Continuing Competency is required to renew your Holistic Nursing or Nurse Coaching certification. There are different ways to demonstrate continuing competency. One way is through the acquisition of traditional CE hours. Another way is through different professional development activities. Below you will find information to help you meet the continuing competency requirement. All continuing competency hours submitted must build your knowledge base and/or skills in your certification specialty. Medical focused courses will not be accepted for AHNCC Recertification unless you can explain how they relate to your practice. (For more details see the Recertification Handbook/Continuing Competency Requirements.)
Here are some Upcoming Activities.
Disclaimer: AHNCC does not endorse these courses nor is responsible for misinformation provided by these courses. Notification of upcoming courses is done as a service to our certificants. Click on links below for more information.
Upcoming CE/Continuing Competency Opportunities
Rediscover the Heart and Art of Nursing
Become a Holistic Nurse in Any Practice Setting or Refresh Your Skills to Meet Your CE Requirements for Holistic Nursing Certification or Recertification and Take a Pivotal Role in a New Healthcare Paradigm
November 20-23, 2025 Guest House Retreat & Conference Center | Chester, CTA unique, one-time opportunity to experience part of its prestigious Integrative Healing Arts Program (IHAP)—open to all nurses, regardless of certification, AHNA membership, or prior attendance! This third session of IHAP—normally only open to already-certified nurses or those who’ve attended prior sessions—is being offered as a special one-time opportunity for all interested nurses. The focus? Transformational Leadership in Holistic Nursing Register by August 15: 10% off the full 4-day program
The demand for healing arts skills in holistic nursing has never been higher because the public is increasingly seeking healing that honors the whole being, including the body, mind, emotion and spirit.
The Integrative Healing Arts Program in Holistic Nursing (IHAP) is a unique continuing nursing education (CNE) program in a relaxing retreat setting.
Healing arts are interventions that:
Foster the healing process
Facilitate deeper levels of self-understanding and wholeness
Honor the body, mind, emotions, and spirit
Healing does not equate to curing, although they can be synchronous.
IHAP is offered in retreat settings across the USA. IHAP graduates:
Receive a certificate in Holistic Nursing and Integrative Modalities
Use holistic principles and modalities in their daily life and in clinical practice
Create a space within and around themselves that allows them to be an instrument of healing
Use their authenticity, caring presence, and nursing skills to facilitate birth, growth, recovery, and end-of-life transition
Provide healing arts,in all healthcare settings including hospitals, universities, and private practices
“IHAP is an amazing way to be taken care of, to care for myself, and to bring energetic and calm compassion into practice. Highly recommended!”
Invited Guest Speaker and Author: Anna Biley, Dip. N, MSc (Nursing) ‘From ‘Loving in Presence to Loving in Absence’*: A unitary story of love, legacy and hope”
REGISTRATION INFORMATION AND PROGRAM Times and Registration The Society of Rogerian Scholars (SRS) is pleased to announce the theme and program for the 2025 SRS Conference: Inspiring Optimism in Times of Turbulence: A Rogerian Nursing Science Perspective. The conference will be held at the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University. Participants will have the option of attending in person or virtually. The conference begins on Friday and concludes on Sunday.
Friday, October 24: 2:15PM to 5:00PM (EDT)
Saturday, October 25: 9:00AM to 2:30PM (EDT)
Sunday, October 26: SRS Annual Business Meeting, 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM (EDT) 9:15AM – 12:45PM (EDT)
Identifying Patients Experiencing Trafficking and Exploitation
Children and adolescents who experience sex and labor trafficking and exploitation may seek health care in a variety of settings, such as emergency departments, community clinics and private practices. That makes it “essential that pediatric providers anywhere are equipped to recognize potential T/E [trafficking and exploitation] and respond appropriately.
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), 2023
The role of the pediatric healthcare provider includes advocating for the rights of children and adolescents. Child trafficking and exploitation are violations of basic human rights and can result in serious physical and mental harms.
Children and adolescents can be disproportionately vulnerable to trafficking and exploitation (Chang et al., 2022).
Their neurobiology has not developed enough for them to effectively assess risk.
They have fewer life experiences that could warn them away from the psychological manipulation used by traffickers and exploiters.
Adolescents may be more impulsive because of brain reward circuits that can act to encourage experimental and risky behaviors, especially when the youth use substances or alcohol.
Although healthcare providers are not charged with eliminating child trafficking and exploitation, they are on the front lines for identifying children and adolescents who have been victimized or are at risk for victimization.
Holistic Counseling is a true Holistic medicine life-changing professional certification program that transforms you, the practitioner, into a confident mind-body expert so that you can practice in a deeply fulfilling way. Through a highly effective dialogue called the Vis Dialogue, and one on one mentoring, you will learn to uncover your own limiting belief systems that are causing you suffering and then you’ll be trained in how to apply this in your practice. Program begins Oct 20th. Discover why patients are saying one appointment with a Vis Dialogue practitioner is like decades in psychotherapy or counseling. Get $1000 off with Code: FallLove. More info here – https://holistic-counseling.ca/
