The High Acuity Advanced Certificate has been designed for RNs practicing in acute care who are ready to expand their practice to high acuity nursing. You will learn how to explore the patient’s experience of an acute illness while applying theoretical frameworks (i.e. oxygen supply & demand, comprehensive assessment and ethical clinical decision making) while exploring complex, acute, and often co-existing chronic illnesses such as: myocardial ischemia, heart failure (chronic and acute), hemodynamic instability in the AAA surgical patient, COPD, diabetes, renal insufficiency, alterations in cerebral oxygen supply and demand, and systemic inflammatory response syndrome and the septic continuum within the high acuity environment. Upon completion of the program, you'll be able to work in general high acuity care or specialize in high acuity units such as cardiac, respiratory, or trauma.