Nursing Acupuncture & Dry Needling Foundation Course

We proudly provide triple-locked quality assurance through our full FHT accreditation, as well as Breeze Academy and external moderator approvals, thus providing you with the confidence that our acupuncture and dry needling foundation course is vetted above and beyond the industry standard and meets the highest standards set in education.

On completion, you will be eligible to gain insurance cover and be able to practice acupuncture and dry needling as part of your usual practice. Members of professional bodies that include acupuncture as part of their insurance, such as the CSP, will not be required to take out additional insurance.

This foundation acupuncture course for nurses will teach you:

• To implement safe & effective acupuncture and dry needling techniques, throughout the body
• To create targeted acupuncture and needling protocols for the benefit of pain & wellbeing
• To appraise and synthesise the evidence base alongside clinical experience
• To adopt a pragmatic approach to clinical reasoning for needling interventions that complement your existing skills

In our foundation acupuncture course for nurses, you will receive a fully evidence-based approach to both the learning and application of acupuncture. This comes with comprehensive study materials provided within the online and face-to-face components of the course.

The evidence-based information you will learn from our foundation acupuncture course for nurses will allow you to make fully informed decisions on how and when to introduce acupuncture to a patient.

You’ll discover a large body of prominent, pertinent and up-to-date evidence supporting the use of acupuncture, whilst developing your needling skills to provide dramatic results for your patients, offering them a comprehensive package of pain relief and wellbeing. More specifically, after completing our acupuncture course for nurses, you will be able to demonstrate the following needling skills and theoretical knowledge:

• Effective needling techniques upon the four limbs, trunk and spine
• Suitable identification of prominent and commonly used acupoints
• An understanding of contraindications, precautions and potential side effects of acupuncture and dry needling
• Safe application of needling at all times
• Effective management of needling side effects

Upon successful completion of our acupuncture foundation course, you will be able to use acupuncture & dry needling on your patients as part of your everyday practice safely, confidently and effectively.

With theoretical knowledge and application reviewed from both a Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) perspective, this acupuncture foundation course for nurses takes you through a large number of applications and techniques, allowing you to confidently apply acupuncture for:

• Acute or persistent pain, anywhere in the body, including chronic pain and OA
• Stress and anxiety
• Overactive bladder
• Hot flushes/flashes
• General wellbeing

Our foundation acupuncture course for nurses is specifically for registered nurses who are looking to offer more to their patients. What’s more, adding acupuncture and dry needling to your skills base will enhance your CPD, and thus can advance your career and professional development.

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With global reputation and experience curated and delivered by our team of expert tutors, this foundation acupuncture course has a worldwide reputation, and has cemented Breeze Academy as one of the leading providers of acupuncture and dry needling training.

Our unique blend of online and face-to-face, carefully curated content, both before and after the in-person learning component, allows you to access high quality education whenever and wherever you want. This helps to reduce accommodation costs for those of you needing to travel to the face-to-face component, whilst also providing you the option to revisit learning in a much more meaningful and engaging format.

Our fully evidence-based approach and expert research knowledge is combined with practical, clinically relevant teaching to ensure you receive a fully evidence-based approach to the implementation of acupuncture. This course has clinical reasoning at the heart of delivery, making sure that you’re able to make fully informed decisions on how and when to introduce acupuncture into a patient’s care package.

Your online learning access will expire 1 month following the face to face component of the course.

You must be a registered nurse to attend our foundation acupuncture course for nurses.

If you have to cancel your course booking because of a covid-related issue, we will assign you to the next available course that suits you.

We’re happy to provide you with 10 days access to a free taster course. This taster course includes a small number of lessons from the full course, helping you to get a flavour for how we do things.

Check out the free taster course.