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Workshops & Schedule
 Pre-Conference:
Thursday June 3, 2010
Note: workshops are identified as B=Beginner; I=Intermediate, A=Advanced to assist you in selecting a workshop for your experience level.
Please Choose:
EITHER 1 full-day session
OR 1 morning session and 1 afternoon session
OR 1 morning session or 1 afternoon session
Pre-Conference, Full Day
8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
CNE provided
1. Exploring the Art and Science of Holistic Nursing: The Path to Certification. Practice (B, I) Deb Shields PhD, RN, CCRN, QTTT, AHN-BC; Margaret Erickson RN, PhD, CNS, AHN-BC; Rebecca Schultz MSN, FNP-BC, HN-BC, CCAP, Reiki Practitioner. Are you interested in certification as a holistic nurse? If you are, please join us at this comprehensive, inclusive, and fun workshop, where we explore the art and science of holistic nursing and help you develop strategies for working towards your certification in Holistic Nursing!
2. Healthy People—Healthy Planet: In Nightingale's Footsteps - Global Advocacy Skills for Environmental, Holistic Health Challenges, 2010-2020. Advocacy (I) Wayne Kines DTM; Eleanor Kibrick MSc; Deva-Marie Beck PhD, RN; Barbara Dossey PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN. We will develop grassroots-to-global communications skills and strategies, advocating for environmental, holistic health issues while fully celebrating the 2010 Florence Nightingale Centennial/ International Year of the Nurse.
3. The Use of Herbs in Nursing Practice. Practice/Education (B) Terry Apt ND, ARNP-BC. Explore fundamental information about safely and effectively using more than 20 efficacious, historically used herbs as an integral part of nursing practice. Body systems, culinary herbs as medicine, various uses of herbal tea blends will be examined.
4. Research to Praxis: Using the Evidence to Implement Holistic Interventions for Practice and Education. Research (B) Sue Robertson RN, PhD; Ruth McCaffrey ND, ARNP, BC, FND, GNP. This presentation will help you evaluate research evidence about potential holistic interventions, develop guidelines to support holistic care, and measure the effectiveness of holistic interventions.
Pre-Conference, Half Day Morning
8:00 a.m.- 11:45 p.m.
CNE provided
5. Greening Ourselves: Environmental Healing with Eco Nutrition. Practice (B, I, A) Susan Luck RN, HNC, CCN. Environmental toxic exposures challenge our health and well being. This workshop will offer research, strategies, and solutions for healing our internal and external environments.
6. Unitary Healing: Opening Doors to Practice Grounded in Wholeness. Practice (I, A) W. Richard Cowling III RN, BS, MS, PhD, APRN-BC, AHN-BC. Participate in a dialogue to shed light and possibilities on the use of unitary healing as an approach to providing wholeness-centered caring.
7. What is Praxis: A Holistic Perspective. Practice (A) Mercy Popoola RN, CNS, PhD, FWACN. Praxis means theory in action. The pedagogy of the holistic view of praxis will be examined from many theoretical perspectives, many ways or patterns of knowing, as a critical reflection, and from a case study perspective.
8. Creating Optimal Healing Environments that Support Holistic Nursing Practice. Practice (B, I) Ellen Schultz PhD, RN, CHTP; Sarah Swanson BSc; Terri Zborowsky PhD. Thoughtfully designed environments support healing by facilitating holistic, reflective nursing practice. This presentation explores ways that design elements can enhance healing and create sacred space.
Pre-Conference, Half Day Afternoon
12:45 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
CNE provided
9. Bloom Where You are Planted: Healing Environments Across Diverse Practice Settings. Practice (B) Veda Andrus EdD, MSN, RN, HN-BC; Marie Shanahan MA, BSN, RN, HN-BC. Developing a plan to create a healing environment requires knowledge and practical skills creatively synchronized with right timing. Holistic nurses are in an excellent position to foster these practice settings. The essential elements of healing environments will be discussed with examples of actualized healing environments across various practice settings: hospitals. behavioral health, pediatric community health, free-standing clinics and clinical education.
10. Using Spiritual Assessment Models to Find Hope and Healing. Practice (I) Anne Gifford RN, MBA, MM, MALM, MACE, DEd.Min. Introducing four spiritual assessment models used in integrating a holistic healing framework for helping the patient find peace, hope and sacredness in their life.
