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This eight-month graduate certificate program provides internationally educated nurses with specialized training related to the prevention and management of cardiovascular illness/disease. These diseases impair everyday physical and mental functions and reduce the ability to perform daily activities. As a graduate of this program, you will be well equipped to manage patients with cardiovascular conditions. You will acquire the skills to manage a patient’s cardiac condition, create an individualized care plan, educate patients on self-care and assess their condition. This program provides specialized training but does not qualify you to work as a nurse in the province. Please see the College of Nurses of Ontario for their guidelines.

Throughout this program you will develop the following skills:

• care planning
• assessment, prioritization/nursing diagnosis, planning, intervention and evaluation of coronary illness/disease
• evaluation of coronary illness/disease standards and guidelines
• Ontario and Canada specific resources for coronary illness/disease management

• medical units with telemetry
• post-operative cardiac surgical units
• coronary care units