NCIPH

1. Practice patient-centered and relationship-based care.
• Provide care that is person-centered and relationship-based.
• Employ effective educational strategies that encourage patient engagement in symptom self-management and strategies that improve whole person wellbeing.
• Engage in self-reflective practice to deliver high quality, safe and patient-centered care.
2. Obtain a comprehensive health history which includes mind-body-spirit, nutrition, and the use of conventional, complementary and integrative therapies and disciplines.
• Obtain a comprehensive assessment that includes physical, social, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of health and wellbeing.
3. Collaborate with individuals and families to develop a personalized plan of care to promote health and well-being which incorporates integrative approaches including lifestyle counseling and the use of mind-body strategies.
• Collaborate with individuals and families to develop a personalized plan of care.
• Employ evidence-informed interventions to support and augment the healing process moving from least intensive and invasive to more, depending on the need and context.
• Employ effective educational strategies that encourage patient engagement in symptom self-management and strategies that improve whole person wellbeing.
4. Demonstrate skills in utilizing the evidence as it pertains to integrative healthcare.
• Employ evidence-informed interventions to support and augment the healing process moving from least intensive and invasive to more, depending on the need and context.
5. Demonstrate knowledge about the major conventional, complementary and integrative health professions.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with those who receive care, those who provide care, and others who contribute to or support the delivery of prevention and health services care management.
• Engage diverse healthcare professionals who complement one's own professional expertise, as well as associated resources, to develop strategies to meet specific patient, family and community health needs.
6. Facilitate behavior change in individuals, families and communities.
• Effectively examines readiness for change and employs coaching techniques that facilitate adoption of interventions that support health and wellbeing in individuals, families, and communities.
• Employ effective educational strategies that encourage patient engagement in symptom self-management and strategies that improve whole person wellbeing.
7. Work effectively as a member of an interprofessional team.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with those who receive care, those who provide care, and others who contribute to or support the delivery of prevention and health services care management.
• Engage diverse healthcare professionals who complement one's own professional expertise, as well as associated resources, to develop strategies to meet specific patient, family and community health needs.
• Engage in continuous professional and interprofessional development that improves team performance and quality of care while ensuring that care is delivered safely, effectively, and efficiently.
8. Engage in personal behaviors and self-care practices that promote optimal health and wellbeing.
• Demonstrate personal behaviors and self-care practices that reflect optimal health and wellbeing.
9. Incorporate integrative healthcare into community settings and into the healthcare system at large.
• Contribute to local, regional, national and international policies that support wellbeing across populations.
• Collaborate with communities to identify population-based health needs and develop culturally relevant plans that facilitate whole person/whole system healing.
• Effectively coordinates care across the healthcare continuum, mobilizing health care and supportive services in a cost-effective manner and managing transitions that minimize patient/family vulnerability.
• Employ technology to improve the quality and safety of health interventions delivered to individuals, families, and populations and to facilitate communications and functions of the care delivery team.
• Adopt behaviors that create a healthy eco-system capable of sustaining health and wellbeing.
10. Incorporate ethical standards of practice into all interactions with individuals, organizations and communities.
• Deliver care in manner consistent with ANA Code for Nurses, state regulatory requirements, and professional practice standards.
• Advocate for social justice, equity, and ethical policies within all healthcare arenas.

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