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Launch your career in integrative health. Incorporate complementary therapies in clinical practice to improve outcomes and promote wellbeing.
Instructors: Robin Austin, DNP, DC
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While this specialization is targeted at health providers, anyone can benefit from taking these courses for their own personal use.
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While this specialization is targeted at health providers, anyone can benefit from taking these courses for their own personal use.
Assess the current and potential role for integrative therapies in health and healthcare, including your own workplace.
Discuss the evidence base for use of integrative therapies, including the historical, clinical, and research data.
Assess if a therapy is appropriate, Educate patients about benefit and risk, Administer or advise on use, and Evaluate if the therapy was useful.
Partner with patients to incorporate integrative therapies for specific symptom management or enhanced health and wellbeing.
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If you want to help your patients or clients manage conditions or symptoms such as pain and anxiety, this specialization will provide the knowledge and skills needed. In these five courses, you will explore integrative therapies, including herbal medicine, guided imagery, aromatherapy, and mindfulness. For each therapy studied, you will gain skills to: Assess if a therapy is appropriate, Educate patients or clients about benefit and risk, Administer or advise on use, and Evaluate if the therapy was useful (our AEAE approach).
By the end of this specialization, you will be familiar with application methods, mechanisms of action, and the research evidence for specific therapies, as well as safety and quality considerations. In short, you will be ready to partner with patients on developing a plan of integrative care that fits their needs and preferences. Note that while the primary focus is on working with patients or clients, the information is also immediately applicable to your own health and wellbeing.
Applied Learning Project
Each course in this specialization includes a peer-reviewed project that applies integrative therapies to a specific situation. To begin, you will analyze what is needed to bring integrative therapies into your workplace or other setting. In later courses, you will research the benefits and risks of specific herbal medicines and essential oils for specific patients or clients; create a guided imagery recording; and make recommendations based on evidence and patient preferences for herbal medicines, aromatherapy, guided imagery, and mindfulness practice. Throughout, the focus will be on assessing patient needs and educating and advising patients in clear, simple, and patient-centered language.
Describe the field of integrative health.
Evaluate the state of the research evidence and reliable sources to use.
Discuss the overall safety of these therapies and how to optimize safe use.
Create a plan to successfully introduce integrative therapies into your work or other setting.
Evaluate the role of guided imagery in health and healthcare and how you may use it professionally and personally.
Assess if guided imagery is appropriate for a client or patient.
Identify and evaluate resources, including apps and commercial products that might be helpful in specific situations or for specific conditions.
Create your own imagery intervention for a specific patient or group of patients
Discuss the role of herbal medicines in healthcare overall as well as your potential role.
Discuss overall botanical actions and methods for creating botanical preparations.
Assess patients, including potential for herb-drug interactions and other potential contraindications and considerations for special populations.
Educate patients on quality control and safety issues.
Describe the current and potential role of aromatherapy in health and healthcare.
Identify safety and ethical issues and discuss their application in practice situations.
Assess, administer, and evaluate the use of essential oils for management of pain, anxiety, nausea, and fatigue.
Discuss logistics of establishing and sustaining a clinical aromatherapy program.
Discuss the benefits of mindfulness as supported by research evidence, including potential impact on pain management, sleep issues, and anxiety.
List contraindications, discuss how you would identify when they are present, and identify possible modifications to your recommendations.
Identify programs and resources—both local in-person and online where you might refer patients.
Discuss the benefits of mindfulness for you professionally, including reduced stress, enhanced focus, and emotional regulation.
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Each of the five courses is 6 weeks long, except for Mindfulness in Integrative Healthcare, which is 4 weeks long.
There is no required background knowledge.
No, you can begin with the course that most interests you.
Not at this time.
Upon completing this specialization, you willhave the skills to:
1) Assess patient or client need and desire for integrative therapies;
2) Research the evidence for benefits and risks for specific integrative therapies in various situations;
3) Educate patients or clients about safety and quality concerns;
4) Partner with patients or clients on developing a plan of integrative care that fits their needs and preferences; and
5) Administer the therapy or advise patients or clients on use.
Each course has been designed to meet Minnesota Board of Nursing continuing education (CE) requirements for 10-15 contact hours and may be eligible for CE credit from other professional boards that allow self-documenting of continuing education activities. It is your responsibility to check with your regulatory board to confirm the courses meet your local requirements and, if necessary, to provide them with the certificate(s) of completion you get if you pay for and fulfill all the requirements.
This course is completely online, so there’s no need to show up to a classroom in person. You can access your lectures, readings and assignments anytime and anywhere via the web or your mobile device.
If you subscribed, you get a 7-day free trial during which you can cancel at no penalty. After that, we don’t give refunds, but you can cancel your subscription at any time. See our full refund policy.
Yes! To get started, click the course card that interests you and enroll. You can enroll and complete the course to earn a shareable certificate, or you can audit it to view the course materials for free. When you subscribe to a course that is part of a Specialization, you’re automatically subscribed to the full Specialization. Visit your learner dashboard to track your progress.
Yes. In select learning programs, you can apply for financial aid or a scholarship if you can’t afford the enrollment fee. If fin aid or scholarship is available for your learning program selection, you’ll find a link to apply on the description page.
When you enroll in the course, you get access to all of the courses in the Specialization, and you earn a certificate when you complete the work. If you only want to read and view the course content, you can audit the course for free. If you cannot afford the fee, you can apply for financial aid.
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