Home health nursing is a specialized area of nursing practice that focuses on providing assistance and care to individuals, their families and their caregivers in their homes. Home health nurses provide care to patients across their lifespan, from prenatal through the post-death periods. Home health nursing practice embraces primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention; assistance to families with coordination of community resources and health insurance benefits; and delivery of healthcare services in a patient’s home, including nonconventional residences. Home health nursing stresses the holistic management of personal health practices for the treatment of diseases and disability.

Perioperative nurses work with surgeons, anesthesia providers and advanced practice providers to care for patients before, during and after surgical procedures.

Emergency Nursing is a specialized area of nursing practice that provides care for patients of all ages across a broad spectrum that includes not only the physical, but also the emotional and psychological areas of health. The emergency nurse manages acute, chronic, and episodic emergencies requiring a large span of knowledge. Care can be provided in the form of palliative care, crisis intervention, trauma, lifesaving, and forensics just to name a few.

Nephrology nursing is a specialized area of nursing practice that focuses on the provision of patient care in all areas of nephrology, including hemodialysis, chronic kidney disease, peritoneal dialysis, acute care, and transplantation.

There is no additional cost for BSN students to take the co-curricular IEN or INN modules or to earn the badge. The 96-hour practicum is incorporated into the 96-hour, two-credit NR446 clinical experience

BSN students between the ages of 18-65 years of age whose academic plan correlates with the program’s timing (e.g., NR341 or NR442 for the co-curricular modules and subsequent enrollment in NR446 for the clinical experience) and good academic standing. Good academic standing is defined as no academic warnings and a minimum GPA of 2.0.

Academic credit is not granted for the co-curricular IEN or INN modules. As such, it will be included on your ACHIEVE co-curricular transcript. The program’s clinical experience is incorporated into the 96- hour, two-credit NR446 clinical experience.

A digital badge can be presented to healthcare systems/potential employers during the hiring process as a certification of knowledge and/or skills gained above and beyond traditional coursework. It can be uploaded to sites such as LinkedIn and Glassdoor and added to resumes and CVs.

Placement in an emergency department or nephrology clinical experience will depend on a variety of requirements including successful completion of the IEN or INN modules, academic standing as defined by the absence of an academic warning, intact clinical compliance, a minimum GPA of 2.0, and past clinical performance.

The IEN and INN co-curricular modules are completed over two, eight-week sessions during NR341 or NR442, based on the academic plan used at your campus. If selected for the practicum, 96 clinical hours are completed within another eight-week period. Program completion with graduation will equal 24 weeks total.

Placement in an emergency department or nephrology clinical experience will depend on a variety of requirements including successful completion of the IEN or INN modules, academic standing as defined by the absence of an academic warning, intact clinical compliance, a minimum GPA of 2.0, and past clinical performance.