COURSE INFORMATION

This continuing education course continues the student’s education in the study of the theory and applications of Holistic and Integrative Nursing Sub-Specialty Practice. This comprehensive course moves from the more foundational theory and practice of the sub-specialty practice and provides for the study of the core elements of the heart of the specialty in clinical practice. Students will study issues related to obesity, nutrition and world-wide related nutritional issues. They will study major holistic theories and complementary modalities including mindfulness, meditation, movement, intention quantum theory and the research and implications for such in clinical holistic practice today.  The use of imagery in practice will be explored from a research outcomes perspective as well as an intervention in holistic practice. The role of the holistic nurse in developing a comprehensive body-mind-spirit plan of care and the use of the holistic nursing process is examined and implications for use in practice are discussed and reviewed. Students will then study therapeutic touch, it’s history, research outcomes and use in a holistic nursing practice setting for easing patients’ pain, stress and anxiety. A study and inquiry into energy healing and its various modalities is undertaken and students will examine the effectiveness and clinical outcomes of these modalities and learn how they can be incorporated into a holistic and integrative practice. The study of aromatherapy and the use of essential oils then is undertaken. Students will learn the essence of essential oils, how they are used in health care practices today, clinical effectiveness and outcomes and issues related to further education and credentialing for those interested in their use in practice. Aesthetics in nursing is examined in many dimensions and students will come away with a grounded understanding of its importance in inclusion of a holistic and integrative nursing practice.  The study of the peace end of life care is examined and holistic approaches to providing patients with peaceful transitions at the end of life are examined. Students will study the evolution from therapeutic communications to holistic communications and learn how to move forward in this important evolution in their own practices. Students then examine the newer role of the professional nurse coach and learn how the holistic nurse can also serve as a professional nurse coach to her/his clients in this sub-specialty practice. Course Code: HN 510. Contact hours of education: 50 hours.

This course is particularly designed for registered nurses would like to apply for Certification in Holistic & Integrative Health Care Practice by the American Institute of Health Care Professionals, Inc,.

Instructor/Course Author:  Dominick L. Flarey, Ph.D, MBA, RN,BC,

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E-mail: info@aihcp.org

TIME FRAME: You are allotted two years from the date of enrollment, to complete all of the courses in the Holistic & Integrative Health Care Practice program. There are no set time-frames, other than the two year allotted time. If you do not complete the courses within the two-year time-frame, you will be removed from the course and an “incomplete” will be recorded for you in our records. Also, if you would like to complete the courses after this two-year expiration time, you would need to register and pay the course tuition fee again.

TEXTBOOKS: There is one (1) required textbook for this course.

Dossey & Keegan’s Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice: A Handbook for Practice 8th Edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning; 8th edition (December 7, 2020) Burlington, MA.

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1284196526
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1284196528

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Reading/Study Assignment: this course covers Chapters Twelve (12) through Twenty-Four (24) in the required textbook.

GRADING: You must achieve a passing score of at least 70% to complete this course and receive the 50 hours of awarded continuing education credit. There are no letter grades assigned. You will receive notice of your total % score. Those who score below the minimum of 70% will be contacted by the and options for completing additional course work to achieve a passing score, will be presented.

BOARD APPROVALS: AIHCP is an approved provider of continuing education by the Florida Board of Nursing and the District of Columbia Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975. Access information

The American Institute of Health Care Professionals (The Provider) is approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses, Provider number # CEP 15595 for 50 Contact Hours.

This course, which is approved by the Florida State Board Of Nursing (CE Provider # 50-11975) also has the following Board of Nursing Approvals, for 50 contact hours of CE

The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Arkansas Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Georgia Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the South Carolina Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Professional Registered Nurses. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the New Mexico Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.

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ONLINE CLASSROOM RESOURCES AND TOOLS

* Examination Access: there is link to take you right to the online examination program where you can print out your examination and work with it. All examinations are formatted as “open book” tests. When you are ready, you can access the exam program at anytime and click in your responses to the questions. Full information is provided in the online classrooms.

* Student Resource Center: there is a link for access to a web page “Student Resource Center.” The Resource Center provides for easy access to all of our policies/procedures and additional information regarding applying for certification. We also have many links to many outside reference sites, such as online libraries that you may freely access.

