Functional Nursing + Lifestyle Nursing Dual Certificate Pathway
Original price was: $3,890.00.$3,490.00Current price is: $3,490.00.
Programs Launch February 2, 2026 – Register by January 11th to save $200
Functional Nursing and Lifestyle Nursing each offer a distinct, evidence-informed perspective on whole-person health. When taken together, they provide nurses with a uniquely comprehensive framework that blends root-cause understanding with behavior-change–driven healing — something no single program can deliver on its own.
Functional Nursing helps you see the patterns, story, terrain, and underlying contributors to health using the Functional Medicine Matrix through a nursing lens. You learn to recognize the relationships between systems, identify what may be driving imbalance, and translate those insights into safe, nursing-scope action.
Lifestyle Nursing prepares you to guide sustainable change using the Six Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine and the science of behavior change. You learn how to support healthier habits, navigate barriers, address social determinants, and help patients implement evidence-based lifestyle practices.
Together, these two frameworks give you:
A deep, systems-level understanding of how health conditions develop
Evidence-based lifestyle strategies that help patients create sustainable change
A whole-person, whole-systems approach grounded fully in nursing scope
Stronger tools for supporting chronic disease prevention and improvement
A unified framework you can apply in any setting — from bedside to private practice
This dual pathway is designed for nurses who want to practice with a higher level of clarity, intentionality, and integrative perspective — and who want to make a meaningful impact using nursing-scope interventions that support long-term health and healing.
Functional Nursing helps you understand why patterns develop. Lifestyle Nursing helps you support how change happens. Together, they give you unmatched clarity and depth.
You want tools that help you understand patterns, teach lifestyle practices, and support patient behavior change within nursing scope.
Dual-trained nurses are uniquely prepared to work in health promotion, prevention, chronic disease programs, wellness centers, or private nurse coaching.
This pathway enhances your coaching conversations with deeper systems insight and evidence-based lifestyle strategies.
You will learn to connect physiology, story, lifestyle, behavior, and environment into one coherent framework that empowers real change.
The dual pathway blends two powerful bodies of evidence — Functional Medicine concepts and Lifestyle Medicine principles — into a cohesive nursing practice model.
How the PROGRAM WorkS
You receive full access to Functional Nursing and Lifestyle Nursing, each with 12 modules, monthly meetups, discussion forums, and learning resources.
You must complete the requirements for both courses within one year of your enrollment date to receive your certificates and contact hours.
Even after your one-year completion window closes, you retain lifetime access to both programs’ video lessons and slide decks.
INCA is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the ANCC. You will receive contact hours for each course upon completion of requirements.
Each course offers its own series of monthly meetups (live attendance optional; recordings provided). You may attend any combination that fits your schedule.
Engage with peers and faculty inside dedicated discussion communities for Functional Nursing and Lifestyle Nursing.
Each program includes open-book quizzes, reflective prompts, and learning activities to reinforce your learning.
You will earn certificates in:
Functional Nursing and Lifestyle Nursing each offer powerful, evidence-based frameworks on their own. But when combined, they give you an unmatched whole-systems approach that strengthens your ability to understand complexity, guide sustainable change, and support healing within nursing scope.
Together, these programs help you work with both the “why” behind health patterns and the “how” of behavior change — creating a complete, integrative foundation you can use in any practice setting.
Functional Nursing helps you understand physiology, story, patterns, and underlying contributors. Lifestyle Nursing teaches you how to turn those insights into sustainable change.
You’ll connect medical history, lived experience, environment, and behavior into one coherent whole-person understanding.
You’ll have both root-cause lenses and lifestyle strategies that help patients improve metabolic, cardiovascular, and stress-related conditions within scope.
Nurses educated in both Functional Nursing and Lifestyle Nursing bring a rare, integrative skill set that is valuable in acute care, primary care, community health, and private practice.
The combination of systems reasoning + behavior change prepares you for deeper client transformations and more effective coaching relationships.
Some patients need better nutrition, sleep, and stress strategies. Others need meaning-making, pattern recognition, or help understanding the “why.” Dual training lets you support both.
The Dual Certificate Pathway brings together Functional Nursing and Lifestyle Nursing to give you a unified, whole-systems approach to health. This pathway is ideal for nurses who want to master both the “why” behind health patterns and the “how” of sustainable lifestyle change.
When you enroll in both courses, you save $500 and gain access to two complete learning experiences—each with one year of access, self-paced modules, monthly meetups, flexible pacing, and contact hours provided by an ANCC-accredited provider.
Learn more about each program by clicking below.
Offered in educational partnership with the Institute for Functional Medicine, Functional Nursing teaches nurses how to understand patterns, story, systems, and root contributors to health through the Functional Medicine Matrix—adapted specifically for nursing scope. This course helps you interpret complexity, identify what may be driving imbalance, and translate those insights into safe, effective nursing actions that support whole-person healing.
Lifestyle Nursing teaches nurses how to guide therapeutic lifestyle change using the Six Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine and evidence-based behavior-change strategies. This course helps you support sustainable habits, address barriers, and promote prevention and chronic disease improvement—all within a nursing-scope, whole-person framework.
Programs launch February 2, 2026!
Secure early registration pricing through January 11th.
Original price was: $3,890.00.$3,490.00Current price is: $3,490.00.
