Managing Heart Failure with Integrative Care

Course Overview

Heart failure affects more than 6 million adults in the U.S.—but with the right knowledge and strategies, it's possible to improve outcomes and quality of life. In this non-credit, self-paced online course, you’ll learn how integrative care approaches—such as nutrition, movement and behavior change—can reduce the risk and impact of heart failure. Grounded in evidence-based practice, this course offers practical tools for healthcare providers, caregivers and anyone seeking to better understand heart failure through a whole-person lens. 

Who Should Enroll

This non-credit course is ideal for nurses, therapists, social workers, counselors, psychologists, primary care providers, case managers and wellness coaches seeking to enhance patient-centered, holistic care. 

What You’ll Learn

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Define heart failure and recognize its most common causes and symptoms
  
• Understand the role of integrative lifestyle interventions in preventing and managing heart failure
  
• Apply evidence-based strategies—such as physical activity, nutrition and stress management—to reduce the risk and burden of heart failure

Course Outcomes

Through practical guidance and real-world examples, you’ll learn how integrative care—blending physical, emotional, nutritional, and lifestyle support—can be used across healthcare settings to deliver compassionate, effective care to individuals with heart failure. 

This non-credit course is part of the  Applications of Integrative Care Badge and can be applied toward the Integrative Care Certificate Program. 

Continuing Education Credit

Category 1

Creighton University Health Sciences Continuing Education designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

AAPA accepts AMA category 1 credit for the PRA from organizations accredited by ACCME. 

AAPA

Creighton University Health Sciences Continuing Education has been authorized by the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Nurse CE

Creighton University Health Sciences Continuing Education designates this activity for 1.0 contact hours for nurses.  Nurses should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Pharmacy

Creighton University Health Sciences Continuing Education (HSCE) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education (CPE). Managing Heart Failure is accredited for 1.0 hour(s) for completion of all CE Sessions from May 1, 2025-April 20, 2026. Managing Heart Failure is a knowledge-based activity. 

Dental

Creighton University is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider.

ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit by hours by boards of dentistry.

Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to ADA CERP at www.ada.org/goto/cerp.The Creighton University School of Dentistry designates this activity for 1.0 continuing education credits.

Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, Creighton University Health Sciences Continuing Education (HSCE) is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.