Graduate Nursing Education for Integrative Nursing

Graduate nursing education provides an opportunity to advance knowledge about integrative nursing and the effects of this approach to care on patient and systems outcomes. Graduate programs for advanced practice and their focus on organizational and systems leadership, quality improvement, interprofessional collaboration, and advanced practice align with professional competencies and provide the foundation for translating integrative nursing principles into clinical care. There is both a “reclaiming” of authentic nursing values and practice and “laying claim” to new and evolving models of health care. This chapter focuses on how concepts and principles of integrative nursing can inform innovative graduate nursing curriculum and transform advanced nursing practice. Examples of integrative nursing curricular opportunities are provided, and recommendations to increase and sustain education reform are presented.