Healing Traditions

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Healing Traditions in Nursing

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Healing Traditions in Nursing – Format: Webinar (Live) Lecture and Discussion, Case Studies / Story, Assigned Readings,Literature review, Writing assignments

Course Description: People’s healing traditions reflect cultural beliefs, thoughts, rituals and practices associated with their understanding of the human experience of health, illness, healing, suffering and curing. These healing traditions have endured the test of time and are preserved in health systems which continue to thrive in society alongside biomedical culture and expanding health care technologies. Extensive research on health belief and healing traditions, also known globally as Indigenous Knowledge Systems, has been conducted by ethnographers, folklorists, and sociologists as well as nurses. Health beliefs and practices are passed from generation to generation in indigenous societies and ethnic communities through such activities as storytelling, prayer, and sharing recipes for making medicines from plants. Healing traditions are inherently holistic (involving spiritual, emotional, mental, and physiological domains) and include a broad definition of science that is connected with the environment. In addition to their own personal cultures, nurses and midwives are part of a professional culture with its own set of beliefs, thoughts, rituals, practices, and healing traditions. Nurses’ centuries-old healing tradition includes providing holistic care and leadership in health care reform that changes the lives of people and communities.

This course provides an opportunity for historical reflection and learning about concepts, systems, rituals, and practices associated with nursing’s and other culture’s healing traditions. The course will root your understanding of the principles and practice of holistic integrative care and health diplomacy in the traditions of a stronger identity as a holistic nurse clinician, educator, researcher and leader. This Healing Traditions course, while open to anyone interested in the science, art, and tradition of care and comfort, specifically attends to the professional education of licensed and practical nurses, Certified Nurse-Midwives, and Advanced Practice Nurses seeking foundations for new directions in practice. For those seeking additional and advanced study on Healing Traditions see program information on becoming an Herbal Diplomat^®.

Course Topics Include:

Nursing’s Professional Culture and Health Beliefs
Foundations for Nurses’ Healing Traditions: Self-Care Support, Health Promotion, Holism, and Healing Environments
Elements of Care: The “Sick Room” as the Laboratory of the Nurse Scientist
Recipes and Remedies – Continuing the Herbal Tradition
Healing Traditions of African-American, Asian, Hispanic/Latino, First Nation and European-American Communities
Historical Roots of Health Diplomacy
Spirituality and Ritual
Midwives, Women Healers, Witches and the Inquisition

Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course the attendee will be able to:

Differentiate the concepts: healing traditions, complementary therapies, alternative medicine, biomedicine, indigenous healing, and orthodox healthcare.
Explain the role of health belief in healing traditions and nursing.
Discuss cultural, ethnic, and folkloric perspectives of traditional healing and indigenous knowledge systems.
Compare and contrast professional nursing’s healing traditions with the self-care practices of the family caregivers.
Report on two modalities (therapeutic techniques or applications of care), health/nursing concepts, or beliefs associated with healing traditions.
Identify healing traditions themes represented in 18^th and 19^th century American nursing history.
Analyze how knowledge of nurses’ healing traditions might be translated to contemporary nursing knowledge, practice, and education and to the American healthcare system.

Requirements for Successful Completion:

Evaluation: 500 Point Scale (388 – 500 ) P Pass; (0 – 387) F Failure
Participation in 4 Webinar Discussions = 80 points (20 each)
Translational Nursing Paper - 2 Papers = 300 points (150 each)
Preparation for Webinar – 3 Prep Forms = 120 points (40 each)
Completion of Course Evaluation

Required Texts:

Enlightened Charity. by Libster, M. & McNeil, B. (ISBN - 9780975501825)

O’Connor, B. (1995). Healing Traditions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Perrone, B. , Stockel, H. & Krueger, V. (1993). Medicine women, curanderas, and women doctors. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
The Nurse-Herbalist: Integrative Insights for Holistic Practice by Libster (ISBN - 9780975501849)
Other readings as assigned.

Registration Fee: $595.

2-Month Course Includes:

30 Contact Hours and Certificate of Attendance
Book: Enlightened Charity
Participation in 4 Webinars
Guided Self-Study Course Materials

Schedule: REGISTER NOW

Jan 12 - Mar 8 Webinar TBA 7 - 10 pm Eastern Time

Continuing Education Credit

Heaing Traditions (AHNA Approval Code 809) is approved by the American Holistic Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's COA. This activity is approved for 30 contact hours for nurses through July 25, 2013.