Professional Certificates
By taking a series of professional development courses, your employees can earn valuable certificates that signify they’re expertise in specific fields and disciplines.
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St. Catherine University offers professional development certificates for those who complete a series of professional development offerings in a variety of important knowledge and skill areas. Organizations of all types – private, public and nonprofit – benefit by partnering with St. Kate’s and offering employees a path to expand their knowledge and skills. Those benefits include identifying future leadership and reaping the rewards of a more efficient, productive and innovative workforce.
By partnering with St. Kate’s, organizations also work with talented and experienced educators who deliver relevant and rigorous academic programs.
Professional Certificates From St. Kate’s
Your employees can earn valuable certificates by completing a specific series of professional development courses offered by St. Kate’s.
Develop the diverse set of skills that position you to create and manage high-performing, diverse teams that embrace the power of innovation. Students learn how being aware of one’s own personal leadership strengths and skills can positively impact one’s ability to successfully manage a team or unit.
Earn the certificate by completing the following professional development offerings:
- Foundations for Emerging Leaders (4 weeks)
- Leading Diverse Teams (4 weeks)
- Leading Change (4 weeks)
Learning Outcomes
- Evaluate personal leadership strengths and opportunities for leadership success.
- Develop successful strategies for recruitment, selection, performance evaluation, and leadership development.
- Develop individual awareness, style, and communication skills that influence outcomes.
- Analyze ethical dilemmas within organizations.
- Develop strategies for high-performing teams.
- Evaluate collaboration skills for team building.
- Analyze the role leadership style plays in conflict management.
- Create and maintain an organizational culture of diversity and inclusion.
- Apply leadership theories to create innovation-focused teams.
- Develop techniques to think strategically and deliver results.
- Evaluate how leadership style relates to social capital and employee buy-in.
- Integrate creative and adaptive strategies that promote positive change.
This certificate program provides nursing leaders with a diverse set of skills that position them to lead and influence organizations to improve health outcomes and patient safety. Nurses complete a series of three leadership-oriented offerings centered on developing the knowledge and skills needed to build, lead and influence future-focused healthcare teams.
Earn the certificate by completing these professional development offerings:
- Nursing Leadership Fundamentals (4 weeks)
- Leading Diverse Teams (4 weeks)
- Leading Change (4 weeks)
Learning Outcomes
- Evaluate how personal leadership strengths can support the success of team initiatives.
- Develop individual awareness, style, and communication skills that foster intra- and interprofessional dialogue aimed at improving the quality and safety of healthcare systems.
- Assess ethical dilemmas with an eye toward promoting a culture of relationship-centered care.
- Develop effective strategies to create change in complex healthcare delivery systems.
- Analyze the role leadership style plays in creating and maintaining a culture of diversity and inclusion.
- Examine the value of diverse perspectives in supporting the optimization of health outcomes.
- Integrate collaboration skills for team building that emphasize cultural competence.
- Develop strategies to create and maintain a just culture conducive to safety and quality across systems.
- Apply leadership theories to create teams capable of responding creatively and ethically to ambiguity in the healthcare environment.
- Develop techniques to think strategically and deliver results that leverage emerging trends and research.
- Evaluate how leadership style can influence the creation of social capital and employee buy-in.
- Integrate creative and adaptive strategies that promote continuous improvement in health outcomes and patient safety.
Learn the knowledge and skills needed to implement and model the best practices for healthcare simulation to support clinical or fieldwork experiences. As part of the certificate program, healthcare professionals develop the knowledge, skills and cultural competency needed to support growth of critical thinking and clinical judgment.
Earn the certificate by completing these professional development offerings:
- Simulation Foundations (4 hrs)
- Simulation Feedback and Assessment (6 hrs)
- Developing Cultural Humility (8 hrs)
- Clinical Preceptor Workshop (8 hrs)
Learning Outcomes
- Explore how healthcare simulation standards of best practice apply to the facilitation of clinical/fieldwork.
- Implement healthcare simulation standards of prebriefing, facilitation cueing, and debriefing strategies.
- Value evaluation strategies to create sustainable partners.
- Value the importance of feedback skills to support the preceptor-learner relationship.
- Discuss effective feedback strategies to use with learners.
- Practice using feedback strategies to build skills to support preceptors, mentors, and clinical faculty.
- Define the practice of cultural humility skills.
- Value the importance of learning cultural humility skills to impact the care of patients/clients.
- Assist students to synthesize clinical/fieldwork experiences through effective debriefing strategies.
- Discuss how the practice of prebriefing benefits and establishes expectations for clinical/fieldwork.
- Practice facilitation strategies of cueing to support the development of clinical judgment for students.
This certificate provides leaders with the skills needed to create and manage high-performing, diverse teams that embrace the power of data in a myriad of forms. Professionals focus on learning strategic communication, customer insights and strategy for global and domestic markets; descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive data analysis; data visualization and storytelling; and decision analysis with an emphasis on the complementary role quantitative and qualitative data sources play in business optimization.
Earn the certificate by completing the following professional development offerings:
- Interprofessional Communication (4 weeks)
- Data Storytelling (4 weeks)
- Data-driven Decision Making (4 weeks)
Learning Outcomes
- Assess your own personal communication style.
- Evaluate how your own personal biases affect your ability to communicate within a team.
- Analyze the role our dispositions play in team building and conflict management.
- Develop strategies to become an effective communicator within and among data-rich teams.
- Distinguish the differences between data, information and insights.
- Demystify data tools, reporting and analysis within the organization.
- Synthesize qualitative data to uncover business-relevant customer insights.
- Interpret data visualizations and communicate the stories they tell.
- Establish foundational knowledge related to analytical thinking and data-informed decision making.
- Understand how many different (and sometimes conflicting) stories can be told with the same data.
- Leverage data trends to develop growth strategies for new and emerging markets.
- Develop a compelling evidence-based story, culminating in specific recommendations for senior leadership.
Digital Badging From St. Kate’s
St. Catherine University focuses on providing professionals in your organization the tools needed to expand their knowledge and skills, making an impact on your organization. St. Kate’s also gives professionals a way to display their newly earned credentials with digital badges as part of all its Continuing Education offerings. Digital credentials allow learners to highlight their skills. They can be used on social media sites, as well as on company websites. These digital badges contain verified metadata that describes the employee’s qualifications and the process required to earn them.
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