Holistic Nurse Training Program - Week 2 Fall

Springfield, MA US
November 10, 2025 to November 13, 2025

Target Audience

Nurses (RN & LPN)

Learning Objectives

After participating in the educational activities for Week One, attendees should be able to:

Day 1

  1. State Baystate Health’s Mission and Vision for Nursing 
  2. Explore the significant and importance of Holistic Nursing Certification at Baystate Health 
  3. Define the Magnet Nursing Standards and the IOM Future of Nursing Report alignment with promoting nurse’s self-care and well-being 
  4. Interpret the therapeutic inpatient, ambulatory and community environments that holistic nursing care impacts 
  5. Interpret the current evidence-informed literature about holistic nursing care 
  6. Integrate principles of the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses into self-care and patient care 
  7. Differentiate between the different types of certifications for holistic nursing 

Day 2 

  1. Explore the significant and importance of healing energy therapies and interconnectedness in holistic nursing 
  2. Define the Holistic Code of Ethics, ethical decision making, and the ethical role of the nurse at BH 
  3. Interpret the different holistic caring process in the inpatient, ambulatory and community environments that holistic nursing care impacts 
  4. Differentiate between compassion fatigue and caregiver burnout in nursing 
  5. Recognize the holistic nursing standards that the holistic nurse implements for comfort and healing

Day 3 

  1. Explore the benefits of embracing diversity/equity/inclusion into the holistic health care delivery model
  2. Define the scientific truths and falsehoods of holistic nursing care with patients and self-care for staff
  3. Interpret the national trends for holistic nursing and inpatient/ambulatory health care standards
  4. Integrate the didactic holistic learning with real-life examples from the inpatient/ambulatory settings

Day 4 

  1. Explore the ideas, concepts and components of a holistic certification exam
  2. Interpret the evidence informed holistic care practices that have been used by other healthcare organizations
  3. Analyze the patient’s or staff’s experience with holistic modalities introduced to that population
  4. Differentiate between the concepts of holistic teaching on a unit versus at a podium presentation
  5. Integrate principles of holistic care practices when critiquing research and evidence-informed quality projects
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 32.00 ANCC Contact Hours
Course opens: 
11/10/2025
Course expires: 
12/31/2025
Event starts: 
11/10/2025 - 8:00am EST
Event ends: 
11/13/2025 - 5:00pm EST
Baystate Medical Center
759 Chestnut Street
Mass Mutual 4 Conference Room
Springfield, MA 01199
United States

 

 

 

Faculty

Constance Blake, EdD, MSN, RNC-OB, HNB-BC
Nurse Educator
Holistic Nursing Department
Baystate Medical Center

Lindsay McDonald, MSN, RN
Behavior Health Nurse Educator
Baystate Medical Center

Cidalia Vital, PhD, RN, CNL, CRRN
Director Nursing Research, Holistic, & Spiritual Services
Baystate Medical Center

Lauri Deary, MS, BSN, RN, HN-BC
Nurse Educator
Baystate Medical Center

Jennifer Zollo, RN, BSN, NC-BC, CPN
Baystate Medical Center

Pamela Rivera, RN, BSN, CMSRN, HNB-BC
Expert Nurse, MM7
Baystate Medical Center

Araskya McInerney, BSN, RN
Clinical Documentation Specialist
Baystate Medical Center

Caitlin Waddell, MSN, RN, HNB-BC, GERO-BC
NICHE Program Coordinator

Baystate Medical Center

Ute Schmidt, Master Religious Education
Manager & Educator Spiritual Care
Baystate Medical Center

Name of Individual

Individual's Role in Activity

Financial Relationship Disclosure

Discussion of
Unlabeled/Unapproved
Uses of Drugs/Devices
in Presentation?

Constance Blake, EdD, MSN, RNC-OB, HNB-BCCourse Director, Planner, InstructorNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Lindsay McDonald, MSN, RNInstructorNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Cidalia Vital, PhD, RN, CNL, CRRNInstructorNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Lauri Deary, MS, BSN, RN, HN-BCInstructorNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Jennifer Zollo, RN, BSN, NC-BC, CPNInstructorNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Pamela Rivera, RN, BSN, CMSRN, HNB-BCInstructorNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Araskya McInerney, BSN, RNInstructorNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Caitlin Waddell, MSN, RN, HNB-BC, GERO-BCInstructorNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Ute Schmidt, Master Religious EducationInstructorNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education (CE) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options. Any relevant financial relationships are mitigated prior to the educational activity.

None of the planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 

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In support of improving patient care, Baystate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.


 

Nurses
Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 32.0 contact hour(s).  Nurses should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Available Credit

  • 32.00 ANCC Contact Hours
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