Earn Contact Hours

AHNA offers several CNE opportunities including self-study. Self-study offers a convenient, cost-effective way to earn contact hours for certification/re-certification or licensure.

Foundations of Holistic Nursing, self-study course – earn 54 contact hours

Geriatric Care, self-study modules – earn up to 15.5 contact hours

The Journal of Holistic Nursing, self-study CNE – earn contact hours from a selected article in each Journal for the past eight Journal issues

Annual Conference
Earn contact hours through live, face-to face learning and connect with like-minded nurses and health care professionals.  Don’t miss AHNA's Conference!

AHNA Approved Activities 
These activities were peer-reviewed and approved by AHNA’s Education Approver Committee (EAC) to offer contact hours to nurses.

AHNA Endorsed Programs
These in-depth CNE certificate programs have been reviewed and endorsed by AHNA.

The AHNA is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the
American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

AHNA is additionally Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing,
Provider number 10442.

Contact hours earned through the AHNA are valid in all 50 states & can also be used toward the contact hour requirement for holistic nurse certification through the American Holistic Nurses Certification Corporation.

As of January 1, 2007, AHNA will provide 60-minute contact hours and will no longer provide 50-minute contact-hour credit for continuing nursing education. According to ANCC, “This change brings greater consistency with the accreditation processes of other disciplines and increases the understanding and intuitiveness of the awarding of contact hours.” To estimate the number of contact hours for an educational activity, total the minutes of didactic or clinical experience and evaluating the activity and divide by 60. For example, 60 minutes=1 CH, 150 minutes=2.5 CH, etc.