Past Events

Past Events

Free Virtual Program

The MRCSC invites you to register for a free virtual 90-minute Spring Program entitled Healing the Caregiver: Sustaining Self-Wellbeing Practices in Stressful Times. This program is scheduled for Thursday, April 28, 2022 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm. The speakers will explore healing practices for the caregiver through the lens of Caring Science, including mindfulness, reflective practice, meditation, and other mind-body-spirit renewal practices. The speakers will be:

A. Lynne Wagner, EdD, MSN, RN, FACCE, HMCT, Caritas Coach®, Faculty Associate, Watson Caring Science Institute;

Danielle Leone-Sheehan, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor of Nursing, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA;

Christine McNulty Buckley, DNP, MBA, RN, CPHQ, NEA‑BC, Caritas Coach®, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University, and a Mindfulness Practitioner; and

Rachael Salguero, MSN, RN-BC, CNEcl; Instructor, School of Nursing, MGH Institute of Health Professions.

Each speaker brings expertise, insight, and experience in various aspects of caring science and nursing practice that guide compassionate self-care healing practices, especially needed in these extraordinarily challenging pandemic times.

All health professionals and students from every setting and role are invited to attend and will find the program meaningful and grounded in caring science philosophy and healing practices. Contact Hours will be awarded.

Please visit the MRCSC (Consortium) website page at https://mrcsc.org/events/mrcsc-spring-2022-program/ for the unfolding program details and for registration. The program has no fee, but registration via the website is required. Please email Lynne Wagner directly

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Holistic Stress Management Course

Brian Luke Seaward will be retuning to New England to offer the Holistic Stress Management instructor course for health care professionals LIVE in Hartford Ct on May 19-22 this spring! 

This certification workshop is designed to train health educators with an interest and background in “Holistic Stress Management” to teach, direct or facilitate quality presentations/workshops at their worksite or private practice. The focus of this workshop is holistic—honoring the integration, balance and harmony of mind, body, spirit and emotions for optimal well-being. The World Heath Organization cites stress as “a global epidemic.” Others now call it the “black plague of the 21st century.” In light of current world issues, from international terrorism, economic uncertainty, climate change, work-life imbalance, increases in chronic diseases and everything in between, the words “change” and “stress” are becoming synonymous. It is no secret that people’s coping skills for change are underdeveloped and certainly underutilized. The purpose of this workshop is two-fold: 1) to gain a sound background in a holistic approach to stress management, addressing not only the causes of stress through effective coping skills, but the symptoms of stress with effective relaxation techniques, and 2) to refine excellent teaching skills in which to share this knowledge most effectively, whether it is through a one-hour presentation or a 16 week college credit course.

* 54 Contact Hours through the American Holistic Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation

* 24 CHES (Level I) professional contact hours are available through the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, NCHEC.

https://www.brianlukeseaward.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/MayHartfordCTHSMW2022.pdf

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Integrative Nursing Symposium

Fourth International
Online • April 27 – 29, 2022

Register at IntegrativeNursingSymposium.com

Join nurses from around the globe from April 27-29, 2022, for the Fourth International Integrative Nursing Symposium, which will be held completely online.

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November 2021

Greater Boston Nursing Collective (GBNC): Integrative Nursing Fellowship Application

The GBNC is a not-for-profit organization comprised of seven hospitals and four Schools of Nursing.* Your hospital is a founding and participating member. The Integrative Nursing Fellowship has been designed to create and reinforce a sense of the Greater Boston Nursing community, evidence-based whole person/whole systems care, relationship-based care and healing environments and professional resilience.  Composed of clinical, experiential, mentored and didactic learning opportunities, the goal of the fellowship is to reconnect and prepare nurses to practice holistically and experience joy in their practice.

Integrative Nurse Fellows will spend an average of 12 hours per month between January – June 2022, including two all-day off-site meetings, mentoring sessions, prep time for assignments and presentations and four-90 minute monthly virtual group meetings. Two nurses and two mentors from each of the seven hospitals will participate in this inaugural 6-month pilot. An institution-based mentor is paired with each Fellow and together they will have access to a GBNC facilitator as well. The pair will participate in didactic learning opportunities including lectures, reading assignments, reflective practice interventions, narrative writing and sharing and develop a self-care plan. This learning will be further supplemented with self-paced study of a curriculum specifically created for the fellowship.

During their time as an Integrative Nursing Fellow, the nurse will continue to work at their main clinical site while working 12 hours per month as a Fellow.

