2013 Workshops & Learning Objectives
Note: Workshops are identified as B=Beginner; I=Intermediate and/or A=Advanced to assist you in selecting a workshop for your experience level on that topic/content.
Tuesday Pre-Conference, Full-Day Programs
8:30am - 5:00pm (6 Contact Hours)
E01. Holistic Stress Management – Brian Luke Seaward, PhD….Holistic Stress Management (HSM) is so much more than taming the fight or flight response. It’s a dynamic approach to managing stress that unities the healing powers of the conscious and unconscious minds and calms the conflict between ego and soul. HSM applies effective coping and relaxation techniques that honor the integration of balance and harmony into the mind, body spirit and emotions. This workshop offers experimental learning through guided mental imagery, poetry therapy/journal writing, energy medicine, music therapy, and meditation techniques for personal growth and professional development
Track: Personal & Professional Development (B,I,A)
E02. Healing Touch: A Pathway for Wholeness and Change – Lisa Anselme RN, BLS, HN-BC, CHTP/I…In this workshop we will explore Healing Touch and its underlying energy principles and world view in application to self care, care for clients and transformative world change. This workshop will include content of energy field and pattern recognition, clinical application in target populations, conditions or situations, supportive research and both didactic and experiential work.
Track: Personal & Professional Development (B,I,A)
Tuesday Pre-Conference: Morning, Half-Day Programs
8:00am—11:30am (3.5 Contact Hours)
E03. Partnering with Plants: Reconnecting to our Holistic Nursing Roots through Botanical-Based Therapies – Valerie Cooksley, RN, OCN, FAAIM … Discover your integral connection to the natural world via the plant kingdom, and reclaim your aromatic-herbal nursing legacy as a holistic practitioner. The history of nurse aroma-herbalism will be explored as well as vitalism and botanical therapeutic applications. Whole plant medicine, essential oils, flower essences, hydrosols, and herbal infusions will be experienced as well as a guided meditation to bring us into union with green medicine.
Track: Practice (B,I)
E04. Healing Touch as a Practical and Effective Self Care Tool – Rumi Hashimoto, MSN, RN, HTCP/I…Discusses the need for self care for nurses along with practical ways to effectively implement it in daily life. Several self care tools will be explained and demonstrated, including specific Healing Touch methods to promote relaxation and reduce stress.
Track: Practice/Praxis (B,I,A)
WORKSHOP FULL E05. Holistic Leadership: The Key to Integrating Healing Arts in Healthcare Settings – Marie M. Shanahan MA, BSN, RN, HN-BC & Veda Andrus, EdD, MSN, RN, HN-BC.…It takes a visionary and courageous cultural change agent to bring together the vision, philosophy, theoretical model, research, and clinical practices to transform a healthcare organization. Lets’ beyond the dream and planning stages with proven methods to convey your ideas, strategies for successful implementation and unique remedies for when you’ve tried everything! Bring your organization’s mission
and vision statement and nursing department philosophy.
Track: Practice (I,A)
Tuesday Pre-Conference: Afternoon, Half-Day Programs
1:30pm - 5:00pm (3.5 Contact Hours)
E06. Contemplative Aromatherapy: Multi-sensory Chakra Balancing – Laraine Kyle Pounds, RN, BSN, MSN, CMT… Essential oils used with intention are valuable for vitalizing the energy centers of the body referred to as chakras and the corresponding elemental energies of earth, water, fire, wind and space. This experiential workshop will demonstrate ways contemplative aromatherapy can enliven and balance the flow of subtle energies throughout our body. We will incorporate multi-sensory healing practices including visualization, breath awareness, color, sound, movement, affirmations and meditation.
Track: Practice (B,I)
E07. Coaching for Joy, Health, and Success: A Holistic, Integral Approach – Linda Bark, PhD, RN, Master Certified Coach…teaches beginning coaching core competencies from a holistic/integral perspective so you can assist others and even yourself in a change process. The real power and uniqueness of a time-tested coaching model invites an exploration from an expanded framework. This facilitates faster and more authentic change and reduces false starts and wrong turns. This model is based on evidence based practice and theory and the skills can be applied to a clinical, organizational, and leadership setting by all health practitioners, and coaches. Novice, intermediate, and expert level holistic practitioners can benefit from this training because the focus is on coaching core competencies. Beginning, intermediate, and expert coaches will find this training useful because it is based on a holistic/integral approach.
