Greater Boston Nursing Collective
Sharing the Six Principles of Integrative Nursing
Excerpted from Designing Your Life: How to build a well-lived, joyful life
Here is a key element when you are wayfinding in life: follow the joy: follow what engages and excites you, what brings you alive. Work is fun when you are actually leaning into your strengths and are deeply engaged and energized by what you are doing.
Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
How well does what you are currently doing align with this?
The relationship between joy and gratitude was one of the important things I found in my research. I wasn’t expecting it. In my 12 years of research on 11,000 pieces of data, I did not interview one person who had described themselves as joyful, who also did not actively practice gratitude.
Brene Brown
Take a moment to think about what you are grateful for today and have a joyful day!
Carol
Tell your friends and colleagues and register now for the 7th Massachusetts Regional Caring Science Consortium conference, to be held at UMass Worcester Medical School/Graduate School of Nursing from 7:30 am to 12 noon, Nov. 5, 2019.
It is exciting to announce that the keynote speaker will be Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, (LL-AAN), renowned nurse theorist of Caring Science; Distinguished Professor Emerita and Dean Emerita, University of Colorado Denver, College of Nursing, Anschutz Medical Center; author of many publications; and Founder/Director of the Watson Caring Science Institute (WCSI). Dr. Watson will present Caritas Nursing ISthe Healing Environment. This is a rare and eventful opportunity to meet Dr. Watson, honored as a Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing and recipient of many awards, including 15 Honorary Doctorates, 12 of which are international. Dr. Watson’s Caring Science theory and practice model for quality human care have evolved since the 1970’s, and are founded on a humanistic, moral-ethical philosophy of loving-kindness, compassion, authentic presence, and transpersonal/transformative relationships and caring moments of human-to-human connections. She teaches and writes about caring with love (caritas) and healing practices that guide health care practitioners and health care systems worldwide to foster and sustain personal and professional well-being, healing relationships with colleagues and patients, and healthy work environments. These things support human flourishing and dignity and encourage the best outcomes in patient care. Caring Science fosters deeper dimensions and meaning to nursing science, humanizing each person’s health and illness experiences. For more detail about Dr. Watson’s biography and resume, publications, and theory of Caring Science, visit www.watsoncaringscience.org.
There will also be a panel of Nurse Caritas Coaches®, graduates of the WCSI’s ANCC-accredited Caritas Coach Education Program® (CCEP), which prepares nurses and other health care providers to coach, teach and implement caring-healing philosophy and practices. The Coaches will present their Caring Science projects that they launched in their acute care and outpatient care settings with healing outcomes. There will be time for interactive questions and sharing with all the speakers, as well as some take-home handouts. Join the presentations and conversation on Nov. 5, 2019 to renew your caring practices and heart of nursing.
Thanks to the UMass Worcester Graduate School of Nursing, the conference host, a continental breakfast and contact hours will be provided. Parking will be available for a nominal fee. Updated Conference agenda and details will be posted on the MRCSC website (mrcsc.org). There is no fee for the conference, but registration is required and early registration is recommended. Register on the MRCSC website at https://mrcsc.org/events/ or by contacting Lynne Wagner directly for information and registration at lynnewagner@comcast.net. All registrations will be confirmed. Registrants will receive conference details about the meeting room and parking before the conference.