The Combined Critical Care and Emergency Advanced Certificate is specifically designed for registered nurses (RNs) working in a community hospital in the intensive care unit with some shifts in the emergency department. The program focuses on providing the knowledge, skills and judgement to assess and care for patients experiencing an imbalance in oxygen supply and demand for acute coronary syndrome, cardiac failure, hemodynamic instability, respiratory insufficiency to acute respiratory failure. The emergency courses focus on assessment frameworks, pathophysiology to enable nurses to serve clients with a diverse range of illness and injury from a wide age spectrum. Upon graduation, you'll be able to enhance your skill set in your current workplace or transition to working in community intensive and cardiac care units with some responsibilities in a community emergency department.