Track: Practice/Personal & Professional Development (B, I)
Wednesday Pre-Conference: Full Day
8:30am - 5:00pm (6 Contact Hours)
1. Soul Lightening International: Seva Stress Release for Self and Others – Cynthia Kerr Salmond, DNP, CRNP, Kari Sand-Jecklin, EdD, MSN, RN, AHN-BC, Cathy Miller, MM, LMT, ABT… This workshop introduces that the human energy system both impacts and reflects the level of an individual’s health and wellbeing. The body’s energy pathways can be accessed and brought into balance through a variety of means, including acupressure. Activation of certain acupressure points in a prescribed order through interface touch can help to restore appropriate energy flow through the body, reducing the negative effects of stress on the body, mind and spirit. The Seva Stress Release protocol was developed based on the ancient Chinese medicine and Yogic teachings coupled with contemporary therapeutic methods.
Track: Practice/Personal & Professional Development (B, I)
2. Self-Identity through the Arts - Bonnie Berk, MS, RN, HNB-BC, ERYT, CCM, Jennifer L. Reich, PhD, MA, RN, ANP-BC & Pamela S. Crary, PhD, RN… Explores reclaiming our innate capacity as human beings for creative expression of our individual and collective human experience in artistic form. Participants an opportunity to explore music, movement, poetry, theater and drawing in an effort to help them connect to their inner selves, discover barriers to self-esteem and self-love and find ways to become more compassionate and caring to themselves and others. Integrated arts approaches to help children, adults and families to improve functioning related to psychological, developmental, physical and/or cognitive factors.
Track: Practice/Personal & Professional Development (B, I)
3. How Nurse Coach Principles Can Enhance Leadership Skills - Linda Bark, PhD, RN… Exploring nurse coach principles as a way of equipping themselves to become more successful nurse leaders. Coach concepts introduced and practiced will include the following: linking personal and professional inner visions; using story as an indicator of future success; considering new possibilities that come from multiple ways of knowing; and reinforcing self-care as an essential step in creating new options in healthcare. Leadership: One voice can change a room. One room can change a larger unit. One larger unit can change an organization. One organization can change a profession. One profession can change healthcare
Track: Personal & Professional Development (I)
4. Exploring the Art and Science of Holistic Nursing: Validation of Transformational Nursing Practice through Certification - Margaret Erickson, PhD, APRN, MSN, AHN-BC, Deborah Shields, RN, PhD, CCRN, QTTT, AHN-BC… Major Holistic Nursing philosophical assumptions as well as the five AHNA Core values will be presented, discussed and interactive experiences will be utilized to faciliatate immersion in and greater understanding. Focus will be two-fold: first, to help participants change their lives and nursing practice by incorporating the philosophy, information, and experiences acquired and learned in the workshop; and second, to help individuals prepare for the national holistic nursing certification examination, which affirms and validates their expertise as leaders in facilitating holistic healthcare transformation.
Track: Practice/Education/Research/Personal & Professional Development (B, I)
5. Self-Care Interventions for Clinical Nursing Practice: What is the Evidence - Cindy Barrere, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, Rorry Zahourek PhD, PMHCNS-BC, AHN-BC… Translation of research into practice is essential to advancing the nursing profession. Nurses will have increased confidence in the implementation of interventions that are based on solid evidence/research findings… how to examine the evidence for selected self-care interventions research and explore means for translation of these interventions into their daily lives and clinical practice.
Track: Practice/Education/Research (I, A)
Wednesday Pre-Conference: Half Day
8:00am - 11:30am (3.5 Contact Hours)
6. Complexity and the Nursing Science of Compassion - Mike Taylor, RN, MHA, CDE… Complexity science provides a radical platform for recasting the understanding and processes of all sciences including nursing, which has lead to great advances and increased crossdisciplinary sharing. Nursing which could have the most to gain from complexity science has also struggled greatly with effectively using it. In complexity science, health is not a static state of equilibrium but it is continually evolving emergent process of both the individual brain and society as a whole. In this new scientific paradigm, nursing has the opportunity to create a science of compassion. Physicians would remain the profession of disease while nurses would be the profession of health.
Track: Practice/Research/Praxis (I, A)
7. Cancelled
8. “Share Your Care” Marketing Education for Holistic Nurses - Creating a Professional Online Presence for a Profitable Practice - Ms. Marilee Tolen, RN, HN-BC, HTCP/I, INC…Will explore embracing the concept of online marketing for holistic nursing practice, business, or educational offerings by understanding the importance of marketing, helping to prepare marketing materials including website anatomy. Step by step process creation of marketing, tools and resources to create virtual products such as ebooks, ecourses, video trainings, setting up virtual coaching / consulting /healing opportunities for clients. The intention of the presenter is to make this information user friendly by keeping it low tech and high touch so the Holistic Nurse participant will leave the program feeling excited about marketing able to do this and not feel technologically overwhelmed.
