Transform Lives: Become a CREIGHTON MODEL FertilityCare Practitioner

Becoming a CREIGHTON MODEL FertilityCare System (CrMS) Practitioner offers numerous personal and professional benefits. As a Practitioner, you will:

  • Empower Women and Couples: Help individuals understand and manage their fertility through a scientifically researched, natural method that respects their health and well-being.
  • Make a Positive Impact: Provide invaluable support to those seeking to achieve or avoid pregnancy, as well as those facing reproductive health issues, all in alignment with their values and beliefs.
  • Promote Holistic Health: Work with a method that integrates family planning with overall reproductive health, offering a holistic approach that contrasts with artificial and suppressive techniques.
  • Foster Healthy Relationships: Teach a system that promotes mutual responsibility and cooperation between spouses, enhancing intimacy and respect within relationships.
  • Professional Growth: Expand your professional network and opportunities with medical consultants, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and nurse midwives. Be connected to the Saint Paul VI Institute, home of the CREIGHTON MODEL FertilityCare System and NaProTECHNOLOGY. <link to https://popepaulvi.com/>
  • Moral and Professional Satisfaction: Engage in work that aligns with ethical standards and provides profound personal and professional fulfillment by making a real difference in the lives of others.
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Saint Paul VI Institute Education Program

FertilityCare Practitioner Program Overview

The FertilityCare Practitioner Program is a 13-month program for training CrMS teachers. It is presented in two education phases and two supervised practica. Students also complete an on-site visit with their supervisor and take a final certificate examination.

Prospective Practitioners must meet one of the following criteria:

      1. Registered nurse with current license.
      2. Allied health professional with a BA or BS degree in:
        1. Health or basic sciences;
        2. Behavioral sciences;
        3. Social sciences;
        4. Education;
        5. Other non-health fields are individually recognized.
      3. Associate degree/diploma such as:
        1. Licensed Practical Nurse;
        2. Human Services Practitioner;
        3. The equivalent of two years of college study.

Further eligibility criterion requires that the applicant does not prescribe or refer for contraceptives, does not perform or refer for sterilization or abortion, practices (uses) a natural method of fertility regulation or, if single and celibate, monitors their natural fertility and is a philosophical acceptor of natural methods.

The Education Program determines dates and Course Fees.

There are advanced Education Programs as well for Educators, Supervisors, and Medical Consultants.