Incredible Health offers free 50-state accredited continuing education to all nurses
Dr. Iman Abuzeid · How I Built Resilience: Dr. Iman Abuzeid of Incredible Health · Nov 25, 2020 · at 4:28
Dr. Iman Abuzeid, CEO and co-founder of Incredible Health, explains the platform's initiative to subsidize nursing license renewal requirements.
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“So for Incredible Health specifically, you know, we provide free continuing education to every single nurse in the country. Continuing education is needed to renew and activate their licenses, and they usually have to pay out of pocket for it, you know, just on continuing education, which is, you know, those are courses that you do after you become a nurse. You know, we figured this is crazy. Let's just give it away for free. It's accredited in all 50 states, and they can just simply get it done inside the incredible health application.”
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