POCUS Certificate Program for Nurses and APPs

This is a longitudinal point-of-care ultrasound training program for nurses and advanced practice practitioners (APPs). Learners train with our emergency ultrasound team on regular scan shifts, build a portfolio of quality reviewed scans in the application areas their role requires, and finish with a certificate of completion and a signed competency record.

Who it is for

• Licensed RN, NP, or other APP with an active California license

• A clinical role where POCUS is used: ALERT and rapid response nurses, vascular access, ICU, and ED nursing

• Support from your manager or department, confirming you will scan in your role after training

How it works

• Join the division's scheduled scan shifts in the Emergency Department, scanning real patients alongside division faculty and fellows

• Up to 100 hours of scan shifts, spread over up to six months

• Choose your application areas from: airway ultrasound; lung ultrasound; focused cardiac ultrasound; E-FAST; renal, bladder, and gallbladder ultrasound; vascular ultrasound (DVT compression, aorta, IVC); and the RUSH exam

• Complete 25 to 50 quality-reviewed scans in each area you choose

• Tailored to your role: if your position requires specific ultrasound training, we build the program around what you need.

• Covers the ALERT training: this program teaches the same application areas and uses the same competency sign-off as ALERT nurse POCUS training, so graduates have already completed training that encompasses what the ALERT program requires.

• Final sign-off uses the ALERT POCUS Competency Form, completed area by area

What you receive

• A certificate of completion from the UCI Emergency Ultrasound Division naming the areas completed and your scan counts

• Your completed competency validation record for your employer's file

• This is a certificate program, not a CME course. The certificate documents training and competency assessment by the division. It does not grant clinical privileges; practice stays under your own institution's standardized procedures.

Cost

• $5,000 per learner

• Enrolling as a group? When several learners from one department or hospital come through together, talk to us about a group rate.

Interested?

Full program details for the POCUS Certificate Program for Nurses and APPs: please contact the UCI Emergency Ultrasound Division through the same program-details route used for the Sabbatical Fellowship, and mention the POCUS Certificate Program for Nurses and APPs.