The MRCSC 2023 Autumn is scheduled for Wednesday, October 25, 2023, from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM ET. The program is the second part of this year’s Caring Science in Action presentations: Part 2—Developing Caring Relationships in Nursing Practice Settings. It features an interprofessional panel of nurses and other health care practitioners from different care settings, all of whom practice from a caring science perspective. Each speaker will present examples of caring science in action and how they incorporate caring-healing practice in their self care, patient care, and interdisciplinary relationships within their systems that promote healing outcomes of self, patient and system well-being.
Nurses and nursing students from every setting and role, as well as other health care providers, are invited to attend and learn practical ways to create and incorporate caring practices. There is no fee, but attendees must register via the MRCSC Fall Program page on this website. Contact Hours will be awarded. Registration will open on July 18.
Caring Science in Action, Part 1—Developing Caring Relationships in Academic Settings was the MRCSC Spring program this year. It featured presentations and discussion focusing on essential preparations needed for caring teaching and learning, sustaining caring faculty and student relationships, and ingredients of caring teaching-learning academic programs.
Welcome to the Massachusetts Regional Caring Science Consortium (MRCSC) website. The MRCSC mission is to increase opportunities for nurses in all roles and other health care providers to reconnect with core values and the heart of their healing profession. The MRCSC is a forum for nurses and other health care professions to share and explore Caring Science and caring practices that foster and sustain personal and professional well-being and growth, healing relationships, healthy work environments, and best outcomes in patient care. Toward this goal, the MRCSC offers local no-fee semi-annual or annual conferences in partnership with schools of nursing or health care institutions.
This website serves to increase communication about and registration for the local MRCSC conferences, as well as to provide information about other local, national, and global Caring Science and caring practice initiatives, educational opportunities, and conferences.
“Nursing’s [and other health profession’s] social, moral, professional, and scientific contributions to human kind and society lie in its commitment to sustain and advance human caring values, knowledge, practices, and ideals in theory, practice, education, and research…” (Watson, J. (2012). Human Caring Science: A Theory of Nursing, Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.)