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Nursing Education at the Wake AHEC
Wake AHEC collaborates with area schools
and agencies to support the recruitment, retention, distribution
and career satisfaction of nurses with an evolving set of initiatives
as well as on-going continuing education.
RN Refresher Program:
Approved
by the NC Board of Nursing, the RN Refresher Program is for nurses
who have an inactive license or have been out of nursing for more
than 5 years. It is a self-paced learning program, consisting of
a correspondence course and a clinical practicum. Medical-surgical
concepts as well as psychosocial aspects of nursing care are presented.
Depending on your needs, you may wish to take the complete program
or only the correspondence course. However, if the nurse’s license
is inactive, the precepted clinical practicum is mandatory for activating
the nursing license.
The correspondence course, “Medical-Surgical Review”, includes approximately
25 modules on topics in the
field of nursing and offers 14 CEUs
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The clinical
practicum (available only in North Carolina) consists of 160 hours
in a medical-surgical unit working one-on-one with a preceptor.
A regional AHEC nurse refresher coordinator in your area coordinates
this portion of the program.
The clinical practicum offers 16 CEUs
and can begin only after the correspondence course has been
completed.
To be eligible to enroll in the Nurse Refresher Program, the applicant
must attend an orientation
with their area Nurse Refresher Coordinator.
For more information, please contact Wake AHEC at
919-350-8547.
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