Certificate in Holistic and Integrative Health
34.0 Contact Hours
Target Audience:
Nurses, healthcare professionals, and interested individuals
Purpose/Goal:
The goal of this certificate program is to provide the learner with an overview of holistic and integrative therapeutic modalities and their role in health and healing.
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Ayurvedic Medicine: Ancient Foundations of Health Care
3.0 Contact Hours
Ayurvedic medicine is a highly sophisticated religion, philosophy, and system of medicine that has been practiced in India for over 2,500 years. As with other forms of complementary and alternative medicine, it focuses on the whole individual and one’s relationship to one’s environment. Health, vitality, and longevity are achieved through a balance within the body and between the body and the external environment.
Energy Healing
2.0 Contact Hours
The old paradigms of health care are shifting as a growing number of researchers, physicians, nurses, and other health practitioners embrace a new view that includes energy healing. Traditional healers have practiced energy healing methods for centuries and viewed the body as a complex energy system. With mounting scientific evidence now supporting the efficacy of ancient healing systems, the health care community is combining traditional methods of energy healing with modern medicine. This course will provide an overview of the types of energy and practices used in energy healing.
Healing Effects of Physical Activity and Movement
3.0 Contact Hours
Physical activity and movement are essential elements of any program designed for obtaining or maintaining health and well-being. While most individuals associate physical activity with aerobics, many activities comprise a well-rounded and interesting physical fitness and movement program. This course will examine the physical and psychological effects of physical activity and movement and describe ways to help initiate a fitness/movement program.
Healing Elements of Meditation
2.0 Contact Hours
Although there are many ways to meditate and many different forms of meditation, they all share the characteristic of intentionally training a person's attention and concentration. Meditation practices are used by diverse cultures, are rooted in the traditions of the great religions, and have been practiced for thousands of years to promote healing. This course explores the practice of meditation and describes the various types of meditation.
Health and the Human Spirit
2.5 Contact Hours
Spirituality plays an important role in health and healing. This course will explore the forms and expressions of spirituality; discuss culture and its relationship to spirituality; examine the relationship between spirituality and aging; explain spiritual interests within the health care system; describe the role of spiritual care providers in administering spiritual care; and describe the relationship between spirituality and health conditions, therapeutic interventions, and healing environments.
Holistic and Integrative Health: An Introduction
1.5 Contact Hours
The past several decades have brought tremendous growth in the numbers of health care facilities and providers offering integrative health care training and services. Consumers in the United States use these complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies in greater numbers than ever before. Why is this occurring? How do integrative medicine and traditional medicine differ in their approach to care from conventional Western medicine? What integrative health care practices do practitioners and patients use?
Holistic Stress Management
3.0 Contact Hours
Stress affects each of us every day and while some of us rise to the occasion, others experience a myriad of physiological, psychological, and spiritual effects. How we cope with stress can determine the current and future state of our health and well-being. Our bodies react to the signals sent to us by our brains during stressful episodes and these signals affect every system, especially the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems. There are many holistic stress management techniques including self-awareness, cognitive restructuring, effective communication, guided imagery, social support, art therapy, and journaling. This course describes the stress response and explores holistic stress management techniques.
Humor and Health
3.5 Contact Hours
How many times have you felt better after laughing? Humor and laughter make people feel alive and bring a unique perspective to life. They relieve stress and connect people to one another. Humor is a complex phenomenon and an essential part of human nature. Anthropologists have never found a culture or society that did not have humor as a part of it. This course examines humor and its effects on health as well as exploring ways to incorporate humor into one's personal and professional life.
Music Therapy and Sound Healing
2.0 Contact Hours
In an age where people increasingly turn to holistic methods of healing, music therapy and sound healing have entered mainstream health care and can be used successfully with people of all ages and disabilities. This course examines sound and music as well as its impact on health.
Nutrition: An Integrative Approach
3.5 Contact Hours
What we eat profoundly impacts our health and well-being, yet many of us eat when we are rushed; we don't know where our food originated; we eat toxic, irradiated, or genetically altered foods; and we eat more than we need. How can we revise our eating habits and become more conscious of what we eat, why we eat it, and how it is prepared? This course examines the concept of holistic nutrition and examines the profound impact of food on our health.
Place and Space: Healing Environments
3.5 Contact Hours
Health care providers can assist clients with their healing process through the creation of healing environments - spaces that support the individual's inner healer and utilize the environment to maximize its healing effects. This course will provide an overview of the elements of healing environment and its effect on health and describe how to create a healing environment.
Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork Healing Therapies
2.0 Contact Hours
Health care is evolving and integrating the healing therapies of alternative and allopathic medicine. Therapeutic massage and bodywork healing methods are being integrated in many health care organizations. This course will describe somatic and musculoskeletal therapies (therapeutic massage, which includes Swedish massage, sports massage, Esalen massage, neuromuscular massage therapy, and Aston patterning); Eastern, meridian-based, and point therapies (acupressure, shiatsu, Jin Shin Jyutsu, and reflexology); energy-based therapies (Therapeutic Touch, Reiki, and Healing Touch); emotional bodywork (Rolfing and Hellerwork); and manipulative therapies (chiropractic and osteopathy).
Traditional Chinese Medicine: An Ancient Approach to Healing
2.5 Contact Hours
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is one of the oldest professional continuously practiced medical systems in the world, with origins dating back more than 3,000 years. TCM emphasizes the holistic view of the human being and encompasses many different treatment modalities such as acupuncture, acupressure, herbal medicine, and Qigong.
The concepts of alternative, holistic, and integrative medicine have their roots in various healing traditions that have been around for thousands of years. Yet, this philosophy is receiving much attention today due to the changing health care climate, a growing need for a "different" health care system, and a recognition of the benefits of combing the external, physical, and technologic successes of medicine with the internal, nonphysical exploration of healing. This Certificate Program has been endorsed by the American Holistic Nurses Association.
Upon completion of the course, you will be able to do the following:
- Describe the differences between CAM and integrative health.
- Explain the foundations and healing modalities of Ayurvedic medicine.
- Discuss the role of energy in healing.
- Explain the healing effects of physical activity and movement.
- Describe forms of stress management to support health and healing.
- Describe the forms of meditation and their role in healing.
- Discuss the role of spirituality on health and healing.
- Describe the health effects of humor, music therapy, sound healing, and nutrition on health.
- Explain how elements of healing environments contribute to well-being.
- Explain the various therapeutic and bodywork healing therapies and their effects on health and well-being.
- Explain the foundations and healing modalities of Traditional Chinese medicine.
Complete the course post exam (CE Test) with a score of 80% or greater. Complete all fields of the course evaluation form.
Certificate of Completion is provided once all of the courses within the certificate program have been successfully completed per criteria above.
- American Board of Managed Care Nursing
- AOTA - American Occupational Therapy Association
- California Board of Behavioral Sciences
- California Board of Registered Nursing
- California Department of Health, Aid, and Technician Certification Section
- District of Columbia Board of Nursing
- Florida Board of Nursing
- Florida Board of Nursing - Certified Nursing Assistants
- Florida Board of Respiratory Care
- Florida Council of Dietetics and Nutrition
- Florida Council of Licensed Midwifery
- NCBTMB -National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork
- Florida Board of Massage Therapists
- ANCC - American Nurses Credentialing Center
- NAADAC - The National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors
AOTA CEUs:
3.4
Practice Level:
Beginner/Introductory
Content Focus:
Occupational Therapy Process
Course Expires:
September 11, 2018
Instructor(s):
- Cyndie Koopsen, RN, BSN, MBA, HNB-BC, RN-BC, HWNC-BC
- Caroline Young, MPH
Jurisdictional Requirements:
Continuing education (CE) licensing requirements vary by jurisdiction, are not well defined, and may change. These CE requirements may vary in terms of the number of hours required to the types of courses that must be taken. ALLEGRA Learning Solutions, LLC recommends you contact your licensing board or accrediting organization for the latest continuing education requirements of your state or territory. Compliance with CE requirements is the responsibility of the individual health care provider. Health care providers must understand the CE requirements in their jurisdictions, and be sure they are up-to-date on any rule changes that affect their license. For further information, please see our Accreditation Information.
Accommodations for Disabilities:
Every effort will be made to accommodate your special needs. To request accommodations, please contact us.
Conflicts of Interest and Relevant Financial Relationships:
The authors/planning committee members have no conflicts of interests or relevant financial relationships to declare relevant to this activity.
Commercial Support:
No commercial support has been received for this activity.
Non-endorsement of products:
Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing nursing education only and does not imply ALLEGRA Learning Solutions, LLC approval or endorsement of any commercial product.
Off-label Use of Products:
None of the authors intend to discuss off-label uses of drugs, mechanical devices, biologics, or diagnostics not approved by the FDA for use in the United States.
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