APPENDIX B: Resources for Health Care Providers
Health Care Provider Wellness
Nursing retention toolkit: Improving the working lives of nurses in Canada – Canada.ca
National Standards: Workplace Wellness – Mental Health Commission of Canada
Self-Care: Resources for Health Care Workers | CAMH
3 Ways To Make Feedback In Healthcare An Act Of Caring | Radical Candor
Books:
Dornan, W. (2016). Restoring the Healer: Spiritual Care for Health Care Professionals. Templeton Press.
Wheatley, M. (2024). Restoring Sanity: Practices to Awaken Generosity, Creativity & Kindness in Ourselves and Our Organizations. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Facilitating Integrative Health Care (IHC)
PositivePsychology.com Blog – Helping You Help Others
Hope Note – Healing Works Foundation
National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health > Home
NatMed Pro (therapeuticresearch.com)
Resources for Health Care Providers | NCCIH (nih.gov)
Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (TCI) (who.int)(Watch for new documents, including the next WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy in 2025)
WHO Traditional Medicine Updates
*See also: Appendix D: IHC-Related Books
Anti-Oppression, Reconciliation, and Decolonization
Calling In and Calling Out Guide (harvard.edu)
Calls to Action Accountability: A 2023 Status Update on Reconciliation – Yellowhead Institute
CCDI Diversity and Inclusion Toolkits for the Workplace
Summary-First-Peoples-Second-Class-Treatment-Final.pdf (wellesleyinstitute.com)
NCCIH – National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health > Home
Racism in Health Care – Canadian Nurses Association (cna-aiic.ca)
Tools to Take Action Against Inequities and Racism | CMA
Advancing IHC
About us – Healthcare Transformers
Advancing Holistic Healthcare: Traditional, Complementary and Integrative (carleton.ca)
Creating change: Kotter’s Change Management Model in action – PubMed (nih.gov)
Integrative medicine, a new landscape of healthcare innovation – will it work? (linkedin.com)
IHC PD Opportunities
Practice:
Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health
https://imconsortium.org/page/education
Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine (numerous webinars, courses and programs) https://integrativemedicine.arizona.edu/about/index.html
Continuing Education for Health Coaches | Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing
https://csh.umn.edu/for-community/continuing-education/continuing-education-for-health-coaches
California Institute of Integral Studies
Master’s in Integrative Health Studies | CIIS
Canadian Interdisciplinary Network of Complementary Medicine Researchers (INCAM) (Conferences & Webinars for researchers, educators, practitioners, and students)
HEAL-IM | UCI School of Medicine
Home – INCAM (incamnetwork.ca)
Canadian Institute of Integrative Nursing Development and Education (The CIINDE). Several courses and certifications for nurses, accredited by several nursing organizations. Education – The CIINDE
Caritas Coach Education Program® (CCEP) – Watson Caring Science Institute
https://www.watsoncaringscience.org/education/caritas-coach-education-program-ccep/
Integrative Health Webinars Free Webinars | Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing (umn.edu)
Integrative Nursing Webinars (Free; Live and/or Recorded) Continuing Education Overview | Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing (umn.edu)
Integrative Health and Healing Doctorate of Nursing Practice Integrative Health and Healing DNP | University of Minnesota Online (umn.edu)
Integrative Pharmacy Specialist Certificate | freeCE
Integrative Nursing Specialization [5 courses] (UMN) | Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/specializations/integrative-nursing
Master of Arts in Integrative Health Studies Degree – MUIH
NCCIH Multilevel Intervention Training Institute (MLTI) Course Modules (Archived)
Research:
National Centre for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), US: NIH. NCCIH Training and Career Development Opportunities | NCCIH (nih.gov) (Archived)
Canadian Interdisciplinary Network of Complementary Medicine Researchers (INCAM)
CCRF Guidelines – INCAM (incamnetwork.ca) (See also ‘News & Events’)
Environmental Health
Communicating on climate change and health: Toolkit for health professionals (who.int)
Environmental Influences on Health: A Holistic Nursing Assessment by Susan J. Luck.
Practitioners’ Sustainable Primary Care Toolkit – CASCADES Canada
Integrating Sustainability into Healthcare Quality Improvement Education Playbook – CASCADES Canada
Environmental Advocacy
Organizations:
ANHE – Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (envirn.org)
Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment (CANE-AIIE)
Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care – The Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care
Health Care Without Harm (noharm-uscanada.org)
Leadership for the Ecozoic (l4ecozoic.org) (Inspired by Thomas Berry’s work)
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) (nih.gov)
The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) (aaemonline.org)
WHO | World Health Organization (Search ‘Environmental Health’ for newest documents)
Resources:
E-Textbook – environmental health in nursing (Download free e-text from Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE)
Health Care Without Harm: Resources (noharm-uscanada.org)
NatMed Pro (therapeuticresearch.com) (Search ‘Environment & Global Health’ & ‘Medical waste)
Position statements – Canadian Nurses Association(can aiic.ca) See links to: Climate Change & Health; Environmentally-Responsible Activity in the Health Care Sector; Nurses & Environmental Health; Toward an Environmentally-Responsible Canadian Health Sector
Position statements | ICN – International Council of Nurses
Under ‘A. Nursing Roles in Health Care Services’ see: Anti-microbial resistance
Search environmental issues such as the following:
Health Care Waste: Role of Nurses and Nursing
Nurses, Climate Change & Health
Reducing Environmental and Lifestyle-related Health Risks
