The School of Nursing offers continuing education courses to help you maintain nursing competence, advance your career into a specialized area of practice, and/or obtain the educational hours required for your nursing license.
For maximum flexibility, courses are offered either online or by print distance.
Featured courses
Gerontological Nursing
Pain Management
Nursing Care Clients Diabetes
Advanced practice and nurse practitioner
Stay current with your skills and requirements with these advanced online courses. For more information on advanced practice courses contact cnpp@saskpolytech.ca.
Cervical Screening for RNs
Clinical Decision/Auth Prac
Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
IUD Workshop for Nurse Practitioners
Treat Uncomplicated Laceration/Abscess
Venipuncture Specialty Prac
Continuing Care Assistants (CCA) to Practical Nursing
For Continuing Care Assistants (CCA) who graduated from Sask Polytech after 2000 and are interested in pursuing the Practical Nursing diploma, there may be options for you to reduce your study time. Learn more.
Credit courses
These courses may be eligible for transfer credit or PLAR toward a nursing program. Check with the program you are interested in for more details.
Community Nursing
Foundations of Health 1
Health Assessment for LPNs
Leadership in Nursing
IV Therapy/Blood and Blood Products Completer/LPN
Nasogastric Tube Insertion Completer/LPN
Patient Safety
Tracheostomy Care Completer LPN
Variations in Health 1
General nursing skills
Applicable to all nurses, these courses provide a review of basic nursing skills, such as documentation and medication administration, while earning CE hours.
Basic Wound Care
Catheterization Completer LPN
Gerontological Nursing
Health Record Documentation
Nursing Care of Clients with Diabetes
Nursing Skills Refresher/Focused Settings
Roles, Responsibility and Ethics
Safe Medication Administration
Mental health nursing
Designed for LPNs and RNs, these courses focus on specific nursing strategies that assist clients with mental health challenges. Skills obtained can be used alongside physical assessments and interventions in any nursing care environment.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Mood Disorders
Psycho-Social Assessment
Psychotropic Agents
Therapeutic Communication
College of Registered Nurses of Saskatchewan - approved courses
CRNS approved courses for RNs interested in obtaining Additional Authorized Practice designation to work in Saskatchewan’s northern communities. For more information on Additional Authorized Practice courses contact cnpp@saskpolytech.ca.
Specialty nursing skills
For RNs or LPNs, courses that provide in-depth and advanced knowledge in specialized areas of nursing practice.
Care of Patients with Kidney Disease
Sexual Assault Examiner
Sexual Assault Examiner Practicum
Surgical nursing and management
Focusing on sterile technique, surgical procedures, and management skills required for perioperative and medical device reprocessing units from a nursing perspective.
Leadership and Management in Perioperative and Medical Device Reprocessing
Principles of Outpatient Surgery
Plus, Caring for Older Adults, a course open to the public and designed for anyone who is feeling overwhelmed by their role as a caregiver for an older family member.
Group registration and custom training options are available.
Contact us
For more information, email ConEd@saskpolytech.ca or call 306-659-4418.