Durham, North Carolina, March 6, 2025 — The International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) announced that its 2024 Annual Conference has been approved for 21 continuing contact hours available for nurses and other healthcare providers through August 20, 2026.
This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by the American Holistic Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Topics covered in the conference sessions include near-death experiences, shared death experiences, terminal lucidity and many more. A complete list of sessions approved for continuing education credit may be found here.
Nurses play an essential role in providing care and support to patients and their significant others when people begin the dying process. Although every person alive today faces eventual bodily death, as a society, we simply don’t talk about death and dying enough, and nurses are called upon to provide information and support, often with little formal training, and IANDS hopes to contribute to closing the knowledge gap.
Content and information about obtaining a certificate may be accessed here. Registration fees for the educational materials cost $79 for IANDS members and $99 for non-members.
As a Durham, North Carolina-based educational nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, IANDS focuses its resources on providing the highest quality information available about NDE-related subjects. IANDS’s purpose is to promote responsible, multi-disciplinary exploration of near-death and similar related experiences, their effects on people’s lives, and their implications for beliefs about life, death, and human purpose.
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