Massachusetts Regional Caring Science Consortium – Exploring Caring Practices in Healthcare

Our concern, caring and grateful thanks go out to all those who are working to help us deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, and particularly to those who are in the forefront, caring for the Ill.

Save the date: Tuesday, October 27, 2020

MRCSC is offering a free online CEU Program, entitled, Caring for Nurses Amid Covid-19: Mindfulness and Cultivating Resiliency, on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 from 11:00 am to 12:00 noon. More details are posted on the EVENTS page of this site.

Please Note: The September 29, 2020 MRCSC conference at Endicott College, entitled The Power of Nurse Caring and Community in Turbulent Times: Cultivating Resiliency with Mindfulness and Storytelling, has been postponed as a response to COVID-19.

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.)

Next Consortium Conference

Join MRCSC for a free, one-hour, online CEU 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 well being 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. Go to the EVENTS page for details.

Most Recent Consortium Conference

The theme of the 7^th Massachusetts Regional Caring Science Consortium (MRCSC) conference was The Power of Caring Science Practices to Create Healing Work Environments, featuring Dr. Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, (LL-AAN), renowned nurse theorist of Caring Science. It was held November 5 at UMass Worcester Graduate School of Nursing. Because reservations to the conference were quickly filled, an afternoon Fireside Chat with Jean Watson and Joan Vitello on Holistic Nursing was added. Both sessions were well attended and, we believe, proved a rewarding experience to attendees. The audio recording of the afternoon session is accessible at – https://echo360.org/media/687769e6-e946-486c-b67d-df3dfccea709/public. We thank UMass Worcester Graduate School of Nursing for providing the venues and, for the morning session, the excellent breakfast and continuing education credits; the volunteers who helped organize and run the conference; UMass Worcester Medical School, Graduate School of of Nursing staff for their generous efforts and cooperation; and of course the speakers, particularly Dr. Watson and Dr. Vitello, for sharing their time and expertise.