Track: Practice/Education/Research/Personal & Professional Development/Aesthetics (I)
9. Strategic Possibilitarians: Nurses Transforming a Health System via Holistic Practice -Mary Natschke, RN, BAS, HNB-BC, IAC, Victoria Boyce, RN, MSN, AHN-BC, Kimberly Ronnisch, RN, BSN, HNB-BC, Gayle F Novack, MAOM, BSN, HNB-BC…Transforming health care from a reductionistic model to a more holistic model is a never ending journey. New reimbursement models call upon health systems to be more accountable to patients for the quality of care and services provided. We will present a case study of a 700 bed acute care hospital in an urban setting that is well into the journey of transformation to holistic nursing. The 6 year process is described along with structure, processes, and lessons learned.
Track: Practice/Education/Praxis (I)
Wednesday Pre-Conference: Half Day
1:30pm - 5:00pm (3.5 Contact Hours)
10. Holding and Releasing Suffering - Mr. Thomas Jay Browning, MA, RN-BC…The Latin root of the word “suffering” is “to bear.” Health care providers, must learn how to feel keenly without accumulating the weight of bearing our patient’s and families’ pain. The unconscious internalizing of this witnessed suffering can lead to impaired clinical ability, broken relationships, potential addictions and illness. Through guided exercises, participants are encouraged to form their own clinical wellness question to carry on the pilgrimage. Through the art of self-observation and assessment, defining perceptual lens, obstacles to successful self-observation, and finding balance in self-assessment. Basic meditation and breath work techniques are introduced. Then a discussion of emotional intelligence in relation to Trauma Exposure Response, surveying characteristics of emotional mind, the Autonomic Nervous System, hyperarousal, posttraumatic stress, emotional styles and methods for developing emotional intelligence.
Track: Practice/Education/Personal & Professional Development (I)
11. The Healing Art of Home Funerals - Susan Oppie, RN, BSN CHPN… Americans used to get up close and personal with corpses. After a loved one died, the family would bathe the body, dress it, hold vigil and prepare the final rite of passage. This allowed time for the heart to catch up with what the brain was already aware of, that loved one had died. In many countries around the world, this is still how it is done. Since the mid 1900's, we've been led to believe that when someone dies, funeral home staff must step in and take over. By allowing this, we have distanced ourselves from the closure of the circle of life as well as the holistic grounding for which Americans are yearning in healthcare. How can a society thrive when it separates itself from a fundamental truth and allows what should be considered a most precious and inalienable right to be taken away? "The Healing Art of Home Funerals" workshop is designed to assist holistic nurses to better understand the importance of having choice when it comes to caring for our dead. In a society that has become disconnected from death, much efforts is required to restore what has been lost. Nurses can play a crucial role in correcting this by reintroducing a more holistic and healthy approach to post-mortem care and in so doing help create a change which will positively affect the health of our nation as a whole.
Track: Practice/Education/Praxis/Personal & Professional Development/Aesthetics (B, I)
12. Charting the Course: Holistic Nurses Take the Helm - Kathleen Bartholomew, BS, RN, MN… Examine an in-depth look at the current healthcare culture, and then learn strategies for how to harness power and create synergy and vision in our teams and organizations. Holistic nurses are at the leading edge of healthcare reform. They perceived the need for change decades ago; developing cutting edge interventions to care for the whole patient and realizing how intricately self and community are entwined. Yet many nurses often feel alone in this quest, struggling to work in an environment that is too often embedded in archaic paradigms where peers insist on following ancient maps rather than looking to the stars. Participants will leave with an individual action plan for charting their own course in the high seas of healthcare reform.
Track: Practice/Personal & Professional Development (I)
13. The First Five Steps To Staring Your Own Holistic Business - Bobbi Kolonay, RN, MS CCM…Determine if they have what it takes to be an entrepreneur; understand the necessity of and be able to write a business plan; become versed in professional alliances for starting a successful business; have a working knowledge of what is needed to establish the legal structure of your business; the nuts and bolts of marketing; and the next steps to assist with growth.
