Clinical Acupressure for Nurses: 5 Bedside Points Every Holistic Nurse Should Know
Every nurse knows the feeling: a patient is in pain, anxious, or nauseated, and the next
available intervention is twenty minutes and a phone call away. Clinical acupressure won't
replace a physician's order, but it can close that gap — a hands-on, evidence-informed tool a
nurse can reach for immediately, at the bedside, with nothing more than their own two hands.
That's the idea behind Clinical Acupressure: 5 Points You Can Use at the Bedside, the
hands-on workshop by Nurses for Natural Health is hosting on Saturday, September 12,
from 9:30–10:30 AM ET. It's a single, focused hour built around five acupressure points nurses
can start using in their very next shift — for pain, anxiety, nausea, sleep, and stress.
Why Acupressure Belongs in a Nurse's Toolkit
Acupressure works on the same meridian system as acupuncture, but without needles — steady,
targeted pressure on specific points, applied with the fingers or thumb. It's simple enough to
teach a patient to do for themselves, safe enough to layer alongside standard care, and fast
enough to use in the middle of a busy shift. For holistic and integrative nurses in particular,
it's one of the clearest examples of what "integrative care" actually looks like in practice:
not an alternative to conventional nursing, but a complement to it — another tool that supports
the whole person, not just the chart.
The Five Points, and What Each One is For
The workshop is built around five points, each mapped to something nurses see constantly:
Pain. A go-to point for general pain relief that patients can also learn to use themselves
between visits, making it one of the more empowering techniques a nurse can teach
Anxiety. A fast, two-minute technique for the moments when a patient's anxiety spikes and
there isn't time for a longer intervention — useful before a procedure, during a difficult
conversation, or simply during a hard afternoon.
Nausea. One of the most requested skills among the nurses who ask us about acupressure —
nausea is common, disruptive, and not always fully addressed by medication alone.
Sleep. A simple point nurses can use themselves after a long shift, or teach to patients
who are struggling to rest in an unfamiliar hospital bed.
Stress. The fifth point closes the loop by acknowledging that stress isn't only a patient
issue — it belongs to the nurse in the room too.
Each point is taught with an emphasis on safety: where it's appropriate, where it isn't, and how
to apply it correctly so it's something a nurse can use with confidence starting the same day
they learn it.
What The Workshop Includes
This is a live, 60-minute, CE-approved session — $25, with registration open now for the
September 12 date. It's designed for any nurse curious about integrative approaches to patient
care, whether or not they've taken a holistic nursing workshop before. No special equipment or
prior training is required; the only prerequisite is a willingness to learn something you can
use immediately.
Register for Clinical Acupressure: 5 Points You Can Use at the Bedside
Looking further ahead: The Integrative Nursing Certificate
Workshops like this one are, by design, a single afternoon and a single skill. But many of the
nurses who come to us for one workshop end up wanting the fuller picture — how acupressure,
nutrition, mindfulness, and the other modalities we teach actually fit together into one
coherent approach to practice. That's exactly what we're building toward with the **Integrative
Nursing Certificate**, NFNH's first course of its kind: a 48-contact-hour, entirely self-paced
program set to launch in January 2027. It's still early, and we'll share full details as the
launch date approaches, but if you've ever finished one of our workshops wanting to know "what's
next," this is the answer we've been building.
A Practical Place to Start
Holistic nursing can sound abstract until you have a specific technique in your hands. Clinical
Acupressure: 5 Points You Can Use at the Bedside is meant to be exactly that: not a philosophy,
but five concrete tools you can carry into your next shift. If you've been curious about
integrative approaches to patient care but haven't known where to begin, this hour is a
low-cost, low-commitment way to find out.
Registration for the September 12 workshop is open now, and seats are limited to keep the
session genuinely hands-on. We'd love to have you join us.