Learning Outcomes: across all domains Knowledge, Attitudes & Skills

1. Discuss & interpret the 6 integrative principles of nursing while caring for clients   
2. Demonstrate the selective application of the full range of evidence-based therapeutic modalities while caring for patients
3. Analyze different healing and restorative practices that contribute to person-centered and relationship-based care (promoting relationship to improve patient & nurse coping)
4. Plan interventions that promote relationship-based care and healing environment to enhance the patient and nurse’s resilience.
5. Support professional resilience through commitment to self-care

Minimum requirements for applicants:

• Ideally 6-12 months of RN experience for Fellows, minimum 2 years of experience as RN for mentors
• Currently employed at founding institution (*)
• Expressed interest in whole person/whole systems nursing
• Ability to reserve 12 hours per month of fellowship time, to be paid as regular, scheduled hours

Application process opens on November 1, 2021

Application deadline: November 12, 2021.

Please email your application attachments to greaterbostonnursing@gmail.com

Selected candidates will be contacted for interviews November 15, 2021

Accepted Nurse Fellows will be notified by December 1^st. All applicants & potential mentors are encouraged to request January 20^th as a conference day in the event your application is successful. Fellows/Mentors will begin the Fellowship program on January 20, 2022.

Application Details

Interested applicants should submit via email to greaterbostonnursing@gmail.com

____Curriculum vitae (PDF preferred)

____Curriculum vitae of your mentor (PDF preferred)

____A letter of intent of 500 words (or less) which should address the following (PDF preferred):

• Why the applicant is interested in an integrative nursing fellowship
• The applicant’s personal/professional background and preparation for the Fellowship to date
• The applicant’s own learning objectives and any specific areas of clinical and/or research interest
• How the applicant envisions the Fellowship will support their future impacts.

____One letter of commitment from a mentor in your home institution.

____Two(2) Letters of Recommendation; one letter must be from current immediate supervisor (PDF preferred)

• Letters should reflect the character, leadership, advocacy, and clinical expertise of the candidate and potential of mentor

* Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston College, Boston Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Northeastern University, Simmons University, Tufts Medical Center, University of Massachusetts, Boston.

May 11th
Integrative Nursing Conference

Join us for the 11th Annual Integrative Nursing Conference in honor of Nurses Week!

https://www.bmc.org/medical-professionals/nursing/integrative-nursing-conference

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May 2021
Online Holistic Stress Management Instructor Workshop with Brian Luke Seaward, Ph.D.

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Holistic Stress Management Instructor Certification

This certification workshop is designed to train health educators with an interest and background in “Holistic Stress Management” to teach, direct or facilitate quality presentations/workshops at their worksite or private practice. The focus of this workshop is holistic—honoring the integration, balance and harmony of mind, body, spirit and emotions for optimal well-being.

The first class is Monday January 11; however, it will be recorded so you can watch at a later date if you decide to join and cannot attend tomorrow night. Luke has offered to extend the price for early bird registration-just email and ask him! His email appears under ‘cc’ above. Here is the link for the program:

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OCTOBER 27, 2020
11 am – 12 noon
Free Online Continuing Education Program
Caring for Nurses Amid Covid-19
Massachusetts Regional Caring Science Consortium
Since 2013, the Massachusetts Regional Caring Science Consortium (MRCSC) has remained committed to provide nurses, other health providers, and students with opportunities to explore the philosophy, ethic, and caring-healing practices for self, colleagues and patients.

With the cancellation of the September 2020 MRCSC half-day conference because of COVID-19, the MRCSC has worked with Endicott College and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University to offer a free online Zoom one-hour CE program on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 from 11 am to 12 noon.

The current pandemic has elevated the need for cultivating resiliency and self care to new heights, particularly for nurses. Register for the MRCSC’s free, one-hour, online CE program,Caring for Nurses Amid Covid-19: Mindfulness and Cultivating Resiliency,on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 11 A.M to 12 Noon.   As a Caring Science Scholar with expertise in mindfulness practice and support of clinical teams, Christine McNulty Buckley, DNP, MBA, RN, CPHQ, NEA‑BC, Caritas Coach®, Assistant Dean and Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University, will lead us in reviewing practical strategies to care for ourselves and our community as nurses. By attending to our wellbeing using mindfulness practices and appreciative inquiry, participants will have the opportunity to explore tools to help develop a personal resiliency plan through the lens of Caring Science.

Current program details are posted on the MRCSC website (www.mrcsc.org). The MRCSC Virtual Zoom offering is co-sponsored by Endicott College School of Nursing and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University.  It is free to attend, but registration at the MRCSC website (www.mrcsc.org) is required.  The Zoom link to join the presentation will be sent out to all registrants before the meeting. One (1) contact hour will be offered to all participants who attend the whole meeting and complete a program evaluation. Please contact Lynne Wagner directly at alynne@mrcsc.org for any questions. 
Please share this opportunity and information with other colleagues. Thank you.