Track: Practice/Personal & Professional Development (I)
Thursday June 6, 2013, 2:30-4:00pm
Workshops Block A (1.5 contact hours)
14. Research Papers #1
A. Joining Forces: Mantram Repetition Research to Improve
Quality of Life in Veterans with PTSD: Jill E. Bormann, PhD, RN
B. Meditation in the COPD population: Pilot Study: Roxanne Chan, PhD (c), RN
C. Internet-Delivered Mantram Program Improves Mindfulness and Spiritual
Well-being in Healthcare Workers: Jill E. Bormann, PhD, RN
Track: Praxis/Practice/Professional Development (A)
15. Nurse Manifest Dialogue: Nurse #65X89 and Creating The Future of Holistic Nursing Practice - Carey S Clark, PHD, RN, RYT… Engaging with the story of the journey of Nurse # 65X89 as she emerges from a dream of a highly technical medicalized healthcare world and into the reality of a futuristic holistic-caring nursing practice, presented in a dramatic style, the participant becomes engaged and motivated to create their own vision of the future of holistic nursing practice and education. Following the dramatic presentation, through dialogue and reflective practices, the participant is supported in developing a plan for their own evolution of consciousness related to healing and self-care practices.
Track: Practice/Education/Research/Personal & Professional
16. Waves of Possibility, Nurses of Tomorrow: Teaching Students Compassionate End-of-Life Care for Veterans - David Shields, MSN, RN, QTTT… Explore the unique hospice and palliative care needs of veterans and apply this knowledge in the development of curricula to teach nursing students how to holistically care for veterans and their families at the end of life. Joining Forces is a comprehensive national initiative designed to mobilize all sectors of society toward achieving the goal of ensuring that our nation’s military personnel and their families have the resources and support they need to complete their mission and return home safely. Integrating the knowledge and resources from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) ELNEC-For Veterans (2010) curriculum into the Scope Standards of Holistic Nursing, participants will design two strategies that can be utilized in their classroom settings. Inherent in this collaborative experience is the opportunity for holistic nurses to create space for transformation in healthcare and advocate for the creation of caring/healing communities that support veterans and the nurses of tomorrow who will care for them.
Track: Practice/Education (I, A)
17. Listening to the Songbirds Twitter - Fresh ideas for Holistic Nurses - Susan Rose, MSN, RN… Learn how you can keep fascinating alerts coming to you - for the newest information that has not yet hit the TV, newspapers or even web sites. It will also demonstrate how learning experiences are improved by tweeting by topic (specific hashtag #) for a class or conference. Will understand the full scope of tweeting and will learn how to sign up for this free account. Like Martha Rodger’s Unity Field, the clouds are full of meaningful tweets that may be passing around you unaware. Don’t miss out on the pleasure of hearing the songbirds tweeting useful, exciting content, as well as the opportunity to sing a few chirps yourself! Nurses need to realize how Twitter can enhance their holistic/medical knowledge practice.
Track: Practice/Education/Research/Personal & Professional Development (B, I)
WORKSHOP FULL 18. Holism and Interprofessional Education in Healthcare Reform: Explore the Possibilities - Mary A. Helming, PhD, APRN, FNPBC, AHN-BC… Healthcare reform indicators include the need for better skills with interprofessional healthcare delivery. Nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians, physician assistants, physical therapists, occupational therapists, social workers, diagnostic imagers, pharmacists and nutritionists, for example, all need to better comprehend each other’s professions and special skills. Healthcare reform data suggest that better interprofessional education even in the pre-professional component, as well as during later clinical learning, will enhance patient care immeasurably. With emphasis on the caring and healing aspects of healthcare, holistic concepts can be brought into many other disciplines where they may not currently exist, through interprofessional education (IPE). Experience with setting up a center for interprofessional healthcare education will be discussed, including development of mission and goals. Actual IP courses will be described including one on the examination and treatment of pain from multidisciplinary perspectives. An overview of numerous universities that have successfully incorporated IPE, and the benefits of IPE as discussed in the extant literature, will be included. Participants will be asked to develop action plans to incorporate IPE in their individual practice sites.
Track: Practice/Education/Personal & Professional Development (I, A)
19. Conducting Research on Holistic Nursing Endeavors in a Community Hospital - Anita Catlin, DNSc, FNP, FAAN, Marliee Ford, BSN, MA & Donna Lamke, MSN, FNP, RN…This presentation will depict four nursing research studies conducted in our facility. These studies include: 1. The use of Reiki and Therapeutic Presence during chemotherapy infusion to increase comfort and wel being 2. The use of Jin Shin Jyutsu Self Care for nurses to improve stress reduction and caring efficacy 3. The use of interview, art and survey to assess family needs of those who are at the bedside of patients with cancer. 4. The use of HeartMath emWave coherence training for physician and nurse stress reduction. These studies are consistent with Dr. Jean Watson’s Caring Science Theory which our facility has embraced. As we incorporate Caring Science into care for ourselves, our colleagues and our patients, the environment of our facility improves and becomes a model for others.
