Stephen Downes

Overview of an e-learning program in critical care nursing set up by Durham College in Ontario. The program has three major components:

• Six interactive theoretical courses offered via the Internet;
• Practical experience in an intensive critical care simulation lab;
• Hands-on preceptored (monitored) experience in an intensive care unit (ICU).

This is a combination we will see more frequently, as educational institutions especially recognize that learning online is best supplemented with simulations and real-world experience in authentic environments.