More than 30% of our students receive support from their employers to take our program.
All INCCP students and alumni receive a discount on specialty programs. Login to automatically apply your discount.
We honor our active-duty military members, veterans, and military-spouses with a 10% discount on all of our programs.
INCA is committed to making our programs accessible to all nurses. Multiple payment options are available, including:
No. You receive access to both courses immediately, but you may complete them in any order and at your own pace.
However, because this is a bundled pathway, you must complete the required assignments for both programs within 12 months of your enrollment date to receive your certificates and contact hours.
Yes, 150+ contact hours. Exact contact hours will be announced in December 2025.
Integrative Nurse Coach Academy is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 17700.
Learners typically spend 4–8 hours per module, depending on their background and learning style.
Both courses are fully self-paced, and you choose when to engage with modules, meetups, and discussion forums. With consistent weekly progress, most learners complete both programs well within the 12-month window.
Starting February 2, 2026, you will have course access within 1 business day of registering.
Note: Course opens February 2, 2026!
You will receive two separate certificates upon completion:
Functional Nursing: A Functional Medicine Framework for Nurses
Lifestyle Nursing: A Lifestyle Medicine Framework for Nurses
Each certificate comes with its own set of ANCC contact hours provided by INCA.
Yes. You will have lifetime access to the course videos and slide decks.
You can return to the material at any time, even after you’ve completed the program.
However, to earn your certificate and contact hours, you must complete all required components within 1 year of your enrollment date.
Each program has its own series of monthly web meetups. Live attendance is encouraged, but optional, and all sessions are recorded.
You may choose the meetups that best fit your schedule — or watch recordings when convenient.
No. There are no nationally recognized nursing specialty certifications in Lifestyle Medicine or Lifestyle Nursing. Lifestyle Medicine is not formally regulated as a nursing specialty by ANCC, AHNCC, or any other national nursing credentialing organization.
Some programs may offer a “certificate” or “certification,” but these are educational certificates, not official nursing specialty credentials. Nurses should always verify who is issuing any Lifestyle Medicine “certification” and whether it is a legitimate, nationally recognized credential.
The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) does offer a lifestyle medicine certification pathway, but it is intended for an interdisciplinary group of licensed health professionals. ACLM determines all eligibility requirements, exam criteria, and accepted professional credentials.
Our Lifestyle Nursing Program provides a strong, nursing-aligned foundation in Lifestyle Medicine principles, behavior change, and therapeutic lifestyle interventions. However, it does not confer a regulated nursing specialty certification.
Yes, you may enroll in one course first and upgrade later.
However, the $500 savings is only available when you enroll in the Dual Certificate Pathway upfront.
If you plan to take both courses, enrolling in the pathway is the most cost-effective option.
The Functional Nursing Program and the Lifestyle Nursing Program are complementary but distinct. Each course teaches a different part of whole-systems, integrative nursing practice.
Lifestyle Nursing teaches evidence-based lifestyle interventions and behavior-change strategies based on the six pillars of Lifestyle Medicine.
You’ll learn practical ways to support patients in improving nutrition, movement, sleep, stress, social connection, and substance use.
This course focuses on how change happens and how to guide patients in adopting healthier habits.
Functional Nursing focuses on root-cause reasoning and whole-systems understanding. You’ll learn how to interpret patterns, story, physiology, stress, lifestyle, and environment through the Functional Medicine Matrix—translated fully within nursing scope.
This course teaches you why patterns occur and how to understand the deeper contributors to imbalance.
Functional Nursing = root causes, systems thinking, patterns, story, Matrix, terrain.
Lifestyle Nursing = lifestyle behaviors, evidence-based interventions, coaching for habit change.
Both align with nursing scope and complement each other. Many nurses choose to take both through the Dual Certificate Pathway to gain a complete, whole-person practice framework.
A $500 discount is provided when signing up for both programs simultaneously.
The Dual Certificate Pathway is ideal for nurses who want a comprehensive integrative approach:
Nurse coaches wanting both clinical reasoning + behavioral tools
RNs and APRNs in acute, primary, or community care
Nurses pursuing wellness-focused or preventative-care roles
Anyone wanting to unite systems thinking with lifestyle change
Those planning a private nurse coaching practice
If you want a full whole-systems + whole-person framework, the dual pathway offers the strongest foundation.
You may request a refund in writing to support@inursecoach.com within 1 business day of registering for the program.
However, once you have accepted the course invitation or accessed course materials, you are no longer eligible for a refund.
All approved refunds will have a minimum 6% processing fee deducted to cover transaction and administrative costs.
No. Nurse Coach Board Certification eligibility is only granted by completing the Integrative Nurse Coach® Certificate Program (INCCP).
This Functional Nursing course does not meet the eligibility criteria required by the American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation (AHNCC) for the NC-BC or HWNC-BC examinations.
However, if you are already a Board-Certified Nurse Coach, this course does provide ANCC-accredited contact hours that can be used to meet the continuing education requirements for renewing your Nurse Coach certification.
You have one full year from your enrollment date to complete all course requirements, submit the final evaluation, and receive your certificate. This one-year completion window cannot be extended for any reason, and enrollment cannot be paused or put on hold.
Even after your one-year completion window closes, you will continue to have lifetime access to the course videos and slide decks.