* Online Evaluation: there is a link in the classroom where you may access the course evaluation. All students completing a course, must, without exception, complete the course evaluation.

* Faculty Access Information: you will have access to your instructor’s online resume/biography, as well as your instructor’s specific contact information.

* Additional Learning Materials: some faculty have prepared additional “readings” and /or brief lecture notes to enhance your experience. All of these are available in the online classrooms.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

1. Examine global health and disease risk factors in relation to our modern food supply.
2. Explore nutrition guidelines and the role of holistic nurses as educators and coaches.
3. Integrate mindful eating practices into holistic nursing practice.
4. Describe the benefits of exercise and mindful movement for populations with and without illness.
5. Contrast the differences between a compliance and an engagement model of adherence in a holistic fitness program.
6. Discuss how the nurse considers type, duration, and intensity of exercise and mindful movement uniquely for each person.
7. Describe how exercise and mindful movement interventions are part of an integrated approach to support healing of the whole-person body-mind-spirit environment.
8. Discuss the theory and development of the holistic caring process.
9. Identify ways to enhance the nursing process through holistic ways of thinking and being.
10. Discuss applications and implications of the holistic caring process in personal and professional settings, thereby translating theory into practice.
11. Describe the quantum level theory as it relates to health.
12. Discuss the role of intention in nursing.
13. Synthesize the role of energetic interconnectedness into a better understanding of self, others, and nursing practice.
14. Articulate a comprehensive conceptual model of the science behind body-mind interactions.
15. Explain the interconnections of mind modulation and the autonomic, endocrine, immune, and neuropeptide systems.
16. Recognize the implications of body-mind interactions for health.
17. Incorporate the knowledge of body-mind interactions in planning nursing interventions and self-care.
18. Explore select complementary and integrative healthcare practices.
19. Appreciate the role of the holistic nurse, in partnership with the client, developing a therapeutic plan of care.
20. Envision the integration of complementary and integrative healthcare practices into a therapeutic plan of care.
21. Define and contrast the different types of imagery.
22. Discuss the imagery process and the different theories of imagery.
23. Explain different imagery interventions.
24. Incorporate imagery interventions into your clinical practice.
25. Articulate the need for mindful procedural and nonprocedural touch.
26. Become more aware of your own feelings regarding touch.
27. Develop ways to ease patient anxiety, pain, and stress through touch.
28. Develop your abilities to become calm, focused and mindful before you use touch.
29. Examine the integration of energy healing into holistic nursing practice.
30. Explore the use of essential oils within a holistic nursing framework.
31. Examine evidence-based therapeutic properties of essential oils
32. Identify elements of a safe, effective aromatherapy program.
33. Describe aesthetics in healing.
34. Appreciate the interdisciplinary foundations of aesthetic expressions.
35. Examine evidence that supports the healing power of aesthetics.
36. Describe approaches to facilitate the integration of aesthetic expression strategies with self and others.
37. Create a self-development plan that includes the integration of aesthetic expression for self and for the healing environment.
38. Apply theories of grief, self-transcendence, and culture to assist the dying in peaceful and meaningful death.
39. Contribute to the dying person’s peace of mind through the nurse’s Presence and natural approaches.
40. Support the natural closing down of the body as it prepares for the final exhale
41. Utilize trends in end-of-life care to maximize the dying person’s holistic caring process.
42. Identify foundational theories and concepts in the development of therapeutic communication.
43. Describe contemporary nursing theories and concepts foundational to the development of holistic communication.
44. Identify and describe the concepts that distinguish holistic communication.
45. Integrate foundational holistic communication processes into clinical practice.
46. Integrate and utilize intention, centering, grounding, caring, healing, transcendent presence, and intuition in establishing a caring, healing field of communication.
47. Engage in reflective practices to increase self-awareness and personal growth.
48. Integrate and utilize intention, centering, presence, caring, and intuition in creating and maintaining a healing field of communication in daily life.
49. Define the differences between therapeutic and healing relationships.
50. Identify ways selected nursing theorists inform therapeutic and healing relationships.
51. Identify holistic nursing competencies in the nurse-patient relationship.
52. Gain insight into problematic relationships and how to manage them more effectively.
53. Define the term Professional Nurse Coach.
54. Compare the nursing process and the nurse coaching process.
55. Examine the theory of integrative nurse coaching and the five components of the integrative nurse coach leadership model.
56. Describe each of the four guiding principles of Motivational Interviewing (MI).
57. Identify eight foundational assumptions of appreciative inquiry (AI).
58. Describe the 4-D Cycle of appreciative inquiry.
59. Describe the components and principles of cultural competence.
60. Discuss cultural influences on beliefs and explanatory systems related to health and illness.
61. Identify appropriate patterns, challenges, and needs of patients in the cultural domain.
62. Explore interventions that reflect cultural competence.

