Integrative Health and Medicine Specialization

Launch your career in integrative health. Incorporate complementary therapies in clinical practice to improve outcomes and promote wellbeing.

Instructors: Robin Austin, DNP, DC +6 more

What you'll learn

  •   Assess the current and potential role for integrative therapies in health and healthcare, including your own workplace.
  •   Discuss the evidence base for use of integrative therapies, including the historical, clinical, and research data.
  •   Assess if a therapy is appropriate, Educate patients about benefit and risk, Administer or advise on use, and Evaluate if the therapy was useful.
  •   Partner with patients to incorporate integrative therapies for specific symptom management or enhanced health and wellbeing.
  • Skills you'll gain

  •   Drug Interaction
  •   Health Assessment
  •   Music
  •   Patient Education And Counseling
  •   Health Policy
  •   Contraindication
  •   Research
  •   Pharmacology
  •   Mindfulness
  •   Patient Safety
  •   Patient Evaluation
  •   Compassion
  • Specialization - 5 course series

    Each course in this specialization includes a peer-reviewed project that applies integrative therapies to a specific situation. To begin, you will analyze what is needed to bring integrative therapies into your workplace or other setting. In later courses, you will research the benefits and risks of specific herbal medicines and essential oils for specific patients or clients; create a guided imagery recording; and make recommendations based on evidence and patient preferences for herbal medicines, aromatherapy, guided imagery, and mindfulness practice. Throughout, the focus will be on assessing patient needs and educating and advising patients in clear, simple, and patient-centered language.

    Guided Imagery

    Herbal Medicine

    Aromatherapy: Clinical Use of Essential Oils

    Mindfulness in Integrative Healthcare

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