In the spirit of Continuing Education for the GateWay Nursing program, our comprehensive goals include:

• Providing courses designed to impart knowledge and skills in patient management above the entry level for practicing health care professionals (both advanced and refresher courses).
• Providing courses to students who wish to enter the health care field at an entry-level certification program specific to the role of the Patient Care Technician and the Nurse Assistant.
• Partnering with health care agencies to provide diverse learning experiences to expand the student's scope and depth of knowledge.
• Collaborating with health care agencies to identify the evolving needs of the community and to plan and implement a program of study.

The Nursing Continuing Education (NCE) at GateWay Community College is the largest in the state, and offers an exciting variety of one-day workshops, three 9-week courses, and full semester course studies for credit.  Numerous measures have been developed and implemented to assess program and student outcomes relating to Institutional Effectiveness and Student Academic Achievement, respectively.

NCE offers a comprehensive variety of courses to over 2,000 practicing nurses in the community, as well as to our nursing students.  Our course offerings include the following:

• Basic Critical Care
• Telemetry Nursing
• Hemodynamics
• Interpretation of Cardiac Arrhythmias
• Twelve Lead EKG Interpretations
• PICC Line Insertion
• IV Therapy and Medical Skills
• Emergency Room Nursing
• Neurological Nursing
• Case Management
• Physical Assessment
• Conscious Sedation
• Intra-aortic Balloon Pump
• Legal Medical Consulting / Basic and Advanced
• Pharmacology
• Documentation
• School Health Assisting
• School Nurse Certification Classes

In addition to the above course offerings, NEC can also custom design classes to meet the needs of individual healthcare institutions.  We currently have partnerships in place to conduct individualized training with Banner Health, Scottsdale Healthcare, Phoenix Indian Medical Center, Arizona Heart Hospital, Sun Health, as well as numerous long-term care facilities in the Valley and surrounding area.

GateWay NEC also offers refresher classes during the fall and spring semesters for RNs and LPNs who have not practiced nursing for over five years, or who have inactive licenses. These classes comply with the requirements of the Arizona State Board of Nursing, and include 60 hours of Theory, 45 hours of Pharmacology, and 180 hours of Clinical study.