COURSE CONTENT

• Obesity: A Current Global Nutrition Crisis
• Eating to Promote Health Across the Life-Span
• Exercise and Movement
• Role of the Nurse in Exercise and Movement
• Exercise and Innate Healing Mechanisms
• Current Issues in Exercise and Innate Healing
• Mindful Movement
• Adherence in Mindful Movement
• Implications of Mindful Movement
• Holistic Caring Process: Background
• Nursing Process and the Holistic Caring Process
• Implications of the Processes
• Health Policy
• Energetic Interconnectedness: Shifting Paradigm
• Interconnectedness: Always Interacting
• Practice and Research in Energetic Interconnectedness
• Psychoneuroimmunology
• Stress and Health
• Trauma
• Emotions
• Personality and Wellness
• Social Support
• Stress and Disease
• Sleep
• Epigenetics
• Microbiome
• Quantum Physics
• Complementary and Integrative Health Care
• Mindfulness and Meditation
• Waking Up Awareness
• Cultivating Conscious Mindful Awareness
• Mindfulness and Global Ethics
• Mindfulness, Meditation and Awareness Practices
• Living and Practicing Mindful Awareness as a Holistic Nurse
• Imagery
• Theory and Research in Imagery
• Utilizing the Power of the Imagination in Health Care
• Clinical Techniques in Imagery
• Holistic Caring Process
• Touch and Hand-Mediated Therapies
• Touching Styles
• Body-Mind Communications
• Overview of Selected Touch Interventions and Techniques
• Holistic Caring Process for Touch Therapies
• Energy Healing
• The Practice of Energy Healing in Holistic Nursing
• Overview of the Practice of Energy Healing
• Future Research in Energy Healing
• Aromatherapy
• History of Aromatherapy
• Taxonomy and Chemistry of Aromatherapy
• Therapeutic Properties of Essential Oils
• Commonly Used Essential Oils
• Essential Oils Applications
• Holistic Aromatherapy
• Aromatherapy Credentialing
• Health Care Aromatherapy Programs
• Elements of a Health Care Aromatherapy Program
• Aesthetics in Holistic Nursing
• Background of Aesthetics in Nursing
• Nature and Movement
• The Labyrinth
• Reflective Writing
• Peaceful Transitions at the End of Life
• Theoretical Frameworks
• Meditative Approaches at the End of Life
• Aromatherapy at the End of Life
• The Body Shutting Down
• Trends in End of Life Care
• Allow Natural Death
• Evolving from Therapeutic to Holistic Communication
• Theory and Research
• Nursing Theory Related to Holistic Communication
• Therapeutic Communication Skills
• Distinguishing Characteristics of a Holistic Orientation to Communication
• Tools and Practices to Enhance Holistic Communication
• Caring, Healing Responses to Frequently Asked Questions and Statements
• Relationships
• Theory and Research Related to Relationships
• Relationship Theories
• Therapeutic Relationships in Holistic Nursing
• Nurse-Patient Relationship
• Relationships to Other Living Beings
• Spirituality and Relationship to a Higher Power
• Qualities that Enhance Relationships
• Disorders in Relationships
• Nurse Coaching
• The Evolution of the Field of Health Coaching and Nurse Coaching
• The Art and Science of Nurse Coaching
• Nurse Coaching and Change
• The Nursing Process and the Nurse Coaching Process
• The Theory of Integrative Nurse Coaching and the Integrative Nurse Coach Leadership Model
• The Nurse Coach Five-Step Process
• Case Studies in Nurse Coaching