Agenda
The Agenda for the October 8 2024 presentation follows. A downloadable PDF version is also provided.
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16th Massachusetts Regional Caring Science Consortium Conference (9th Virtual)
Nurses As Change Makers, Part 2: Cultivating Caring-Healing Culture in Practice Settings
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024 (Virtual Program) ~ 11:00 am to 12:30 pm ET
Sponsored and supported by the Massachusetts Regional Caring Science Consortium; Cummings School of Nursing and Health Sciences, Endicott College, Beverly, MA; and the MGH Institute of Health Professions
Purpose: This program will address the call for nurses to be Change-Makers in transforming nursing education approaches and health care settings through caring science practices.
Program Objectives/Subjectives:
As a result of this educational activity, participants will be able to
- Explain one teaching method in nursing education that begins to build Self-Care practices.
- Identify one outcome of co-creating a caring transpersonal community of learners in an online teaching/learning environment.
- Describe the role of Caring Science-informed interdisciplinary team simulations in creating a healing-caring environment of presence and human dignity in patient care.
- Describe the impact of compassionate self-care practices on reducing staff burnout and improving work environments.
- Identify one self-care healing modality that helps nurses reduce personal and professional stress in practice settings.
Program Content:
11:00 – 11:05 am Welcome and Orientation (A. Lynne Wagner, EdD, MSN, RN, FACCE, HMCT, Caritas Coach®; Co-Founder of the MRCSC and Rachael-Salguero, PhD, MSN, RN-BC, CNEcl)
11:05 am – 12:05 pm Panel of Caritas Nurses: Caring Science Projects that create Healing Changes in Practice Settings—moderated by Danielle Leone-Sheehan, PhD, RN, Caritas Coach®
- Infusing Caring Science into an Undergraduate Nursing Curriculum: Cathleen Colleran, DNP, MSN, RN, Caritas Coach®, Director of DNP Program, University of New Hampshire
- Creating a Healing Environment in the Digital World of Learning: Based on Watson’s Caring Science: Lynne King, DNS, RN, AHN-BC, Caritas Coach®, Nurse Educator and Consultant, Maine
- The Power of Authentic Team Presence at Birth: Elisabeth Howard, PH.D., CNM, FACNM, RN, Caritas Coach®; Midwife, Women-Infant Hospital, RI & Professor of OB-GYN, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, RI
- Self-Care Wellness Program for Perioperative Nurses: Incorporating Watson’s 10 Caritas Processes: Josette Renda, MSN-ED, RN, , CAPA, Caritas Coach®; Clinical Nurse Manager, MGH, Boston, MA
- Caring in the Middle: Leading an Ambulatory Care Center on a Caritas Journey Toward Self Care: Kimberly Leger, MSN, NE-BC, RN, Caritas Coach®; Faculty; BWH Center for Nursing Excellence, Boston, MA
12:05 –12:25 pm Discussion /Conversation with Panelists—moderated by Christine McNulty Buckley, DNP, MBA, RN, CPHQ, NEA‑BC, Certified MBSR & Koru Mindfulness Teacher, Caritas Coach®
12:25 – 12:30 pm Closing Comments & Program Evaluations Process (Danielle Leone-Sheehan, PhD, RN, Caritas Coach®)
Please note that there is NO conflict of interest or commercial support disclosed by planners, speakers, or content reviewers, in relation to this educational activity.
Dear Participants: It is heart fulfilling that the MRCSC, a Regional Consortium of the Watson Caring Science Institute, has grown from spontaneous informal small group meetings in 2013 to far-reaching in-person and virtual programs. The programs offer a forum for exploring and sustaining caring-healing practices and outcomes for nurses, other health-care practitioners, and students in clinical/patient care, leadership/ administration, and education settings. The MRCSC exists only through the dedicated MRCSC Executive Leadership Team collaborative work and the gracious and generous support of hosting institutions in Massachusetts and other New England states, as well as our speakers who volunteer their time. We are filled with gratitude for the many people and the 10 institutions to date, who have contributed to the success of the MRCSC and, of course, for the growing number of nurses, students, and other health care practitioners who attend and help enrich ongoing programs and conversations. Please visit the MRCSC website (www.MRCSC.org) to learn more about our history, leadership team, our hosting and supporting organizations, our speakers, as well as other caring science learning opportunities and resources. It takes a community to advance Caritas practices.
The MRCSC Executive Leadership Team welcomes all with loving care and is honored to present this Program:
- A. Lynne Wagner, EdD, MSN, RN, FACCE, HMCT, Caritas Coach®, WCSI Faculty Associate, Nurse-Educator Consultant in caring practices and mentoring programs; Co-Founder of the MRCSC.
- Danielle Leone-Sheehan, PhD, RN, Caritas Coach®, Associate Clinical Professor of Nursing, Northeastern University, Boston, MA; clinical nurse Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
- Christine McNulty Buckley, DNP, MBA, RN, CPHQ, NEA‑BC, Certified MBSR & Koru Mindfulness Teacher, Caritas Coach®, Associate Professor, Cummings School of Nursing and Health Sciences, Endicott College, Beverly, MA.
