Over the past 27 years, Continuing Education in Nursing and Health Care has enjoyed a stellar reputation and many successes as its programs educated over 25,000 nurses and related health care professionals.  Take a look at the highlights. 

• Role Excellence: The Post-Master’s Certificate in Nursing Administration is in its 24th year.  To date, over 900 nurses have taken the course.

• The Clinical Research Course, in its 9th year, has educated over 675 participants.

• The value of the Nurse Manager Certificate Course has been recognized by many local employers. It has been held on site for such organizations as Catholic Health Initiatives, Fitzgerald Mercy Hospital, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Temple University Hospital, Virtua Health Systems, Lower Bucks Hospital, A.I. duPont Hospital for Children, and Deborah Heart and Lung Center.  More than 800 managers have taken the course.

• In 1997 a Congregational Parish Nurse Program was developed as an interfaith model recognizing and incorporating a variety of belief systems.  It ran for three years and over 50 nurses attended the week-long residential program.  A Congregational/Parish Nurse facilitates the health of a congregation and in so doing reclaims the healing ministry of the church/synagogue.

• The American Association for the History of Nursing's annual conference was held at Villanova University in September 2000.  This national conference is a forum for sharing historical nursing research.

• In October of 1999 and 2000, an annual educator conference was held in cooperation with The American Nurses Association and sponsored by Villanova University and The State University of New Jersey Rutgers College of Nursing.  A prior version of this conference was held in Washington, DC in 1993. It was sponsored by the Tri-State Consortium – Rutgers, Pace University and Villanova University.  In 2004, the conference was co-sponsored with Rutgers University College of Nursing and held in Atlanta.

• September 2000 brought the conference Women with Disabilities: Quality of Care/Quality of Life to Philadelphia. Supported by a grant from the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation and sponsored by Villanova University, this program was designed to bring together women with disabilities and their caregivers, health policy makers, those making reimbursement decisions, health care providers and agencies and associations that address or represent women with disabilities.

• In June of 2006, an international conference, Nursing Education on the Move: Technology, Creativity and Innovation in collaboration with and endorsed by the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning, was held in Philadelphia. Close to 500 nurses working in learning resource centers or with clinical simulations attended.

• In June 2007 the NLN Immersion in Evidence-based Nursing Education was co-sponsored. It offered a week long personal immersion experience in one of three tracks; evidence-based teaching, curriculum development or pedagogical research. Over 75 educators participated in this inaugural program.