Taruna College New Zealand is a centre for Adult Education offering an exciting range of formal and informal holistic courses and subjects inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner PhD. such as: Waldorf Teacher Education, Biodynamic Organic Agriculture, Anthroposophical Nursing, Art of Health and Coaching and Biography Workshops.

 Diploma in Holistic Healthcare
(Anthroposophic Nursing Aotearoa)

The Diploma in Holistic Healthcare (Anthroposophic Nursing Aotearoa) is a part time, three year programme for registered nurses seeking to extend & deepen their present nursing practice.

Anthroposophical nursing offers a new dimension by extending the art and science of nursing. The human being is seen as having a physical body that is permeated with living forces, an emotional and psychological expression and also a unique spiritual identity that reveals the individual biography. The nurse honours the freedom of every person, acknowledging that the healing process ultimately rests within that individual.

The anthroposophical nurse works out of her scope of nursing practice as a therapeutic advocate assisting in the restoration of wholeness, balance and health. The education programme for the anthroposophical nurse is personally challenging and confronting, awakening intuitive skills and enthusiasm that gives the individual the capacity to find a true relationship to the vocation of nursing.

This programme is unique as the only formal English-speaking anthroposophical nurses’ course in the world.

Based on a century of development in Europe, anthroposophical nursing is blossoming in New Zealand as nurses seek a fuller renewed way of meeting their nursing work.

Programme Outline
Entry Requirements
Dates aand Fees
Faculty
Rationale for the Programme
Testimonials from Graduates
An Article on Anthroposophical Nursing

This encompassing experience supports our heartfelt nursing practice.  At the completion of this training pathway the student will be able to:

• Extend registered practice with anthroposophical nursing maintaining currency and expertise in competencies

• Assess and interpret health and pathology in relation to an anthroposophical model of the human being

• Develop the capacity to work as a member of a therapeutic team within the anthroposophical model

• Plan, implement and assess anthroposophical nursing care through demonstrated expertise in the provision of external therapies

• Apply knowledge of healing plants and substances in nursing practice

• Pursue further research into anthroposophical nursing.

• Demonstrate therapeutic reflective practice

• Participate in a preceptor programme towards registration as an anthroposophical nurse with ANANZ

 Each year is based on a mixture of on-campus seminars (total 21 days per year) and self directed home-based study.
As a guide to the number of hours in studying, there is a notional 10 hours allocated to each credit, with 40 credits per year totalling 400 hours of study. Depending on your prior knowledge, skills and learning style, this may vary. The total hours includes the time spent on-campus at seminars, so the suggested home-based study hours to meet the theory and clinical-based requirements associated with the programme about 7 hours per week.