Track: Practice/Research/Personal & Professional Development (I)
WORKSHOP FULL 20. Scientifically Sound Nutritional Counseling for Holistic Nursing Practice - Linda M Raileanu, RN, MM/PA, BSN, Renata Maslowski, Ph.D., MBA… Recent scientific development, food science research and clinical trials begin to provide healthcare professionals with the scientific data needed to substantiate the use of food as medicine. This information used with an understanding of resistance to change will equip healthcare professionals with several practical ways to incorporate nutritional counseling into holistic nursing practices. Counseling clients to develop healthy eating habits is a powerful approach for those who desire to preserve health and enable successful disease management. The role of certain nutrient-rich foods and supplements is garnering research interest in the healthcare community and curiosity in the public arena. Educating health care professionals about recent scientific developments for top-researched foods and supplements to support lifestyle changes for personal development, to manifest improved health in client practices and to impact healthcare transformation through improved nutritional counseling. Is the goal.
Track: Practice/Education/Personal & Professional Development (I)
21. Faith Community Nursing Overview - Martha Holley-Jones, BSN, RN… Faith Community Nursing is an independent nursing practice, which does not involve ‘hands-on’ clinical nursing care. Instead, the nurse performs all duties with a special emphasis on the intentional care of the spirit. The spiritual aspect is key and nurses serve by actively promoting wellness, wholeness, and preventive health. The workshop will provide an overview of the specialty and the philosophy and focus of faith community nursing, its root assumptions, mission, purpose, etc. The workshop will explore ways that nurses can incorporate the specialty into their practices and provide practice resources, a sample of job descriptions for faith community nursing practice, and an overview of the
standardized basic preparation course content.
Track: Personal & Professional Development (B,I)
Friday June 7, 2013, 9:00am - 12:45pm
Workshops Block B1 (3.0 contact hours)
22. Research Symposia - Self-Care Research Panel: Challenges, Opportunities, and Outcomes - Facilitator: Rorry Zahourek, PhD, PMHCNS-BC, AHNBC, Panelists: Colleen Delaney PhD, RN, AHN-BC, Cynthia Barrere PhD, RN, AHN-BC, Pamela Crary PhD, Maryann Abendroth PhD, RN, Jen Reich PhD, RN, ANP-BC…This panel discussion will focus on the need for and actual self-care research with nursing students and practicing nurses. Five panelists will describe designs, challenges, processes and results from their respective studies which examined selected aspects of self-care for nurses. Session participants are invited to engage in informal discussions with panel members regarding these research implications. Panelists will provide examples of: 1)one need for self-care and self-care research, 2) complexity of developing a mixed-method multi-site research with graduate nursing students, 3) results of a correlational study of undergraduate nursing students’ stress, coping behaviors, mood and physical symptoms, and 4) implications of a qualitative study using narrative to describe self care and self-care needs of nurses.
Track: Research/Practice (B,I,A)
23. Cancelled
WORKSHOP FULL 24. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Body-Mind Connection: A new model for understanding and addressing the body-mind interactions within illness and health - Alison Shaw NP, LMT, CEH…Holistic nurses know that whole and lasting health is only possible when the underlying cause of a disease is addressed. The most powerful intervention we can offer our patients is to help them become aware of how their physical health reflects their emotional and mental makeup and vice versa. A comprehensive model for understanding how the mind-body connection affects physical and emotional health will be explored using the three levels of mind and body interaction; the Biochemical (an overview of neurochemical and psychoneuroimmunological principles), the Structural (principles of Bioenergetics and energy medicine), and the Symbolic (illness asmetaphor). The “anatomy and physiology” or mechanics of each level will be discussed, and participants will learn to recognize these connections in their own “bodymind” through experiential exercises.
Track: Practice/Education/Personal & Professional Development (I)
25. Holistic Advance Practice Nursing and Health Care Reform: A Dialogue - Dr. Mary Irene Enzman Hines, PhD, Mary Anne Hanley, RN, PhD, Beverly A. Gallagher, RN, DNP, FNP-C & Deborah Shields, PhD, RN, CCRN, QTTT, AHN-BC: This panel will discuss key issues facing the holistic advance practice nurse either working in a caring/healing praxis or trying to create one. Healthcare form will be reviewed and its relationship to the development of advance practices in holistic nursing as well as educational and practice issues that impact the preparation and support of advance practice nurses. Evidence based practice/research will be discussed that support the development of a caring healing praxis.
Track: Practice/Education/Research/Praxis/Personal & Professional Development (I, A)
26. Facilitating Holistic Nursing at the Bedside, in the Classroom, or as a Researcher Using Theory Based Practice - Margaret Erickson, RN, PhD, MSN, AHN-BC…Nurses can implement theory based care and philosophy in any setting or role. An overview of the relationship between nurse values, philosophy, theory and care is presented through discussion and participatory interactive exercises. Core concepts and philosophical assumptions related to theory based practice are presented, explored and examined within the personal context of the conference participants. Individual and group exercises are used to help empower nurses with new strategies, facilitate personal growth and insight, and utilize new knowledge to guide and transform their nursing practice.
