Certificate of Completions (CoC): The CoC must be submitted directly by the School AFTER the applicant(s) meets the program completion requirements. Certificates submitted or signed before the program completion date for graduation will not be accepted.

• It is highly recommended to have an electronic school seal for the CoCs.
• Send Certificates of Completion via email to pla2@pla.in.gov.
  • For digital submission, please have each certificate in a separate PDF file, named by the Graduate’s name and followed by the school code or abbreviation.
  • Ex: Jane Doe_IU_12202025.pdf
• Include a CoC coversheet that includes each program type and each student’s name. Contact information for the school in case of a missing item or other errors.
• Do not send CoCs via U.S. mail. Preferred method is electronic submission.

• Documentation: Focuses on the roles, importance and impact of health care documentation, while providing health care professionals with an understanding of how to complete adequate and effective health care documentation.
  • Example: "Effective and Efficient Documentation in Home Health Care"
• Professionalism: Focuses on cultivating accountability, ethical practice, and leadership to enhance patient care and workplace civility. Examples include courses on legal liability, conflict resolution, cultural competence, and maintaining professional boundaries, ensuring nurses uphold high standards, safety, and evidence-based practice.
  • Example: "Managing Difficult Conversations,"
• Impaired nursing/ substance abuse: Focuses on recognizing substance use disorders (SUDs), understanding legal/ethical obligations, and promoting rehabilitation over punishment. Key indicators include drug diversion, altered behavior, and declining performance, with CE offering strategies for early intervention and colleague support.
  • Example: Impairment in the Workplace: Substance Abuse
• HIPPA: Covers fundamental rules, protecting patient data, and recognizing social media pitfalls.
  • Example: HIPPA Privacy Associate Course
• Pharmacology (properties and actions of medications): Focuses on updating knowledge regarding the properties (pharmacokinetics) and actions (pharmacodynamics) of medications to enhance patient safety, particularly with high-risk drugs, complex drug regimens.
  • Example: Safe and Effective Pain Care: A Comprehensive Guide for Opioid Prescribing
• Medication administration (how you administer medications): 10 rights of medication administration (e.g., patient, medication, dose, route, time, documentation, education, refusal, assessment, evaluation) to minimize errors.
  • Example: Medication administration: The Five/Six rights
• Self-care/ Coping: Focuses on building resilience, preventing burnout, and managing stress through evidence-based strategies like mindfulness, emotional regulation, and physical wellness.
  • Example: Diminishing Burnout: Self-care + Wellness
• Professional boundaries: Focuses on maintaining a therapeutic, trust-based relationship, defining the limits between a nurse’s professional power and patient vulnerability. Courses cover identifying "red flags” such as self-disclosure, gifting, and social media contact—to prevent boundary crossings, violations, and sexual misconduct.
  • Example: Professional Boundaries and Sexual Misconduct in Medicine
• Teamwork: Focuses on enhancing patient safety and care quality through improved communication, role clarity, mutual support, and leadership. Key topics include interprofessional collaboration, conflict resolution, and shared decision-making.
  • Example: Innovations in Teamwork for Health Care
• Delegation: Nursing is a critical, legal, and professional process where a registered nurse (RN) transfers responsibility for the performance of a task to another individual (such as an LPN or UAP) while retaining accountability for the outcome. "Five Rights of Delegation" (Right Task, Circumstance, Person, Direction/Communication, and Supervision) to improve patient safety, efficiency, and team collaboration.
  • Example: Nursing Delegation to Unlicensed Care Providers
• Emergency Procedures: Focuses on developing rapid assessment, critical thinking, and technical skills necessary for high-stakes, time-constrained environments. These courses enable nurses to maintain competency in life-saving interventions, manage specialized, high-acuity patients, and respond effectively to disasters.
  • Example: Managing Psychiatric Emergencies
• Critical thinking: Strengthening clinical judgment, patient safety, and decision-making by teaching how to analyze, interpret, and evaluate patient data rather than just performing tasks. These courses focus on recognizing clinical changes, prioritizing care, and avoiding cognitive biases through simulation and case studies.
  • Example: Honing Your Critical Thinking Skills
• Nurse practice act/ scope of practice: Ensures updated knowledge, safety, and adherence to legal standards.
  • Example: Putting Nursing Scope and Standards into Practice
• Patient safety / APRN- safe prescribing practices: Focuses on reducing medication errors, preventing drug diversion, mitigating the risks of opioid misuse, and managing complex pharmacological therapies.
  • Example: Safe and Effective Prescribing of Controlled Substances