Continuing Professional education

Register now for:

ANP/FNP Certification Review

Legal Nurse Consulting

Sexuality Culture and Health

About Us

Welcome to the Center for Lifelong Learning, where we offer specialized continuing professional education for nurses and others in healthcare. As you embark on your professional journey you will encounter times when you need additional knowledge and skills to take you to the next level. Our courses can take you there.

Our courses are taught by nationally recognized expert faculty and instructors, are thought provoking and stimulate critical thinking, provide the knowledge and skills necessary for job promotion/retention, provide valuable networking, and ultimately provide the opportunity for professional and personal growth.
Pam Smith

At the Center for Lifelong Learning we believe that learning is lifelong and we would like to invite you to join us for your specialized continuing professional education needs. We value the opportunity to establish a relationship with you and are committed to your success, because we believe that when you’re successful, we’re successful.

 

Pamela C. Smith, MS, ANP  (Read Bio)
Senior Associate in Clinical Nursing
Director, Center for Lifelong Learning
E-mail:  Pamela_Smith@urmc.rochester.edu

Faculty Spotlight

Judy Cavanaugh MS, NP-C, RNFA and Diane M. Szpiler, MS, RN, CNOR, RNFA are the expert clinical faculty who teach the Registered Nurse First Assistant classes. Recently, they have begun sharing their unique skill set and educating other healthcare providers in their course Wound Closure: Suturing for the Advanced Practitioner.  Both practice at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC).

Many people, including nurses, are unaware of the role of Registered Nurse First Assistant.  “The RN First Assistant position is an expanded perioperative role that requires additional education that includes both a didactic and supervised internship component” Szpiler says. “It involves assisting maneuvers for and with a surgeon who is sanctioned by the state of New York and includes independent patient interventions which are not within the scope of practice for nurses and techs that have not been through the program.”   Cavanaugh adds, “They also monitor the big picture of the surgery…to help anticipate needs during the surgery.” Read more...