland for two Wednesdays to attend the human simulation learning experiences at the WISER Center. They will receive the same classroom content at the same time as the Re-entry Nurses on the Oakland campus. A University of Pittsburgh faculty member, Dr. Nancy Grove, will be in attendance at the Johnstown campus to facilitate the Program and to assign clinical placements in the Johnstown area.
This is a 6-week program that has class one day a week for five (5) weeks, described in more detail below. Clinical times are added as follows: 3rd week for eight (8) hours; 4th week for sixteen (16) hours; 5th week for sixteen (16) hours; and the 6th week is a forty (40) hours clinical experience.
Spring and fall sessions of classes are offered during the calendar year.
Session Schedule:
- Week 1: Introduction to the course; trends in nursing practice (videoconference at Johnstown)
- Week 2: Skills lab; lecture on pharmacology (videoconference at Johnstown)
- Week 3: WISER Center for human simulation experience; lecture on pharmacology (on campus at Oakland)
- Week 4: WISER Center for human simulation experience; medical/surgical nursing updates (on campus at Oakland)
- Week 5: medical/surgical nursing updates; issues and trends in nursing practice (videoconference at Johnstown)
- Week 6: Clinical practicum; each Re-entry RN will work side-by-side with a Clinical Coach according to her/his schedule. This practice is
designed for the Re-entry RN to gain knowledge and experience in the clinical setting. This individualized
precepted practicum experience provides an opportunity to be a member of the health team and organization while applying updated knowledge and interventions in the provision of client care.
Registration Fee: $1,300 – covers the cost of the program, textbooks, lunch and parking for the didactic and simulation components in Oakland Campus
Liability Insurance fee: $12
Location: First-Floor Lobby, Victoria Building
Session schedules, pay-on line, and registration click on link below.
Continuing Nursing Education Credits
This program awards 105.0 continuing nursing education contact hours through the American Nurses Credentialing Center. The University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing is an accredited provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
For more infomation, call 412-624-3156 or email conted@pitt.edu