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Clinical Nurse Specialist in Holistic Nursing
Course of Study
Required Core Support Courses
NUR 600 Health Care Management Systems (3 crs)
Provides students with the economic, financial, historical, and sociopolitical
foundations for leadership roles in the evolving health care industry. Strategic and
business planning introduces students to management of planned change, marketing concepts,
organized/integrated delivery systems, and fiscal dimensions of health care. The impact of
technology and information systems, multidisciplinary approaches, and systems thinking will
be examined.
NUR 513 Advanced Practice Psychosocial
Nursing (3 crs)
This course will provide students with philosophical and theoretical
frameworks for advanced practice assessment of the psychospiritual, cultural and
societal influences on the health of individuals and family systems. Seminal
models of individual and family psychosocial dynamics, research on selected
social health problems, instruments for assessment and diagnosis of
psychospiritual health status and interviewing and counseling strategies for
selected health concerns will be presented.
NUR 599 Theoretical Foundations for
Nursing Research (3 crs)
The focus of this course is the consideration of selected nursing
conceptual frameworks, interdisciplinary paradigms, and practice models for
theory development. Levels of knowing/knowledge acquisition in the discipline of
nursing will be examined. specific phenomena for concept analysis will be
identified. Strategies for reformulating concepts and theories from related
fields will be explicated to derive propositions for guiding nursing research.
NUR 632 Design And Methodology For
Nursing Research (3 crs)
This course provides an explication of the scientific nursing research
process to prepare the advanced practice nurse to use new knowledge in order to
provide high quality health care, initiate change, and improve nursing practice.
Examination and analyses of research designs and methodologies, including both
qualitative and quantitative perspectives are presented. Research studies are
critiqued to clarify the process of scientific inquiry and to emphasize the
significance of methodological rigor and integrity.
Scientific Core Courses
*NUR 606 Philosophy and Science of Wholeness (3 crs)
Focuses on philosophical constructs inherent in the wholeness paradigm of
person/universe and explores current theories of wholeness. Theories from the disciplines
of biology, physics, neuroscience, and nursing are examined as well as concepts of
paradimensionality, synchronicity, timelessness, consciousness, and oneness as these relate
to healing phenomena.
*NUR 611 Psychoneuroimmunology (3 crs)
Explores interactions among the brain, the immune system and psychosocial
phenomena and their relationships to health. The scientific and anecdotal evidence in
the field of psychoneuroimmunology is examined for its holistic application to therapeutic
interventions, lifestyle modification and future research. A critical evaluation of lay
literature is included.
*NUR 608 The Nurse as Healer I (3 crs)
Focuses on the professional nurse’s
self-development to facilitate his/her role as nurse-healer. The concepts of self,
consciousness, isomorphism of person/universe, and balance in living are explored.
Students work individually and in small groups utilizing selected healing modalities to
enhance the evolution of self.
NUR 609
The Nurse As Healer II (2 crs)
This course will provide students with the opportunity to
continue to evolve in their professional self-development to facilitate the self
in the role of nurse-healer. Students will work clinically in small groups to
build skill in meditation, consciousness expansion, and self exploration.
Prerequisite: NUR 608
NUR 511 Clinical Imagery and Meditation (3 crs)
A broad spectrum of imagery and meditative
approaches to working with people are learned. The application of these techniques in
patient teaching and preparation for treatment in pain and anxiety management, in
treatment enhancement and in emotional distress (hopelessness, helplessness, etc.) will be
explored. Students gain understanding of the variety of imagery and meditative
experiences, learn about individual differences; and explore the mind/body/spirit effects
of imagery and meditation.
NUR 619 Holistic Health Assessment (3 crs)
Western and Eastern methods of health assessment are
presented. Comprehensive health assessment requiring a synthesis of history taking,
physical examination, and laboratory evaluation consistent with contemporary western
health care practice is included. In addition, the philosophical bases of both Ayurvedic
and traditional Chinese medical paradigms are addressed. Approaches to the health history,
techniques of inspection, and auscultation consistent with these paradigms are stressed.
Case studies are used to consider differentiation of syndromes.
NUR 607
Complementary Pharmacology
(3crs).
Designed to provide a basic introduction to
homeopathy and herbology, tis course will focus on classical theory and
philosophy, acute prescribing, materia medica, and the language and tools for
case analysis. Traditional teaching modalities as lectures and video cases will
be blended with guided experiential exercises and small group work in order to
develop the subtler, internal dynamics of the student/practitioner.
*NUR 730 Advanced Practice in Holistic Nursing (6
crs)
Consists of three credit module options for students to study the
philosophical/theoretical constructs, research implications and practical
applications of selected healing modalities. Issues involved in weaving these modalities
into a caring- healing practice model are explored. A list of available options
will be made available each year and stud3ents must select at least one course
which focuses on subtle energy healing.
Prerequisites: NUR 606, 608, 609 and 619. Corequisites:
NUR 511, 611, 607
NUR 855. Holistic Role Practicum I.
(5 crs).
Focuses on the implementation of the role of nurse-healer in a variety of health
care settings. Students select a client cohort and level of practice into which
to integrate a caring healing model of practice. In partnership with traditional
health care systems, nurse healers co-create the opportunity to weave consciousness
of the unity of bodymindspirit into the client's choice and healing processes.
Students develop caring- healing competencies as they apply knowledge gained in
previous courses. The culminating synthesis project begins in this course. 2-
hour weekly seminar; 9 hour weekly clinical practice to be arranged by student
and preceptor in consultation with faculty.
Prerequisite: NUR 730
NUR 856: Holistic Role Practicum II. (5 crs)
Provides opportunities to continue evolving the role of nurse-healer in selected
health care environments. Students focus on networking and the development of
partnering relationships with interdisciplinary colleagues as the caring-healing
model is manifested in work with clients and aspects of the health care
community. The nurse healer's role in research of caring-healing phenomenon is
emphasized and the synthesis project is completed.
Prerequisite: NUR 855
Elective 3 cr.
Post Master's Holistic Certificate Program
* NUR 808 Role Practicum In Holistic Nursing I
(3 cr.)
Focuses on the implementation of the role of nurse-healer
in a variety of health care settings. Students will select a client cohort and
level of practice in which to integrate a caring healing model of practice. In
partnership with traditional health care systems, nurse healers will co-create
the opportunity to weave consciousness of the unity of bodymindspirit into the
client's choice and healing processes. Students will develop caring healing
competencies as they apply knowledge from previous courses. 1-hour weekly
seminar; 6 - hours weekly clinical practice to be arranged by students and
preceptor in consultation with faculty.
*NUR 908 Role Practicum in Holistic Nursing II (3 cr).
Provides opportunities to evolve in the role of
nurse-healer in selected health care environments. Students focus on networking
and the development of partnering relationships with interdisciplinary colleagues
as the caring-healing model is manifested in work with clients and aspects of
the health care community. The nurse-healer's role in the research of caring
healing phenomena is emphasized. 1 hour weekly seminar and 6 hours weekly
clinical practice.
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