Holistic Nursing

The Holistic Nurse is an instrument of healing to promote and optimize Health and Wellness by focusing on the whole person. Holistic nurses aim to promote a union of the body, mind, emotion, spirit, energy, and environment. The holistic nurse incorporates therapeutic relationships, core values, ethics, principles, and modalities for self-care. Holistic nursing care can be applied in all healthcare settings in clinical/non-clinical practice.
 

The holistic nursing sequence is designed to draw on nursing knowledge and coach practicing nurses across all specialties to apply the principles of holistic nursing while incorporating complementary alternative and integrative medicine approaches. It is based on the American Holistic Nursing Association's core values and curriculum. The program can be completed in three semesters and consists of three (3) credit courses typically taken in the last three semesters of your master's program.

Highlights

• Opportunity to learn from experienced, nationally renowned faculty who are both academicians and practicing Holistic Nurses Ability to develop specialized expertise in Holistic Nursing and apply modalities.
• Opportunities for clinical placements with practicing Holistic Nurses.
• Opportunities for self-reflection, self-development, and self-care. Pathways for self-healing are applied throughout the curriculum.
• Curriculum education incorporates holistic philosophies, theories, ethics holistic nursing scope of standards and practice current trends holistic caring process and interprofessional practice nurse coaching.
• Issues on diversity culture ethics safety and quality of care are incorporated into the holistic nursing curriculum.
• Education preparation for national certification of holistic nursing practice.
• Evidence accumulating in the field of psychoneuroimmunology, holistic nursing, complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine are appraised and related to advanced holistic nursing practice.

Goals

• Apply theoretical knowledge of holistic nursing and (CAIH) (complementary, alternative, and integrative) approaches to wellness, health, illness, and disease.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the therapeutic relationship between the client’s values, spirituality, health beliefs and practices, health care disparity issues, culture and diversity, and the use of complementary, and alternative modalities.
• Develop advanced holistic nursing approaches that reflect cultural competence, advocacy for clients with health care disparities, provision of safe, high-quality care, and evidence-based practice.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how authenticity, intuition, consciousness, presence, centering relationships, unconditional acceptance, and intentionality are integral to the healing process.
• Comprehend the complexity of holistic nursing practice and how education dissemination of research policy and advocacy shape and impact the holistic nursing profession.
• Reconnect with the ideology of innate healing as intrinsic to life and nursing.

Practicum Opportunities

All practicum placements are arranged by the Program Faculty; Supervision is provided by licensed clinicians at diverse practicum sites.