In addition to our academic courses, master's degree, grad minor/certificate, and online learning modules, the Center offers opportunities for health professionals to gain continuing education credits. Learn more about these opportunities below.
Continuing Education for Health Professionals
Food Matters for Health Professionals
Food Matters CE Course is an evidence-based, experiential-learning, applied nutrition, and culinary skills course for health professionals of all disciplines. The course addresses the role of food in specific health conditions and its function in health promotion and disease prevention. The relationship between the source of food and the larger food system to both environmental and human health will be explored, in addition to the importance of understanding the food system’s impact on patients and communities. Credits available: AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™, ANCC Contact hours, MN Board of Dietetics and Nutrition Practice CEUs, and National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching CEUs (CEA-000171-1). See website for more details.
Integrative Nursing Webinars
Integrative nursing is a way of being-knowing-doing that advances the health and wellbeing of persons, families, and communities through caring and healing relationships. Integrative nurses use evidence to inform traditional and emerging interventions that support whole person and whole systems healing.
Leaning into the Darkness: Essential Concepts in the Provision of Trauma Responsive Care with Angela Lewis-Dmello, MSW, LICSW
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 • 12 to 1 p.m. Central
The content of the webinar is designed for nurses. Other health professionals are welcome.
Trauma Responsive Care (TRC) is a framework for care that is being used across health and human service settings to ensure positive care experiences for clients; reducing the frequency of client re-traumatization. Trauma Responsive Care requires not only an understanding of the basics of trauma, but also its effects on the human mind, body, and soul. TRC requires an ability to recognize the effects of traumatic experiences on clients and the prevalence of those effects in individuals seeking medical and mental health care. A thorough understanding of the constellation of symptoms and mental health presentations of traumatized clients as well as the neurobiology of trauma will be addressed.
Participants will learn to apply Judith Herman’s Tri-phasic trauma intervention model to assessment of clients with a variety of needs and duration of care. Participants will also learn to support clients who have difficulty making gains due to inability to regulate emotionally or physiologically as a result of their traumatic experiences, and to apply proactive strategies for provision of care which are attuned to the complex needs of traumatized clients.
Participants can earn 1.0 continuing nursing education contact hours.
Washington State University College of Nursing is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Oregon Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Washington State University College of Nursing is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Oregon Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Continuing Education for Health Coaches
In addition to our Integrative Health and Wellbeing Coaching master's degree, grad minor/certificate, the Center offers opportunities for health coaches to gain continuing education credits to maintain their eligibility to continue their NBC-HWC status (requires 36 CEU every 3 years).