- Rachael Salguero, PhD, MSN, RN-BC, CNEcl, Instructor, MGH Institute of Health Professions, School of Nursing, Boston, MA; clinical nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Special thanks and gratitude to our five panelists today for their dedication to be Caritas Coach change-makers and for their generous sharing. Much gratitude to: Dr. Amy Smith, Dean, Cummings School of Nursing and Health Sciences, Endicott College, Beverly, MA, who graciously supported the Contact Hour application; MGH Institute of Health Professions Faculty, Dr. Rachael Salguero, who provided the Zoom Meeting platform; and local partnerships, which are critical in sustaining the Consortium mission and vision.
Thanks also to all who attended and participated today in meaningful caring dialogue that has the capacity to change how we care for ourselves and attend to the caring-healing and teaching-learning of others.
Contact Hours: 1.5 Nursing Contact Hours have been applied for this program by the Massachusetts/ Rhode Island League for Nursing (MARILN), an approved provider of continuing nursing education.
For attendees to receive certificate of contact hours, both attendance at the entire program and submission of an evaluation form at the end of the program are required.
NEXT MRCSC PROGRAM: MRCSC will offer the next virtual program Spring 2025. Topic to be announced. Watch for date and program focus and title on MRCSC website and email announcements.
Please visit the Massachusetts Regional Caring Science Consortium (MRCSC) website (www.mrcsc.org) for information on its history, mission and vision, and past and future programs. Please visit the Watson Caring Science Institute (WCSI) website (www.watsoncaringscience.org) for more information about Dr. Jean Watson, Watson’s Unitary Caring Science, study programs, and some fee-based, as well as free learning opportunities.
Downloadable version of agenda
Short Bios of Speakers
The Bios for the scheduled presenters follow. We thank them all for their willingness to contribute their time and experiences.
Bio–Cathleen Colleran, DNP, MSN, RN, Caritas Coach®
Dr. Colleran is the Director of the DNP program at the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Colleran holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice in Nursing Education from Regis College, an MSN in Community Health Nursing from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth and a BSN from Husson College/Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine. She has held many leadership positions in academia and practice settings. She is a certified WCSI Caritas Coach (CCEP) and a WCSI Caritas Leader. She is committed to fostering an environment of Caring and self-care for the next generation of nurses.
Bio–Lynne King, DNS, RN, AHN-BC, Caritas Coach®
Dr. King, is an Advanced Holistic Board Certified Nurse and Caritas Coach who recently left a position at Pacific College of Health and Science where she was Dean of Nursing and Professor. The RN-BSN program was holistically endorsed by the AHNCC. As Dean she led the faculty in the creation of a pre-licensure holistic 4-year BSN program. In addition, she supported faculty in creating the first Nurse Coach MSN program in the country and attaining initial ACEN accreditation. Her MSN and DNS degrees were in Nursing Education and Leadership. Her research program for her Dissertation and beyond have surrounded Faculty to Faculty Incivility, in Nursing Education. She has experienced both working in caring and non-caring nursing education environments and believes that implementing Watson’s Human Caring theory in the nursing education environment will lead to better transpersonal relationships between faculty, faculty and students and student to student. She is currently self-employed as a consultant and is active in the newly formed Maine Chapter of AHNA.
Bio—Elisabeth Howard, CNM, Ph.D., FACNM, Watson Caritas Coach®
Elisabeth Howard (Liz) is a Midwife at Women and Infants Hospital RI. She has been a CNM for 35 years and is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Alpert Medical School, Brown University. She received her BA in Sociology from William Smith College, her MSN from Yale University, and her PhD in Nursing from Vanderbilt University. She is a Watson Caring Science Institute Senior Scholar. She has conducted research on physiologic birth, reproductive decision making. quality of life, and interprofessional education. She has served as the American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM) representative to the National Quality Forum and as the project manager for Women and Infants quality improvement project with the Healthy Birth Initiative: Reducing Primary Cesarean Project, the multi-hospital nation-wide quality learning collaborative. She is the contributing editor for the Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing’s Clinical Expert Column, associate editor of the book Obstetric Triage Protocols, and author over 50 peer reviewed publications.
Bio—Josette Renda, MSN-ED, RN, CAPA, Caritas Coach®
Josette Renda has a Masters of Science in Nursing Education. She is a Certified Ambulatory Perianethesia Nurse (CAPA) and a certified Watson Caring Science Caritas Coach, graduating from the Caritas Coach Education Program. Josette worked at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the Perianethesia Department, introducing caring science practices, and currently works at Mass General Hospital as a Clinical Nurse Manager in the Perianesthesia area, with a continued interest of infusing into nursing settings caring science compassionate, healing practices, such Integrative therapies of Reiki, Meditation, and walks outside.
Bio—Kim Leger, RN, MSN, NE-BC, Caritas Coach®
Kimberly Leger is an experienced healthcare professional with over 25 years in practice and 15 years of nursing leadership. She received her Master of Science in Nursing Leadership from Framingham State College and is currently enrolled in the University of New Hampshire DNP program. She is a Watson Caritas Coach.
Kimberly serves as faculty for Brigham and Women’s Hospitals Center for Nursing Excellence as an instructor for Psychological Safety and Wellbeing: Responding to Workplace Violence and Incivility course – a four-hour high-fidelity simulation class. She is a certified yoga and barre instructor.
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Information from Change Makers, Part 1 Program
The agenda and handout materials for the April 16, 2024 MRCSC Presentation, Nurses as Change Makers, Part 1 are presented below. These PDF documents may be downloaded.