CLINICAL SPECIALIST in HOLISTIC NURSING program
Prepares professional nurses for advanced practice roles as nurse-healers
in a variety of health care settings with diverse client populations.
COURSES
Common Core Courses
- Perspectives of Health Care Management
- Advanced Role Development in Transformative Nursing
- Theoretical Foundation for Advanced Nursing Practice and Management
- Design and Methodology for Nursing Research
Advanced Practice Core Courses
- Advanced Pathophysiology and Psychoneuroimmunology I
- Advanced Pathophysiology and Psychoneuroimmunology II
- Advanced Health Assessment and Pattern Appraisal
- Naturalistic and Holistic Therapeutics I
- Naturalistic and Holistic Therapeutics II
Clinical Practica Courses
- Clinical Practicum I
- Clinical Practicum II
- Clinical Practicum III
TOTAL: 40 credit hours/630 clinical hours
Courses provide knowledge of philosophy, integrative theories, and
science of wholeness, pathways for self-development and clinical practice
with selected clients. Opportunity exists for in-depth study of the self,
personal growth, and evolution of a healing consciousness.
Faculty who teach and mentor students are experts in the field of complementary health care and maintain clinical practices in which the role of nurse-healer is used in partnership with traditional health care systems.
Experiential learning of selected complementary modalities, such as imagery, meditation, polarity energy balancing, reflexology, relaxtion, sound therapies, and therapeutic touch. Through clinical practica, students care for a selected client cohort to integrate a caring-healing model of advanced practice into a variety of health care environments.