Approval for Individual Activities

The American Holistic Nurses Association supports the the concept of planned continuing education as a means by which nurses can commit to continuous, lifelong learning and professional development and advance the discipline of nursing. 

If you would like to offer a holistic continuing nursing education (CNE) program for contact hours for nurses, applying through AHNA's Education Approver Committee (EAC) is one way to assure the program meets professional standards for CNE.

In AHNA's endeavor to expand educational opportunities, its Education Approver Committee (EAC) has streamlined the application process for approval of CNE activities based on ANCC criteria for educational design.

Benefits of AHNA approval of your continuing nursing education (CNE) activity include:

• Two Year Approval Period -- You can offer your approved activity as
  often as you’d like during the approval period.
• Broad Exposure -- Contact information for all AHNA approved activities
  is provided on our Web site.*
• Value for Clients and Consumers
  • AHNA Approved Contact Hours are recognized in 49 states for
    RN licensure and re-licensure. (exception is California)
  • AHNA Approved Contact Hours can be used toward the CNE
    requirement for holistic nurse certification and re-certification.
• Credibility -- Upon approval, you may use the AHNA name in the
  approval/marketing statement we provide.

Request an approval application at: approval@ahna.org or call  (800) 278-2462  (800) 278-2462 Ext. 21

Search a program directory of currently approved activites.

Important Change - PLEASE READ
Effective 8/1/2009, commercial entities are not eligible to apply for approval of activities. This change in applicant eligibility is in response to new criteria released by the ANCC Commission on Accreditation in 2009.

If you are a commerical entity and have had approval for activities in the past or have current approval, that approval ends on 7/31/2010.

ANCC defines an entity as having a commercial interest if it is:

  1. An entity that produces, markets, sells or distributes health care goods or services consumed by or used on patients; OR

  2. An entity that is owned or operated, in whole or in party, by any entity that produces, markets, sells or distributes health care goods or services consumed by or used on patients.

An entity is NOT a commercial interest if it is a government entity, a non-profit 501(c)(3) or non-healthcare related entity.

ANCC does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests.

Applicant Resources

Approval applications are peer-reviewed using this criteria checklist.

Help with writing objectives adapted from Bloom's Taxonomy.

Help creating a program using Holistic Educational Strategies

Post-activity Report Form


Samples

Reports
Post Activity Report Sample 1 - this report sample shows a report with a summary of participant feedback in *paragraph format

Post Activity Report Sample 2 - this report sample shows participant feedback in a *tallied format  (*Either summary format is acceptable)

Marketing & Disclosures
Program Flyer Sample 1 - this flyer contains all the disclosures that are required to be provided to activity particpants in advance of, or at the time of, the event.