Continuing Education Overview

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.

The Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing is a leader in the integrative nursing field, and we partner with Washington State University College of Nursing to provide continuing nursing education contact hours for our free Integrative Nursing webinar series.

Creating Whole Health: A Clinical Model for Advanced Practice Integrative Nursing

February 14 2024 • Noon - 1 p.m. Central

The content of the webinar is designed for nurses and health professionals. Participants can earn 1.0 continuing nursing education contact hours.

The principles of integrative nursing can be applied to any setting & all levels of nursing practice. However, a clinical model for application in advanced practice nursing settings can be helpful to guide practical application of these principles, especially as it applies to the management & support of chronic disease in the outpatient clinic setting. 

This webinar led by Laura Sandquist DNP, APRN, A-GNP-C, IFMCP will explore an advanced practice nursing clinical model based on the synergy of the philosophies of integrative nursing & functional medicine that focuses on creating whole health. This sustainable model has been successfully implemented within a large insurance-based health system in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, & the department quadrupled in size from 5 to 20 practitioners since 2019 which demonstrates the high demand for this type of care. Participants will gain insights into how advanced practice integrative nursing models like this one can transform outpatient care in health systems & play a part in addressing social & structural determinants of health. 

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.


You can learn more about upcoming Integrative Nursing webinars on our free webinars webpage or watch recordings of the past webinars below. To receive your nursing education contact hours for watching the recording, you must fill out the corresponding evaluation. Your CE certificate will be automatically sent upon completion of the evaluation.
 
An Evidence Based Design Approach to Creating a Healthy Work Environment led by Terri Zborowsky, PhD, RN, EDAC, CPXP on June 28, 2023. Fill out the evaluation to claim 1.0 nursing education contact hours, which will be available until June 28, 2026. 
 
Mindful Awareness in Body-oriented Therapy (MABT): Research on Interoceptive Awareness Training and Considerations for Clinical Care led by Cynthia Price, PhD, MA, LMT on April 12, 2023. Fill out the evaluation to claim 1.0 nursing education contact hours, which will be available until April 23, 2026. 
 
An Integrative Tapestry Supporting Wellbeing Across Pediatric and Adolescent Healthcare Settings led by Wanda Baker, DNP, RN on December 14, 2022. Fill out the evaluation to claim 1.0 nursing education contact hours, which will be available until December 14, 2023. 
 
Seeking Unity in Patient Care: A Ternary Approach to Health led by Sarah Bird, DNP, IFMCP on February 2, 2022. Fill out the evaluation to claim 1.0 nursing education contact hours, which will be available until February 2, 2025.
 
Bad Stuff, Trauma and PTSD: How COVID blew the lid off it all led by Jane McCampbell Stuart, M.A., LMFT, CPCC on December 8, 2021. Fill out the evaluation to claim 1.0 nursing education contact hours, which will be available until December 8, 2024. 
 
Unlocking the Interconnectedness of Nature and Nursing: The Illusion of Separateness led by Erica R. Timko Olson, PhD, RN on August 11, 201. Fill out the evaluation to claim 1.0 nursing education contact hours, which will be available until August 11, 2024. 
 
Integrative Nursing & Sacred Medicine - The Emerging Field of Psychedelic Therapy led by Stephanie Van Hope, DNP, RN on May 12, 2021. Fill out the evaluation to claim 1.0 nursing education contact hours, which will be available until May 12, 2024. 
 

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).

Learn more about these opportunities