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Nursing Skills Refresher and Confidence Lab
Rebuild bedside confidence with supervised simulation practice: catheters, IV skills, injections, wound care, sterile technique and assessment.
4.9 · 50 Google reviews- Length2 to 12 hours, depending on the option
- DeliveryIn person, simulation laboratory
- LanguagesEnglish, Haitian Creole, Spanish
Illustration of what this course covers, not a photograph of our centre. Visit us on Lake Ellenor Drive, Orlando, to see the real classroom.
Overview
About this course
A hands-on workshop for nursing students, graduates, new nurses and experienced nurses who want additional practice with essential bedside skills. Participants practise in a supportive skills laboratory using mannequins, simulation arms and task trainers. There are no live patients.
It is for nurses who know the steps but whose hands have slowed: after a career break, before a practical assessment at interview, or when moving into a setting with different equipment. It is practice time with feedback. It carries no regulatory weight, and the sections below say exactly where its limits are.
Curriculum
What you will learn
The concrete skills covered, so you can compare this against any other course you are considering.
- Hand hygiene, PPE donning and doffing, and maintaining a sterile field
- Urinary catheter insertion on task trainers, catheter care and output measurement
- Peripheral IV cannulation on training arms: vein selection, angle, advancement and securement
- Injection technique on manikins, including subcutaneous and intramuscular landmarking
- Wound assessment and dressing change using aseptic non-touch technique
- Manual vital signs by cuff and stethoscope, and a focused assessment
- Focused documentation of what you did and what you found
- Handover and escalation rehearsal using SBAR
Who it is for
Is this the right course for you?
If more than one of these describes you, it probably is. If the other side describes you better, call us and we will point you elsewhere.
This is probably right for you if
- Current nursing students who want additional skills practice
- Nursing graduates preparing for the NCLEX or employment
- New nurses preparing to enter bedside practice
- LPNs and RNs returning to clinical practice
- Nurses transitioning into a new specialty
- Internationally educated nurses preparing for U.S. nursing practice
Another course would serve you better if
- You have a Board order, a probationary condition or a disciplinary requirement.
- Your licence has been inactive for five years or more and you need a Board-approved remedial course to reactivate it.
- Your licence is null and void.
- You need continuing-education hours, a BLS card or a competency sign-off for an employer.
- You need supervised clinical hours in a real facility.
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What our students say
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Returning to practice
Why skills fade, and what comes back first
People step away from bedside nursing for ordinary reasons: parental leave, caring for a relative, injury, credentialing delays, a spell in a non-clinical role. What almost everyone reports on the way back is the same — not that they have forgotten nursing, but that their hands have got slow and their nerve has gone.
That matches the research on skill retention. A 2019 review of simulation training notes that technical skills can begin to deteriorate within about two months when they are not used or practised, and a 2021 systematic review found procedures learned in simulation declining over the following months in most studies. Extend that to cannulation or dressing technique and the pattern is familiar: you know the steps, but your hands have lost the sequence and the tempo.
Equipment familiarity fades for a different reason: devices and electronic charting move on while you are away. So does composure while being watched. Performing with a preceptor or an interview panel standing over you is a distinct skill, and often the first to go.
Clinical reasoning tends not to fade. Assessment logic, putting a deteriorating patient ahead of a demanding one, knowing when something is simply wrong — these last. Returning nurses are rarely relearning how to think; they are relearning how to move. Supervised practice addresses that. It cannot certify competence, replace clinical hours in a regulated programme, or change your licence status.
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What this is not
This is practice time. It is not a credential, and it carries no regulatory weight.
Jude Health Institute is not accredited, not state-approved and not a Board-approved remedial provider. Attendance satisfies no Board order, disciplinary requirement, probationary condition, reinstatement condition or reactivation requirement. It produces no competency sign-off that an employer or the Board must accept, and it does not guarantee employment.
Three different things get loosely called a refresher, and confusing them costs people money. If a Board order or licensure letter requires you to complete remediation, nothing here will discharge that obligation.
- Practice time, not a credential
- Not accredited, not state-approved, not a remedial provider
- Satisfies no Board order or licence condition
- No competency sign-off and no guaranteed job
Board orders
If you have a Board order, do this instead
Do not enrol here to satisfy a Board requirement. The steps here are the ones that protect you, and none of them involves us.
The Board’s contact details are on its website, linked in the sources below. Ask for its answer in writing: a written confirmation is what you will rely on if the question is ever raised again. This is general information, not legal advice.
- Do not enrol here to satisfy a Board requirement
- Get the Board’s answer in writing
- General information, not legal advice
Your licence
How Florida licence reinstatement actually works
Florida RN and LPN licences renew every two years under section 464.013 of the Florida Statutes, which lets the Board require continuing education by rule. A licence not renewed by its expiration date becomes delinquent, and then null and void two years after expiration. The Board states that a null and void licence cannot be reactivated: you must reapply and meet current requirements.
The critical provision for inactive licences is Rule 64B9-6.003. A licensee with no active licence in good standing elsewhere, whose Florida licence has been inactive for five years or more, must complete a nursing remedial course under Rule 64B9-3.0025, with a clinical component appropriate to the licence level. That is the Board-approved course of 80 didactic and 96 clinical hours, not a workshop.
On the examination route, section 464.008 requires an applicant who fails the NCLEX three consecutive times to complete a Board-approved remedial course before re-examination. On the disciplinary route, the Board may impose penalties under section 456.072, including remedial education, continuing education, re-examination or supervised practice. Where impairment is alleged, referral is to the Intervention Project for Nurses.