Track: Practice/Education/Research/Personal & Professional Development/Aesthetics (B, I)
27. Practical Relaxation Therapies: Caring for Yourself to Care for Others - Sheila Stroman PhD, RN… Most nurses know of the value of relaxation techniques, but rarely practice these as part of their own self-care. The emphasis of this workshop is to provide information and practical exercises in various techniques. Participants will use selected tools to self-assess in order to raise awareness. They will review the effects of stress in their lives and the benefits of practicing the relaxation response. Experiential exercises are given to illustrate the following categories: mind-body-spirit connection, guided imagery/hypnosis, breathing exercises, affirmations, stretches, acupressure points, aromatherapy, and self-massage.
Track: Practice/Education/Research/Personal & Professional Development (I)
Friday June 7, 2013, 9:00am - 10:30am
Workshops Block B2 (1.5 contact hours)
28. Manifesting Holistic Change through the Clinical Scholar Interprofessional
Program - Susan M Hageness, DNP, RN, CNE, AHNBC & Stacey Kiesling, RN, BSN…Examine how the Clinical Scholar Inter-professional Program, an inter-disciplinary group of practitioners and educators, came together to address the healthcare needs of patients in the post-anesthesia care unit at a metropolitan medical center. The process, skills, and resources used to appraise the literature and implement the integrative/holistic care approach (clinical aromatherapy) to treat postoperative nausea and vomiting will be discussed, and the findings from the completed research study will be disseminated.
Track: Practice/Education/Research/Praxis/Personal & Professional Development (B, I)
29. Collaborating for Environmental Responsibility: Connecting, Inspiring, and Empowering Each Other - Ms Bonnie Denholm, MS, BSN, RN, CNOR…Define environmental health and provide examples of key areas where nurses can get involved, including healthier food, leaner energy, reducing waste, safety and transparency around chemicals, and smarter purchasing. Nurses can advocate for their communities, their own personal and family well being, as well as advocate for increasing sustainable practices in professional practice. Professional nursing standards and social policy statements can assist nurses articulate how and where environmental health is integral to our nursing practice and help with key values to include in messaging. Nurses can inspire each other by sharing stories of our own experiences and the diverse ways we have found to influence and create awareness and understanding for sustainable practices.
Track: Practice/Personal & Professional Development (B, I)
30. Healing with Space Technology: Evidence Based uses of Light Therapy - Ms Jill Laroussini, APRN, CNS, MSN…The ancient use of Light for its healing properties has been reinvented with NASA created Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). Research by NASA and others have ushered LEDs into clinical settings to help heal wounds, reverse peripheral neuropathy, reduce/prevent the incidence of oral mucositis in bone marrow transplant patients, reduce pain and inflammation, increase circulation, and improve depression and anxiety. LEDs have demonstrated neuroprotective properties and assisted those with traumatic brain injury (TBI) to regain cognitive function. Holistic nurses are well positioned by their philosophy and understanding of the body’s innate healing capacity to introduce/integrate this emerging technology in a variety of clinical settings for improved outcomes that will include reduced costs, reduced suffering and increased healing from light therapy.
Track: Practice/Education (B, I)
Friday June 7, 2013, 11:00am - 12:30pm
Workshops Block B3 (1.5 contact hours)
31. Prevention of Nurse Burnout Utilizing the Transcendental Meditation Program - Amy Auer Ruff, RN BSN WOCN, Sherry Levesque, M.Ed, MASCI…What is nurse burnout and what is it costing us as a profession and personally? What does chronic stress do to the brain? Explore the benefits of Transcendental Meditation for the brain, the health of the individual, behavior, and the environment and collective consciousness and identify the research data on the Transcendental Meditation technique; including how the TM technique differs from other meditations and summarize the research on differences
Track: Research/Personal & Professional Development (B, I)
32. Advancing Holistic Nursing in Your Facility : Successful Grant Implementation - Richelle Rapaport, RN, MSN,AHN-BC, PMHCNSBC, Mary Chereskin, RN, MSN…Holistic nurses acquire proficiency in patient care skills through education and experience, however there is often hesitancy to step into the role of project/grant coordinator due to a lack of administrative competency. The most important points of this presentation will be assisting holistic nurses to recognize their networking and personal/interpersonal strengths; learning the language of administrators and basic organizational skills; how to prepare oneself to seize opportunities to advance holistic nursing in their healthcare facilities through grant funding for practice changes: and encourage the participants to gain confidence in this expanded role. Successful grant application strategies will be presented and participants encouraged participants will join in activities to help them focus on their existing skills and knowledge begin to develop ideas in small groups, outline a grant proposal including specific financial plans for requested funds, seek out EBP research to support their proposals, and identify realistic measurable outcomes.
