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.
Easing Pain Holistically: Putting Integrative Pain Care into Practice with Kate Shafto, MD, FAAP, FACP
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 • 12 to 1 p.m. Central
This presentation will cover the principles of Integrative Pain Care (IPC) as an example of a whole-person, integrative approach to caring for people experiencing chronic pain. Since chronic pain impacts all areas of a person's life, an integrative and whole-person approach recognizes that each of these areas can be a doorway for healing and easing pain.
Dr. Shafto will briefly discuss the drivers of chronic pain, the relationship to neuroinflammation, and the principles of Integrative Pain Care. Following this overview, participants will be invited to practice 3 areas of IPC: food and nutrition, body-mind connections, and engaging with nature. The webinar will conclude with a discussion regarding the application of these principles into participants' professional and clinical contexts.
Learning Objectives:
1. Explain Integrative Pain Care (IPC) and name several doorways through which chronic pain can be addressed.
2. Practice at least one skill to activate the parasympathetic nervous system and lower inflammation.
3. Apply IPC and Integrative Nursing principles to participants' clinical, professional, and/or personal contexts.
The content of the webinar is designed for nurses. Other health professionals are welcome.
Participants can earn 1.0 continuing nursing education contact hours.
You can learn more about upcoming Integrative Nursing webinars on our free webinars webpage or watch recordings of some 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.
Interplay of Positionality and Power: Provider Authenticity and Role of Coconspirator for Equitable and Sustainable Healthcare Practices with Yukiko Nakajima, DNP, MSW, PMHNP, CNP-A, WHCNP on December 11, 2024. Fill out the evaluation to claim 1.0 nursing education contact hours, which will be available until December 11, 2027.
Creating Whole Health: A Clinical Model for Advanced Practice Integrative Nursing led by Laura Sandquist DNP, APRN, A-GNP-C, IFMCP on February 14, 2024. Fill out the evaluation to claim 1.0 nursing education contact hours, which will be available until February 14, 2027.
Integrative Nursing & Health Coaching Webinar | Elevating Patient Care led by Erin Erickson, DNP MPH, MA, WHNP-BC, FNP-C, IFMCP, NBC-HWC and Cherie Kroh, EdD, FACSM, NBC-HWC, EP-C, PAPHS, CHWC on November 30, 2023. Fill out the evaluation to claim 1.0 nursing education contact hours, which will be available until November 30, 2026.
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.
Washington State University College of Nursing is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Montana Nurses Association, an accredited approver with distinction 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).