Nursing Unit Clerk Certificate is a certificate in Health Sciences programme taught at University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, Canada. The programme runs for 6.5 months, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 9,268 per total for local students.
This full-time certificate, completed in about six and a half months, prepares students for work as nursing unit clerks handling the administrative and liaison duties that keep a hospital or care-facility unit running. Twelve courses cover professionalism and communication, unit clerk fundamentals, two levels of medical terminology and pharmacology, admissions/transfers/discharges and patient records, diagnostics, laboratory and surgical orders, specialty nursing areas, and medical imaging, closing with a four-week practicum at an assigned work site. Classroom instruction is delivered online at scheduled times, Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00 am to 2:30 pm, with intakes in January and September. Students build skills in communicating with healthcare teams, prioritizing tasks in a fast-paced unit, identifying medications, and processing physician orders. Applicants must meet the entrance criteria listed in UFV's Academic Calendar, pass a criminal record screening, and provide current immunization records before the practicum. The certificate is eligible for financial aid. It suits people looking for a direct, relatively short route into hospital unit administration without pursuing a longer clinical nursing credential.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: UFV's Academic Calendar sets out the Nursing Unit Clerk Certificate's entrance requirements: applicants must meet UFV's Degree/diploma-level English language proficiency requirement, and must have B.C. secondary school graduation or equivalent, or be at least 19 years old on the first day of classes. That English standard is satisfied by an IELTS Academic overall score of 6.5 with no band below 6.0, a TOEFL iBT score of 88 with no section below 20, PTE Academic 61 with 60 or higher in Writing, CAEL 70+, MELAB 85+, CanTEST 4.5 Listening/Reading and 4.0 Writing, or a Duolingo English Test score of 110 or higher. Beyond the academic conditions, the program requires a satisfactory Criminal Record Check and Vulnerable Sector Screening, and a health assessment signed by a health professional confirming mental and emotional wellness, reflecting British Columbia's health-authority rules for healthcare placements. Intakes run in January and September.
Application Details
Start Date:January and September
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply directly to UFV: applications for Fall (September) 2027 entry open 1 October 2026, for Winter (January) 2027 entry opened 1 May 2026, and for Summer (May) 2027 entry open 1 October 2026; UFV publishes no closing date for any of these and instead admits many programmes strictly in application-date order once every required document has arrived, so applying soon after opening matters more than any deadline. Grade 12 students may apply from 1 October of their graduating year and must send final transcripts by 3 August. International applicants use UFV International's own windows - 1 October to 31 May for Fall, 1 May to 31 October for Winter and 1 October to 1 March for Summer - and are likewise assessed on a rolling, first-arrived basis until each programme fills. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