Track: Practice/Personal & Professional Development (I, A)
33. New Possibilities in Holistic Nurse Practice Models - Linda Bark, PhD, RN… We know this is a time to think beyond our present traditional practice models. What new ways to practice holistic nursing have been developed? How can nurses develop practice models that provide healthy culture and respect for the caregiver as well as the patient/client? Innovative nursing practice models as a way for participants to envision how they can bring new aspects of practice to their settings or how they can create new models will be presented. There will be a limited time for participants to share successful and innovative practice models that they have developed.
Track: Practice/Personal & Professional Development (I)
Saturday June 8, 2013, 9:45am - 11:15am
Workshops Block C (1.5 contact hours)
34. Research Papers # 2
A. Healing Touch Supports Healthy Older Women: Kristin Wicking, MSN, RN PhD (c)
B. Personal Healing: Experiences of Holistic Nurses: Mary Irene Enzman Hines, PhD, CNS, CPNP, AHN-BC & Diane Wind Wardell, PhD, RN, WHNP-BC, AHN-BC, CHTP/I
C. Healthcare Provider and Patient Perceptions of Spirituality in Oncology: Ruth Frankenfield, RN, MS, CNS & Kathrynn Thompson, MSN, RN, PMHSNS-BC
Track: Research/Practice (B,I,A)
WORKSHOP FULL 35. Finding Possibilities in the Waves: The Healing Energy of Conflict - Deborah Shields, RN, PhD, CCRN, QTTT, AHN-BC, Sharon S. Parker, MS, RN, CNS…This interactive presentation is to empower participants to create strategies to transform the unease of conflict into a space where healing can begin. Through exploring the roots conflict as a whole person experience, possibilities of transformation are illuminated. A model of conflict management, integrating the Core Values of Holistic Nursing and the principles of transformational leadership, will be introduced. Ultimately, conflict can be experienced as a healing energy in support of growth, transformation, and deepening appreciation of the uniqueness of self and others. The key in the outcome of conflict management may reside in the milieu in which it is experienced. The healthcare environment is complex and, daily, nurses experience challenges to the caring values that are foundational to their holistic nursing practice.
Track: Practice/Education/Research/Personal & Professional Development (I, A)
36. Creative Power of Metaphorical Expression - Leighsa Sharoff, EdD, RN, NPP, AHN-BC…Gathering metaphors of holistic nurses provides for an exploration of how that metaphor is captured in real-life experiences. Metaphors are a way of describing an experience or a perceived notion as a personal expression of thought. The metaphoric understanding of what practicing as a holistic nurse means is discussed with reference to the personal, emotional and spiritual component of being a holistic nurse. Data from 75 holistic nurses was collected using participants own expression of the metaphor of holistic nursing and a correlating critical incident technique (CIT) report of how that metaphor was expressed in practice. Metaphors were not analyzed but correlated by themes. The CIT reports were analyzed to uncover and isolate key aspects of commonalities. The results capture the abundance and diversity of metaphorical expressions embedded in participants’ metaphors produced insight and a deeper appreciation of the connectedness in nursing.
Track: Education/Research/Personal & Professional Development (I)
37. Cancelled
38. The Energetics in Disaster and Trauma Relief: What are they and how to help yourself and others - Dr Mary Jo Jo Bulbrook, EdD, RN, CEMP/S/I, CHTP, HTCP…From clinical practice, personal experience and research, the energetics of disaster and trauma relief have become clearer on what nurses and health care professionals are up against in providing sensitive, caring and holistic care. Through discussion, story telling, and energetic assessments the imprinting of trauma and disasters will become visible with an opportunity to heal through the appropriate energetic system imprinted. Topics of trauma relief and symptom elimination will be illustrated with examples of various treatment interventions from Healing Touch, Energy Medicine, Energy Psychology, Touch for Health and song and movement therapy will be illustrated with examples for application in various nursing situations. Explore in-depth awareness and gain more tools in your tool box to identify, treat and heal energetically.
