Educate, Advocate, Coach®

Expand Your Skills and Credentials
Beyond Health Coaching!

Earn a National Provider Identification (NPI) number in Patient Health Education
to advance your work in nursing and direct patient care!

Earn 4 free ANCC CEUs – watch video at the bottom of this page

NIWH provides the whole package for success – whether in private practice or in partnership within a medical practice. Billing and Coding expert guidance, practice building, professional networking, and success mentoring are all available to NIWH learners and graduates from initial enrollment to graduation and beyond! All learners, past and present, are part of the Whole Health Family and Community at NIWH and are always welcome to participate in all Whole Health offerings. We want you to succeed!!

NIWH Whole Health Nurse Educator program is Endorsed, Approved and/or Distributed by

Nurses interested in sitting for the AHNCC Board Certified Nurse coach certification, as part of your NIWH curriculum ( Included in your Tuition) you complete a Mentoring Course with Dr. Linda Bark, a leader in coach training for nearly 30 years. Guided by a certified Nurse Coach, this course ensures your case study practice hours count toward the 60 required for Nurse Coach certification. Gain expert guidance, valuable resources, and meaningful support throughout the journey. Class sizes are limited to 10 participants, so be sure to sign up early. This course is offered three times a year.

As your nursing scope of practice includes patient health education, the NIWH training allows for an additional scope of practice that is built upon your nursing education and credentials. Becoming a credentialed Nurse Health Educator will provide you the opportunity to receive a National Provider Identification (NPI) number and professional liability insurance as a patient health educator. You can utilize the NPI for private practice as a Health and Wellness Educator, as well as work in a physician-led medical practice as a Patient Health Educator.

The CMS has just made possible that patient health educators can provide the Wellness Assessment intakes, both 1st and 2nd visits, with a generous reimbursement of 171.00 and 117.00, respectfully, to make patient health educators an important and valuable part of a primary care practice. Graduates are provided with a detailed billing and coding manual for application in practice settings.

Enjoy 2 Hours of Whole Health Course Excerpts

The 3-in-1 Whole Health Educator™ for Nurses program provides 24 Core Courses with individual course assignment templates and evaluation forms that earn you approved ANCC continuing education contact hours. After a proctored Final Exam you will begin your eight (8) Case Study tutorial courses and begin the practicum or application portion of the program. Visit our Whole Health Programs page for more details about the program, or our Whole Health Foundation courses page for an expanded description of all the courses provided in the curriculum.

The training culminates with a Final Paper project that integrates all levels of the work and demonstrates your knowledge and skills in Whole Health Education counseling.

The accelerated 6 month program can be extended to provide up to 16 months to complete.

The program delivers 200 ANCC approved continuing education contact hours for nurses which fulfill the holistic continuing education requirement for the national Holistic Nurse Board Certification exam, the AHNCC Board Certified Nurse Coach exam and the national Chronic Care professional certification.

PLEASE NOTE: NIWH nutrition courses are patient/client education focused, providing epidemiological and evidence-base science on the how and why of nutrition in disease prevention, health recovery, wellness maintenance and for patient/client whole health education. Our whole foods focused nutrition courses are designed to enhance the professional’s knowledge of the science of nutrition but ARE NOT intended to teach learners how to recommend or prescribe diets or supplements to their patients or clients.

Unless a professional has a licensed scope of practice and credentials, along with professional liability insurance to practice nutrition, there are both legal and ethical constraints related to advising an individual about nutrition. The whole picture of heath® approach invites the client into understanding the cause and effect of the physical, emotional, nutritional, environmental and spiritual components of health so they can make the informed, sustainable lifestyle choices they deem are appropriate with their values and needs.

Today’s nurse is looking to enrich their patient services by becoming skilled in the following areas: Holistic Nurse training; Integrated, Evidence-based Nutrition; Health Coaching Skills; Whole Person Care knowledge; Nurse Coaching; Natural Health Care training; Wellness Education and Holistic Nurse Training. This program can offer you all of these skills along with 200 ANCC approved nurse continuing education.

If you are seeking an evidence-based, integrative health education which includes CDC accredited on-line nutrition courses, natural health care training and wellness coaching skills, we invite you to explore the NIWH Whole Health Educator for Nurses program.

For CE Contact Hours, watch the A Whole Health Journey Through Menopause video all the way through twice, review the PDF of handouts and read the course book; then fill out and return the Course Assignment and Evaluation Form. Send them to  essays@wholehealtheducation.com.

Upon successful completion, you will earn a continuing education certificate for four (4) ANCC contact hours

• Please email wholehealtheducation@gmail.com to request the course handouts and Continuing Education evaluation forms. Indicate that you want the FREE CE paperwork in the subject line.
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