Continuing Professional Development for Integrative Nursing
Nursing professional development (NPD) is defined as a career-long continuum of formal and informal educational activities that are informed by wide-ranging sources of evidence, including that from clinical or practice-based repositories as well as scientific and theoretical foundations. Several organizations support professional development opportunities in integrative nursing, including accreditation bodies, universities and schools of nursing, and independent professional education companies. This chapter presents opportunities for professional development, interprofessional education, and continuing education in integrative nursing as well as future trends in the field. An in-depth description of three exemplar programs that support ongoing professional development in integrative nursing as a way of highlighting the breadth and depth of opportunities for lifelong learning is presented.