Track: Practice/Education/Research/Personal & Professional Development (I, A)
WORKSHOP FULL 39. Holistic Approaches to Managing Pain within Primary Care Settings - Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, M.D., PhD, Jan Lucier, MSN, RN, HNB-BC, CCAP, Ms Barbara Mainguy, MA, MFA… The focus will be on the role of holistic nurses in primary care pain management and how that role can expand and develop. Data demonstrating statistically significant reductions in opiate utilization, level of pain severity, quality of life, and quality of social relationships as a result of interaction with a holistic pain management program will be discussed. In this program, chronic pain is perceived from the perspective of the medicine wheel, in which imbalances in relationships to community, spirit, emotion/relationship, body, safety, nurturing, and self-awareness result in worsening pain. Pain is understand as a central, perceptual phenomenon in which the brain remodels itself to “do pain” better and more thoroughly over the course of time.
Track: Practice/Education/Research/Praxis (B, I)
40. Providing Education to Patients and Student Nurses from an Integrated Education Model - Sheila Paul, PhD…Students should be viewed from a holistic perspective and Model Role-Modeling Theory, as their lives and their learning are intertwined. To promote holistic theory based and person-centered nursing care, student nurses must experience holistic learning strategies. Exploration of the Holistic Education Theory and its implications for nursing education including synthesis of Holistic Nursing Theory with Model Role Modeling Nursing Theory and Holistic Education Theory to enhance nursing education and actively use learning strategies that reflect this education model.
Track: Practice/Education (B, I)
41. Holistic Interdisciplinary Care in an inpatient setting, shifting the culture of Patient Experience at the Cleveland Clinic - Barbie Picciano, RN, ASN…This workshop provides a unique approach to infusing holistic care into the culture by not only nursing, and partnerships with other disciplines. Sharing our institutions journey, strategies and data will offer others the opportunity to take the next step in moving toward their own goals of educating, implementing and creating new roles in their healthcare setting towards a holistic approach to patient care. Training programs, volunteer opportunities and other initiatives will enlighten the participant to ways of incorporating holism in the whole culture and how it can be effectively driven by holistic nurses.
Track: Practice/Education/Research/Personal & Professional Development (B, I)
One-to-One Research Consultation Seesions (CNE Provided-
Offered at individual Scheduled times)
Research One-to-One - Discuss your research dates, topics, or concerns with experienced researchers, published authors & grant-writers. Research Facilitator will contact partipcants before conference to confirm time and location.
Track: Research/Personal & Professional Development (B, I, A)
Additional Fee from Conference: $50 (paid during registration)
Conference Schedule
Tuesday: June 4, 2013
Pre-Conference Workshops
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Board of Directors Meeting
8:30 AM – 5:00 PM Full Day — Workshop E01-E02
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Half Day Morning — Workshop E03-E05
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch for Pre-Conference Attendees
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM Half Day Afternoon — Workshop E06-E07
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM Optional Activitiy - A1 Norfolk Tour
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Pre-Conference Workshops
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Board of Directors Meeting
8:30 AM – 5:00 PM Full Day — Workshop #1-5
8:00 AM – 11:30 PM Half Day Morning — Workshop #6-9
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch for Pre-Conference Attendees
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM Half Day Afternoon — Workshop #10-13
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Facilitator Orientation
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM New Conference Attendee Orientation
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Welcome & Announcements, Opening Ceremony
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Opening Reception in Exhibit Hall
Opening of Bookstore & Marketplace
Thursday, June 6, 2013
General Workshops
7:00 AM – 9:00 AM Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Early Morning Activities
9:15 AM – 11:15 AM President’s Welcome & Introduction
Keynote Address, Announcements & Awards
11:15 AM – 2:30 PM Exhibit Hall Open, Lunch On Own
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM Poster Session #1 with Authors
11:45 PM – 12:45 PM Committee Meetings
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM Member Meeting
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Workshops Block A
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Refreshment Break/Visit Exhibit Hall
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Sharing Circles #1
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM Reception in the Exhibit Hall
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Journey to Normal Presentation
9:00 PM – 10:30 PM Drumming
Friday: June 7, 2013
7:00 AM – 9:00 AM Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Early Morning Activities
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Workshops Block B
12:30 PM – 3:30 PM Exhibit Hall Open, Lunch on Your Own
12:30 PM – 3:30 PM Nurture the Nurse Time
Optional Activities - Norfolk Walking Tour
Norfolk Riding Tour
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Committee Meetings
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Sharing Circles #2
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Poster Session #2 with Authors
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM Last Chance to Visit Exhibits
6:15 PM – 7:00 PM Hospitality Hour (Cash Bar)
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM Banquet, Silent Auction & Dancing
Saturday: June 8, 2013
7:00 AM – 8:15 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM Closing Keynote Presentation
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Workshops Block C
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Sharing Circles #3
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM Closing Ceremony
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Optional Activity - Edgar Cayce
Conference schedule and # of CNE credits subject to change. Activities in bold are CNE provided.