The Birch Tree Center for Healthcare Transformation - Professional Development for Nurses

http://www.birchtreecenter.com/index.html

Florence, MA
Phone: 413-586-5551
Email: info@birchtreecenter.com

Nurses engage in a unique relationship within the health care system where they are invited to embody a caring-healing consciousness that forms the framework for relationship-centered care and inspired leadership.

We provide professional development programs that support and facilitate the healing work of nurses along with creating an opportunity to develop the knowledge base and skill-building required of integrative nursing and complementary/alternative modalities (CAM) within an evidence-based practice model.

Integral within all of the nurse continuing education programs offered through The BirchTree Center is the common thread of ‘caring for the caregiver’. We recognize the stressful intensity of nursing practice and emphasize the importance of maintaining self-care routines. Our faculty intentionally create a relaxed learning environment within our programs that fosters self-care activities.

Our professional development programs include:
Integrative Healing Arts Program: A Certificate Program for Nurses
ReAwakening the Heart: Caring & Renewal in Nursing Practice
Holistic Nursing Certification and Re-Certification
Holistic Nursing & Complementary Modalities: A Web-based Learning Experience
The Instructor Development Program
Transformational Leadership for Organizational Change
The Voice of Nursing: A Writing for Publication Retreat for Nurses

Nurses select our programs for a variety of reasons:

• Professional career enhancement and satisfaction
• Development of skills for clinical integration of Complementary and Alternative Modalities (CAM)
• Incorporation of holistic philosophy, theory, and CAM within conventional nursing curricula
• Integration of transformational leadership principles
• Opportunity to embrace a professional nursing vision that nurtures the heart and soul
• Acknowledgement of the spiritual connection within healing work
• Community-building and networking with other like-minded nurses
• Preparation for Certification in Holistic Nursing (HNC)

Retrieved from Birch Tree Center website on 3/29/2010.