Jude Health Institute has no role in any of these pathways. This was checked on 18 September 2026; rules change, so verify anything that affects you directly with the Board.
Back to work
Interviews, skills stations and new settings
Returning to practice is a paperwork problem and a confidence problem at once. The paperwork belongs to the Board and to employers’ credentialing teams. The confidence problem is what practice time addresses, and it matters because nursing interviews are often no longer conversations alone. Employers commonly use medication calculation tests, scenario questions and observed skills stations — a dressing change, an IV set-up, a safe transfer — and candidates who have not touched the equipment in years can underperform relative to their real clinical judgement.
Moving between settings raises it differently. Acute care, long-term care, rehabilitation, home health and community nursing each demand a different skill mix and pace. A nurse with fifteen years in intensive care can be unsteady on wound care in long-term care, and the reverse is just as true.
No workshop can promise an outcome. Hiring rests with employers, licensure rests with the Board, and competence is judged by those who supervise you in practice.
Choose a format
Options and lengths
The same teaching, in the shape that fits your week. An advisor will help you pick if you are unsure.
Individual Skills Lab
2 hours
199
One skills category: catheter, IV, injections, wound care, or assessment and documentation
Nursing Skills Confidence Lab
6 hours
597
Catheter insertion, peripheral IV, injection techniques, basic wound care, sterile technique, documentation and communication
Private Nursing Skills Session
2 hours, one-to-one
199
Instruction on skills you select, with an individual practice plan
Complete Nursing Skills Refresher
12 hours over two days
999
Full skills-laboratory experience, repeated practice, skills workbook and certificate of completion
Before you start
Requirements and what to bring
What the state sets, and what is simply practical. Anything set by the state should be confirmed against the source, because it changes.
What to bring
- Photo identification, and your nursing licence number if you hold one.
- Scrubs or comfortable clothing, closed-toe shoes, hair tied back, short nails and no loose jewellery.
- A stethoscope if you own one, a notebook and your own calculator.
- Any task you want prioritised, sent to us ahead of time in writing.
Before you book
- Ask for written confirmation of the date, time, location, fee and refund terms.
- A certificate of completion records that you attended. It is not a competency sign-off, and it carries no CE credit.
- If a Board order or licence condition applies to you, read the section on Board orders first.
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What we are and are not
Published in full rather than buried in a footer. If another provider will not tell you where its limits are, that is worth noticing.
Common questions
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers to what students ask us most, including the ones other providers avoid.
Not answered here? Ask us directly. If we hear a question more than once it ends up on this page.
(407) 606-7964Will this satisfy my Board requirement?
No. If the Board, a Final Order or a probation condition requires remediation or any course, this workshop does not satisfy it. Only a provider on the Board’s approved remedial courses list can, and only for the requirement it was approved for.
Can this reinstate my licence?
No. Reinstatement, reactivation and reapplication are decided by the Florida Board of Nursing under Chapter 464 of the Florida Statutes and Chapter 64B9 of the Florida Administrative Code. No workshop and no private provider can reinstate a licence or shorten that process.
Is Jude Health Institute accredited or state-approved?
No, and nothing on this site claims otherwise. Check any provider’s approval yourself on the Florida Board of Nursing’s own website before you pay anyone.
Do I get continuing-education credit?
No CE credit is claimed for this workshop. Florida CE must come from providers approved by the Board or by a recognised national body. If you need CE hours for renewal, get them from an approved provider and check that approval before you pay.
Will I get a competency sign-off for an employer?
No. No outside provider can sign off competence on an employer’s behalf. Employers assess competence themselves, through orientation, preceptorship and their own validation. You receive a certificate of completion, which records that you attended.
Does this include BLS or ACLS certification?
No. Rehearsing a sequence on a manikin is practice, not certification. BLS and ACLS cards come from recognised training organisations, and employers check the issuing body, so book those separately.
Where this comes from
Sources
Every regulatory statement on this page traces to a primary source. We would rather you checked them than took our word for it — and requirements change, so confirm your own before you rely on anything here.
- Florida Board of Nursingapproved remedial course providers (opens in a new tab)
- Florida Administrative Code R. 64B9-3.0025remedial course standards: 80 didactic and 96 clinical hours (opens in a new tab)
- Florida Administrative Code R. 64B9-6.003inactive licence reactivation and the five-year trigger (opens in a new tab)
- Florida Statutes s. 464.013renewal, inactive status and continuing education (opens in a new tab)
- Florida Statutes s. 464.008remedial course after three NCLEX failures (opens in a new tab)
- Florida Statutes s. 464.018disciplinary grounds and penalties (opens in a new tab)
- Florida Statutes s. 456.072remedial education, CE, re-examination and supervision (opens in a new tab)
- Florida Administrative Code R. 64B9-8.006disciplinary guidelines (opens in a new tab)
- Florida Board of Nursingrenewal, delinquent and null and void status (opens in a new tab)
- Florida Board of Nursingcontinuing education requirements (opens in a new tab)
- Florida Board of Nursingcontact details (opens in a new tab)
- Intervention Project for NursesFlorida’s impaired practitioner programme (opens in a new tab)
- PubMed CentralSullivan et al. (2019), skill decay and refresher training in simulation (opens in a new tab)
- PubMed CentralLegoux et al. (2021), systematic review of skill retention after simulation (opens in a new tab)
- Rutgers School of Nursinga university RN skills refresher, for comparison (opens in a new tab)
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