This is a 4-module, self-paced, online course for nurses and nurse coaches, based on the book, Re-Imagining the End of Life: Self-Development & Reflective Practices for Nurse Coaches. (The book is a winner of the American Journal of Nursing’s “Best Books of 2019” award in the categories of Professional Issues and Palliative Care & Hospice.)
Nurse coaching conversations involve presence, skillful listening, significant questions, reflection, and planning. They help guide individuals living with chronic and serious illness to make decisions about care and treatment within the framework of their own life story.
By opening these conversations earlier in the trajectory of illness, we open the possibility of transforming how people experience the last part of their lives.
In this end-of-life care nursing education program, participants will find tools, skill-building, and reflective practices that encourage them to explore their personal beliefs and values about aging, advanced illness, and dying.
Original price was: $399.00.$199.00Current price is: $199.00.
Beginning February 2, 2026, all INCA specialty programs will follow an on-demand learning model. Learners may register at any time and complete the program at their own pace. Once enrolled on or after February 2, you will receive immediate course access and have 12 months from the date of registration to finish all coursework and earn your certificate and continuing nursing education contact hours.
If you register before February 2, 2026, your course access will begin on February 2. Your 12-month access period will start on that date.
This flexible structure supports working nurses, variable schedules, and diverse practice environments—allowing you to begin and progress through the material when it works best for you.
Live Learning & Zoom Participation Requirements
Most specialty programs include optional or recommended live Zoom sessions with faculty.
All sessions will be recorded and posted in the course.
To receive a Certificate of Completion, learners must either:
Attend at least 1 live Zoom sessions, or
Watch the recordings of at least 1 sessions
Attendance tracking and/or brief reflection confirmation may be required.
This ensures meaningful engagement, community learning, and applied understanding—while still supporting schedule flexibility.
Assignments include short, open-note quizzes, discussion forum posts, and reflective questions.
Nurses contribute to the transformation of end-of-life care.
by engaging with patients and families in coaching conversations throughout the continuum of illness.
When nurses work from a coaching perspective, they help individuals and families to create goals that are based on what matters most to them.
By opening up the conversations with people living with chronic and advanced illness, nurses help them to live more intentionally and with greater wellbeing.
This shifts the trajectory of how people then come into the last part of life – and affects the decisions they make.
For nurses and nurse coaches, the ability to be compassionately present with people who are seriously ill and dying is often related to the nurses’ willingness to reflect on their own beliefs and worries about aging, illness, and dying.
End of life nursing, and this course, is for all nurses, including nurse coaches, hospice and palliative care nurses, and end of life nurse practitioners, who are wanting to expand their focus to include end of life…nurses who work with seriously ill people who want to learn about coaching practices…or nurses who want to take more leadership in open conversations about preparing for the end of life.
The Integrative Nurse Coach Academy is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC’s) Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 17700.
Jan Booth MA, RN, NC-BC, has worked as a nurse for many years at the intersection of quality of life and end of life, as a hospice/palliative care nurse and as an end-of-life coach and educator. She serves as faculty for the Integrative Nurse Coach Academy and the Conscious Dying Institute, presents workshops on the transformative possibilities of end-of-life care, and is the author of Re-Imagining the End-of-Life: Self-Development & Reflective Practices for Nurse Coaches.
Course Textbook available on Amazon in Kindle/e-Book Format and paperback.
Each module gives you the time needed to read, reflect, write and develop insights to create a plan of action.
You will have 1 year to complete course requirements.
There are quarterly live web sessions that provide an opportunity to talk with the author and other nurses taking the course. All will be recorded and posted. 1 session (live or recorded) is required to complete course requirements and obtain contact hours certificate.
You will need to order the paperback book through Amazon as the book contains required readings. Reimagining the End of Life: Self- Development and Reflective Practices for Nurse Coaches by Janet Booth.
This course is provided online, so internet access is required.
Nurses can make a big difference in how people experience the end of their lives.
Most people in our modern health care system still come unprepared into the end of life – their own, and those of their loved ones. Much of peoples’ suffering seems to come from this unfamiliarity with the journey at end of life – and their not knowing how to prepare.
Preparation for the last part of our lives would ideally start long before people become hospice-appropriate.
Nurses and nurse coaches care for patients in their most vulnerable moments, from birth through death. They have the opportunity to ask open questions about what matters most to people all throughout the trajectory of illness.
However, without opportunities for self-reflection, talking about end of life can be an uncomfortable conversation for most nurses and other health care professionals.
This course will help you build skills and capacities for these important conversations – as well as give you a re-imagined perspective on what might be possible if we talked more openly about living and dying.
Beginning February 2, 2026, all INCA specialty programs will follow an on-demand learning model. Learners may register at any time and complete the program at their own pace. Once enrolled on or after February 2, you will receive immediate course access and have 12 months from the date of registration to finish all coursework and earn your certificate and continuing nursing education contact hours.
If you register before February 2, 2026, your course access will begin on February 2. Your 12-month access period will start on that date.
This flexible structure supports working nurses, variable schedules, and diverse practice environments—allowing you to begin and progress through the material when it works best for you.
Live Learning & Zoom Participation Requirements
Most specialty programs include optional or recommended live Zoom sessions with faculty.
All sessions will be recorded and posted in the course.
To receive a Certificate of Completion, learners must either:
Attend at least 1 live Zoom sessions, or
Watch the recordings of at least 1 sessions
Attendance tracking and/or brief reflection confirmation may be required.
This ensures meaningful engagement, community learning, and applied understanding—while still supporting schedule flexibility.
Assignments include short, open-note quizzes, discussion forum posts, and reflective questions.
Original price was: $399.00.$199.00Current price is: $199.00.
End-of-life nursing care and nurse coaching conversations involve presence, skillful listening, significant questions, reflection, and planning.
They help guide individuals living with chronic and serious illness to make decisions about care and treatment within the framework of their own life story.
By opening these conversations earlier in the trajectory of illness, we open the possibility of transforming how people experience the last part of their lives.
In this program, nurses will find tools, skill-building, and reflective practices that encourage them to explore their personal beliefs and values about aging, advanced illness, and dying.
