The Nurse Aid short term certificate require you to have 4 credit hours. This certificate would aid you in learning how to interact with patients in an empathetic, professional manner. It would also teach you how to interact with other health care employees to implement and carry out excellent patient care, with a safe, healthy work environment. This certificate would greatly improve my skills as a healthcare professional, and help me reach my goals of becoming a nurse. For the second short term certificate I chose Exercise Specialist. This short term certificate teaches you how to create effective exercise programs for clients. It also teaches you how to conduct fitness assessments for your clients, and determine their needs from there. I think this is a great short term certificate for those who wish to be personal trainers, but I personally wouldn’t pursue this due to the fact that isn’t needed for my career