School Nurse Wellness Coordinator Certificate
College of Nursing
Advance your skills and leadership as a school nurse with this unique online certificate program.
The online graduate School Nurse Wellness Coordinator certificate is for Ohio Registered Nurses with three years of school nurse experience and who hold a current School Nurse Professional Pupil Services License through the Ohio Department of Education (ODE).
Ohio State's online school nurse wellness certificate is the only approved program of its kind in the state of Ohio. Through this certificate program, students will be prepared to provide leadership and coordination for the wellness of students and their families, school staff, and the community at large. This online certificate program includes four core master’s level courses and a culminating field experience in an Ohio school. Upon completion of this program, graduates will be eligible for a School Nurse Wellness Coordinator endorsement through ODE.
Experiences will focus on coordinating of the school’s health service delivery system, learning strategies to provide emergency preparedness programming, building collaboration with other leaders in pupil personnel services and administration, and leadership in school health services within the context of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model.
the Master of Science in Nursing program or the Doctor of Nursing Practice program.
Campus Requirements: NONE – 100% online
Class Format: Classes are offered in an asynchronous format and synchronous format. What's the difference?
Credit Hours Required: 13
Cost Per Credit Hour: $812.07 (includes instructional and general fees). See the full cost breakdown here.
Admission Requirements: Completed bachelor’s degree, an active RN license in Ohio, an active School Nurse Professional Pupil Services license with the Ohio Department of Education, and must reside in Ohio.
Time to Completion: Three semesters
Jeanie Bochenek
Assistant Professor of Clinical Practice
"The School Nurse Wellness Coordinator certificate prepares students to lead, coordinate, implement, and execute successful health and safety initiatives that target groups of students, families, school staff and the community at-large."
Sample Courses
NURSING 7500
Nursing in the American Health Care System (available sections offered synchronously and asynchronously)
Analysis of the U.S. health care delivery system and the policy making process, with an emphasis on the social, political and economic factors affecting the delivery of Nursing services.
NURSING 7780
Evidence Based Nursing Scholarship for the Master’s Prepared Nurse (available sections offered synchronously and asynchronously)
Introduction to intermediate research methods and statistics applied in evidence based nursing scholarship. Includes literature search methods, critique of research methods and results, and synthesis of evidence related to clinical nursing problems.
Nursing 7403
Innovation Leadership in Advanced Nursing Practice (available sections offered synchronously and asynchronously)
Analysis of organizational leadership and ethical essentials necessary to deliver high-quality patient care in diverse settings.
Nursing 7491
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Across the Lifespan (available sections offered synchronously and asynchronously)
Analyze strategies to encourage change in both individual's and population's health behaviors that influence risk reduction in multiple settings. Develop educational strategies utilizing advanced critical thinking.
