The Loyola environment is rich with opportunities to further one's career and skills in nursing.

Clinical Ladder

All of our nurses can advance in the Clinical Ladder, designed to recognize professional development for nurses who prefer to remain in direct patient care.

Find out more about our Nursing Clinical Ladder

Continuing Education

At Loyola we offer a variety of CE offerings for Registered Nurses and professional staff. These programs are open to nurses and student nurses from surrounding institutions.

All day and half day continuing education programs are developed to meet the needs of each service line and their patient population. These programs are held monthly during the fall/winter/spring, usually on a Saturday.

Specific to Loyola patient care issues, a one-hour CE series, "Lunch and Learn", is offered during the week and provides education on topics that nurses encounter with all populations of patients. Multi-disciplinary and nursing speakers address issues related to evidence based care. These programs are video taped and provided as a "Breakfast and Learn" for the Night Shift. Departments may request these videos for viewing on their respective units.

Nurses also have the opportunity to attend CE conferences offered by the Continuing Medical Education Department.

Education Stipend

Funds are now available to Loyola Nurses for reimbursement of certification, recertification, conference and speaker expenses. Please click on link below for more information and complete application packet.

Education Stipend Packet (243 KB)

Certification

In an effort to promote certification, the Nursing Education and Professional Development Council created a Certification Resource Table for nurses. This table includes the name of the certification, governing body, membership and additional requirements, review course availability, test information, duration of the certification, recertification information and the name of a LUMC resource contact.

Please click on this link for the Certification Resource Table (604KB)

The link below require Microsoft PowerPoint to open and view.

New A How-to-Guide for Certification

Niehoff School of Nursing

Loyola's Niehoff School of Nursing is closely aligned with Loyola University Health System (LUHS). The dean's office and graduate school are located on the LUHS medical center campus in Maywood, facilitating opportunities for learning, teaching and joint research projects.

Click on this link to visit the school's Web page: Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing

Quality Projects

Loyola has long been committed to the quality of patient care and patient safety. We prioritize and coordinate performance improvement activities across the entire institution through our Center for Clinical Effectiveness. Many Loyola nurses lead and participate in quality projects such as these below. Visit our Center for Clinical Effectiveness (CCE) page for more information.