1. Free 12 month online subscription to the AORN Video Library ($600 value) covering OR fundamentals. This excellent presentation of 38 videos quickly initiates the new nurse practitioner into the unique world of perioperative nursing.

2. Online Distance Learning Program - 98 hours of easy to follow, step by step, home studies covering all the modules of AORN Core Curriculum for RN First Assistants. (Surgeon or group employed students enrolled in Program II have more autonomy to focus on their specific areas of practice).

3. OR Fundamentals Course - Let's face it: you are walking into a position typically occupied by perioperative nurses with over 20 years experience and all eyes will rightfully be on you. So, we have accented your AORN Video Library subscription with even more customized assignments and Workbooks - essential for helping you to successfully navigate through the perioperative arena. This course was created not to ignore the education level you have already achieved, but instead to adequately provide you the basics for your introduction into the operating room.

14 Hour Wound Closure DVD and Practice Lab: After enrolling over the phone, we will send you the nation's premier wound closure workshop on basic to advanced wound closure techniques for home study. $300 worth of instruments and suture are provided for each student. With this outstanding learning tool, NP RNFA students come to their SutureStar™ Workshop well prepared and many have already attained expert levels in 23 basic to advanced wound closure techniques.

4. 6 Day SutureStar™ Workshop with 40 hours of lab: Instead of opening books all week, you will experience a full week of 'roll your sleeves up', hands-on, simulated, surgical training.* Students will participate in no less than 15 surgical cases from 'cut to close', concentrating on legally defensible techniques. On five of these cases, you will not only be the RNFA, but also the surgeon. This unique perspective will greatly heighten your participatory and anticipatory skills. And, since NIFA classes only allow 15 students per certified instructor, you're guaranteed to receive the personalized instruction you need. Altogether, during the week, you will be learning the 148 Surgical Skills Sets practiced by seasoned assistants to make your confidence soar. And, even more exciting, we've added Stryker lap chole classes and open, bridging vein harvesting and Guidant Endoscopic Vessel Harvesting classes to selected locations. The SutureStar Workshop has become so popular with NPs, that we are now averaging approximately 50% Nurse Practitioner RNFA students at most Workshops.

* At the end of the first day, NP students will attend VIP-NP Night where their knowledge of OR fundamentals and skill sets will be assessed. Here you will be given feedback as to what your strengths and weaknesses are and deficiencies. Deficiencies will be addressed and a personal action plan developed.

5. 120 Hour Clinical Internship: After your coursework and SutureStar Workshop you will have practiced for over 54 hours - basic to advanced first assisting techniques and mastered many of them before seeing your first patient as a NP RNFA Intern. You are now, not only ready, but eager to enter the perioperative nursing arena as a NP RNFA Intern. You will not feel intimidated. Rather, our goal, is that during your first week, it is obvious to all onlookers that you know what you are doing and are confidently moving toward mastery in this expanded and vital perioperative role. Though we encourage you to branch out into as many specialties as possible, you may access all your 120 clinical hours in your one specific area of practice.

6. RNFA Status recognized by your state BON: All graduates will receive a Certificate of Completion validating that they have successfully completed a formal RNFA program that addresses all modules of the AORN Core Curriculum for RN First Assistants, is accepted by the Competency and Credentialing Institute (CCI http://www.cc-institute.org/) and recognized by the nursing boards of all 50 states.

7. Our Tuition Special Saving you $1395 Ends Soon. Call now. Many of our SutureStar Workshops at the beginning of 2008 are already booked.

Call for information at: 1-800-922-7747 Press '1' (M-F 8am-4pm MST)
or email us at rnfa@nifa.com.