Graduate Nursing Certificates
The OKWU School of Nursing Certificates in Administration, Informatics and Education designed to bridge the gap for nurses who desire career recognition in specialty areas. The earned certificate will demonstrate proficiency in advanced topics that lead to promotion in career ladders and excellence within the profession. Each class completed in the certificate can be applied to an MSN degree at OKWU. Expand your knowledge and expertise while gaining the tools to impact patient outcomes from a system perspective. Take your career to the next level while expanding your outreach as a Kingdom nurse.
Nursing Informatics
Nurses with an informatics certificate possess specialized knowledge and skills in the field of healthcare informatics, which combines nursing expertise with information technology to improve healthcare delivery and outcomes.
Nursing Administration
The field of healthcare administration offers a wide range of roles and opportunities, and nurses with administrative skills and knowledge are in demand to lead and shape healthcare organizations
Nursing Education
BSN nurses may work as clinical educators, staff development coordinators, continuing education specialists, or health educators in secondary or vocational schools.
MSN or higher may also work in clinical educators, simulation coordinators, nursing professors, healthcare consultants or writers.
Career Path
- Nursing Informaticists – Mean salary $75,000-125,000
- Medical and Health Service managers – Medium pay range in 2021 was 83,330-$119,450
- Nursing Educator – Variable, but may earn an average salary of $82,040
Earning Your Nursing Certificates at OKWU
The OKWU School of Nursing has been built on the foundation of Christ and His ministry to heal individuals, communities, and nations.
- Enhance your knowledge and skills. Specialty certificates allow you to gain in-depth knowledge and make you a valuable asset in your workplace.
- Career Advancement. A specialty certificate can make you eligible for higher level positions and enhance your marketability.
- Professional Recognition and Credibility. Earning a specialty certificate from an accredited university demonstrates your commitment to professional growth and excellence. Specialty certifications are often recognized and respected by colleagues, employers, and patients, enhancing your professional reputation and credibility.
- Earn advanced standing in OKWU graduate programs. All courses in our certificate program transfer into the MSN or BSN to DNP program. If you decide to continue your education and earn a higher degree, you have already completed part of the work.
- All certificate programs at OKWU are accredited by the Higher learning commission.
- Complete your certificate in approximately 6 months.
Featured Core Classes
Health Care Informatics Literacy: Analysis and Data Management
This course introduces data, information, and knowledge literacy. Students will use information and communication technology tools to gather, manage, and interpret data to deliver quality, safe, patient centered care in health care systems. Principles of information management, information exchange, and data analytics will be explored from an interdisciplinary team approach.
Management Leadership Nursing Health Care
This course provides a study of change theories and practice, health law, marketing, human resources, and collaboration and negotiation techniques and methods to effectively resolve conflicts. This course prepares students to become transformational leaders and innovative educators. Focus is placed on improving quality and safety methods, performance measures, evaluation tools, and standards of care.
Curriculum Design/Innovation/Evaluation
Students examine trends in nursing and explore the influence of these trends on nursing curriculum such as the use of simulation and application of technology in the classroom. Various teaching and learning strategies will be examined and tested by students in this course. Emphasis on Malcolm Knowles’ Adult Learning Theory as well as principles of Pedagogy will be incorporated into curriculum design components.
Experience the OKWU Difference
In addition to providing our students with a mastery of their craft, we desire to instill a firm foundation of Christian values and ethics consistent with the mission of OKWU. We prepare our graduates to be true leaders in the field of nursing.
The baccalaureate degree program in nursing, master’s degree program in nursing, and Doctor of Nursing Practice program at Oklahoma Wesleyan University is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (ccneaccreditation.org).
Do I have to have a master’s degree to get this certificate?
No. While this would be a beneficial post master’s certificate, we do allow students with a BSN to enter our certificate program.
Do I have to have an active RN license?
Yes. We require all student to have an active unencumbered RN license.
Is this certificate the same as the ANCC certifications?
No. This is a certificate program that has academic credit. This does include the testing associated with AANC certificate programs. Completion of this certificate can be helpful in preparing you for a ANCC certification exam. Our certificates are written at graduate level and do not expire or require renewal.
Do I earn academic credit?
Yes. All courses offered in our certificate program are also offered in our MSN or BSN to DNP program. These courses will transfer into either program if you decide to continue your education.
Are their clinical hours associated with these certificate program?
Yes. We have indirect practice clinical hours associated with the coursework within the assignments. These post-baccalaureate practice hours may be transferable to meet the requirements in DNP programs.
