Mary Enzman Hines RN, PhD, CNS, CPNP, AHN-BC
President

Glenda Christiaens PhD, RN, AHN-BC
President Elect
presidentelect@ahna.org 

Cindy Bultena RN, MSN
Network Coordinator

Cindy Bultena earned her nursing degree in 1974 from Rochester Community College, her Bachelors in Community Health from Mankato State University and her Masters in Nursing Leadership from the University of Minnesota. Ms. Bultena spent 16 years as a nurse and administrator at Midway Hospital before it closed in 1997. She then transitioned into the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of opening Woodwinds Health Campus. As the Executive Lead of Healing and Clinical Coordination, Ms. Bultena is instrumental in the creation and integration of Woodwinds’ holistic patient-and-family centered care model. Beyond her commitment to HealthEast and Woodwinds, she is actively involved in community and professional organizations, including AHNA, Minnesota Organization of Leaders in Nursing, Inner Life of Healers Advisory Board, Inver Hills Community College President’s Advisory Board and the Mount Olivet Church Council; she also volunteers in her children’s school. 
 
Mary Koithan PhD, RN-C, CNS-BC
Education Coordinator

Mary Koithan recently assumed one of the Education Coordinator positions on the Leadership Council after providing assistance with the AHNA Education Department since 2002. She brings expertise in American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Continuing Nursing Education Provider and Approver Accreditation Standards having served on the ANCC Commission on Accreditation since 1993 in several capacities, including chairperson between 2004 and 2007. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Arizona (UA), College of Nursing, an assistant research professor at the University of Arizona, College of Medicine in Family and Community Medicine, and core faculty for the Arizona Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research Training Program (T-32) at UA.

Dr. Koithan is certified as a clinical nurse specialist in home health nursing with a focus on adult chronic illness. This practice and a philosophical perspective informed by complexity and Rogerian sciences provides the basis of her current program of research, which is focused transformational healing as a whole-person outcome of complementary/holistic therapies. Dr. Koithan has studies funded by NIH/NCCAM, NCI, and private foundations to explore this phenomenon in Native American populations, persons with cancer and other chronic illnesses, and nurses. She is the project director and Principal Investigator for the Tucson Holistic Healing Initiative for Nurses (THHIN), a community-based participatory intervention that supports nurses’ holistic self-care and the adoption of optimal healing environments in acute care facilities.

In looking forward, Dr. Koithan would like to create strategic alliances between AHNA and other organizations to further develop nurses’ understanding of the promise of holism for our healthcare systems and our lives.


Mary Anne Hanley RN, PhD, QTTT
Education Coordinator 

For the past 20 years Mary Anne Hanley has engaged in the study and application of Rogers Unitary Science as the theoretical underpinning of nursing as a healing practice. She is particularly involved with Therapeutic Touch (TT) as a means of providing palliation and symptom management to support patients and their healing processes.

Since 1997, Ms. Hanley has formally explored theoretical constructs derived from Rogers’ framework and conducted qualitative research projects to explore the nature of Therapeutic Touch used with preterm infants, resulting in a description of TT for preterm infants that may be used in clinical practice and research. 

She has taught Therapeutic Touch as a nursing and healing modality for 19 years in a variety of settings, including academic courses and CNE programs, and is recognized as a Qualified TT Teacher and Practitioner by the Nurse Healers Professional Associates International, Inc.  She has published in refereed journals on the topic of healing and integrative nursing modalities that facilitate healing and has been a contributing author in texts related to nursing science and the concepts of healing and alternative therapies.  

Joyce Murphy RN, MSN, HN-BC 
Financial Coordinator

Joyce Murphy has been a AHNA member since 1995 and a local Network Leader since 2000. She credits holistic nursing with enriching her life and guiding her professional direction. She became an HNC in 1997, an AHN-BC in 2005, and a CHTP in 2006.

Ms. Murphy is an adjunct faculty member for Distance Nursing Education at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine. Her consulting practice serves groups and individuals with holistic nursing care. She provides health education for early care professionals throughout Maine to contribute to children’s lives. Ms. Murphy and her spouse live in the woods where she enjoys woodland photography. 

 
Rothlyn (Rorry) Zahourek PhD, APRN, BC, AHN-BC
Research Coordinator

Rothlyn (Rorry) Zahourek, PhD, PMHCNS-BC AHN-BC is a certified clinical nurse specialist in psychiatric mental health nursing and a certified advanced practice Holistic Nurse. She recently reshaped her work life and closed her private holistic psychotherapy practice in Amherst, MA. She continues as adjunct faculty at the University of Massachusetts, School of Nursing and is also a consultant, speaker and educator. She received her Bachelors in Nursing from Skidmore College, her Masters in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing from the University of Colorado and her Doctorate from New York University. She has presented and conducted workshops at national and international conferences on such topics as imagery, hypnosis, the use of collage to understand healing and intentionality, integrative-complementary approaches in psychiatric nursing, and dual diagnosis and addictions. She has over 50 publications on those topics and has edited and coauthored three books. One book, Imagery & Relaxation: Tools for Therapeutic Communication and Intervention won an AJN Book of the Year Award. She continues to research intentionality and healing and her book Intentionality: The Matrix of Healing was published July 2009 by VDM Verlag. Her research over the years has encompassed depression after stillborn loss and mental health consultation for nurses in a general hospital. She has been an active AHNA member and has served since 2005 as the coordinator for research on the AHNA Leadership Council. She believes that there are numerous ways to view, study and understand the person and the environmental whole and that holistic nursing research is grounded in a belief in unitary wholeness that is not limited to or dictated by a modality. Ms. Zahourek is grateful to live on a wonderful lake in western Massachusetts with her husband Jay Holtzman.  

Vicki Slater RN, PhD, HN-BC, CHTP/I
Practice Coordinator  

Vicki Slater, the new AHNA Leadership Council Practice Coordinator,  has had a private holistic nursing practice for 12 years in Clarksville, TN.  She offers a variety of hands on modalities, including Healing Touch, Therapeutic Touch, Reiki, Craniosacral Therapy, crystal healing, Clinical Aromatherapy, flower essences, hypnosis and guided imagery.  Sessions are unique for each client and it is common for a single session to include more than one modality.  In addition, she calls upon her more than 40 years of nursing experience as a cancer nurse specialist, rheumatology nurse, general medical-surgical nurse, hospice nurse, and undergraduate faculty member in 4 states to offer suggestions to her clients for self-care and self-healing. She teaches Healing Touch, Reiki, and Physics and Spiritual Healing for Healers and is the energy consultant to a research team at Vanderbilt University.  One of her primary interests is in identifying physics models that are similar to what she experiences doing energy healing. So far, she has discovered that magnetic induction may be a factor in energy modalities and in all human encounters.  Dr. Slater’s philosophy of holistic nursing is that the person is the key, not the modality or job.  The individual who lives a holistic philosophy that unites body with mind, Soul, Spirit, and environment will have a holistic nursing practice, no matter what the job title.