SECTION III: Facilities, Resources, and Services

The Center for Lifelong Learning (CLL)

The Center for Lifelong Learning (CLL) at the University of Rochester School of Nursing offers continuing education, professional development, and nursing school elective/prerequisite courses. Program and course offerings constantly evolve to meet the needs of an increasingly complex healthcare environment. Because the science and practice of health care are continuously advancing, the CLL offers opportunities for nurses and other health care professionals to learn new knowledge and skills and explore different career roles and responsibilities. The CLL courses are offered in multiple formats. The many fully online, self-paced courses provide flexibility for working professionals while other courses offer incredible in-person learning experiences. Course offerings include prerequisite coursework and labs for nursing and other health profession programs, the RN First Assistant course, the Legal Nurse Consultant course, and non-credit offerings such as Care Management Education and Medical Terminology.

Our Registered Nurse First Assistant (RNFA) course prepares a Certified Perioperative Nurse (CNOR) to take on an expanded role and empowers Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) to follow their surgical patients throughout the perioperative experience. This graduate-level six-credit course meets Association of Peri-Operative 63 Registered Nurses (AORN) standards and is open to students in any of our master’s or doctoral-level programs as well as non-matriculated students with a baccalaureate degree in nursing. Students engage in a five-week intensive course with weekly online synchronous sessions based on the five modules of the AORN curriculum, one-and-a-half in-person skills days, and 200 hours of hands-on experience in the role of the RNFA. A certificate of completion is provided at the end of the course. This program is an acceptable program for CRNFA or RNAS-C eligibility with the National Assistant at Surgery Certification (NASC). Prospective students must have pre-, peri- or post-operative experience and a surgeon willing to precept their clinical hours.