11. ONE with NATURE: Taoist Practice for Experiencing Unity and Creating a Habitat for Healing. Practice & Self Care (I) Yinong Chong PhD; Shawn Cartwright MBA. Reunite with nature through traditional Chinese healing practices based on Qigong and Feng Shui principles. Apply powerful, simple methods to heal yourself and others.
12. The Bodies of “Others”. Practice (B, I, A) Sara K. Schneider PhD. Through movement, roleplay, and reflection, participants practice qualities of presence, nonverbal communication, and cultural inquiry techniques to connect with the diverse patients they now serve.
THE Workshops
Note: workshops are identified as B=Beginner; I=Intermediate, A=Advanced to assist you in selecting a workshop for your experience level.
Friday June 4, 2010
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
CNE provided
13. Research Papers # 1 Research (I, A)
- Eco-Spirituality: The Experience of Environmental Meditation in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease. Colleen Delaney PhD, RN, AHN-BC; Cynthia Barrere PhD, RN, AHN-BC. The aim of this phenomenological study was to describe the experience of a new environmental meditation that focused on eco-spirituality with patients with cardiovascular disease.
- Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback: Creating a Healing Internal Environment for Women With Fibromyalgia. Janice Surina Cise DNS, RN, AHNC, BCIA-C. Heart Rate Variability (HRV) biofeedback brings about balance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems. Women with fibromyalgia experienced decreased symptoms over the eight week training
- Impact of Reiki on Knee Replacement Patients: Rating of Pain Before and After Reiki Therapy. Carol Fazzini RN, BC; Ruth Mooney PhD, RN, Barbara Notte RN. Reiki therapy was administered to patients undergoing total knee replacement preoperatively and postoperatively. Mean ratings of pain decreased after 20 minute treatments.
14. Re-Visioning Environment: Creating a Habitat for Dying. Practice (B, I, A) Lynn Keegen PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN; Carole Ann Drick DNS, RN. As a society, let us advance death and dying into an environment of peaceful, profound experience for the majority of people honoring and respecting human dignity.
15. Remerging Whole! Nurses Can Use Human Caring Theory to Return to Intentional Healing Practice. Practice (I) Gwendolyn Kinney MSN, RN, RN-C; Anna Herbst MSN, RN, RN-C; Diane Swengros MSN, RN, RN-C. Hear the story of a large healthcare system’s journey toward holistic nursing and learn innovative ideas to promote holistic transformation in any nurse or hospital.
16. High Fidelity Simulators and Holistic Nursing Communication: 21st Century Technology meets Holistic Nursing Concepts. Education (B, I, A) Leighsa Sharoff EdD, RN, NPP, AHN-BC. Exploration of High Fidelity Simulations and holistic nursing concepts (communication) to foster a caring/healing environment.
17. Reintegrating Touch into Patient and Family Care. Practice (B) William Collinge MSW, MPH, PhD; Mary Malinski BA, RN, LMT, HN-BC. Find greater satisfaction in nursing practice through reintegration of touch into patient care. Empower family caregivers with simple skills to enhance caregiving at home.
18. Healing the Body Electric: Cranial Electrical Stimulation as a Therapeutic Modality. Practice & Self Care (I) MaryAnne C. Murray MSN EdD, APRN-BC, FNP. Experience your body electric through Cranial Electrical Stimulation (CES). Learn CES evolution and simple treatments for pain, headaches, anxiety, depression, and enhanced fracture healing.
19. New Ways of Using Archetypes in Our Healing Journey. Self Discovery & Practice (B, I, A) Cynthia Backer RN, BSN, MAT, HNB-BC. Explore the origin of archetypes and identify your personal archetype through various forms of visual media. Strategies will be shared for applying these archetypes in the home, workplace and community.
20. A Mind Body Intervention for Depression in a Community Health Setting. Research & Practice (B) Kathleen M. Miller RN, MA, PhD. Examine the process, findings, and experiential elements of a pilot study on a Mind Body Intervention for Depression in a community health setting.
21. Hope and Healing in an Oncology Unit. Practice (I) Patricia (PJ) Meyer RN, MS, AOCN, LMT, CCAP. People diagnosed with cancer experience helplessness and hopelessness. This program illustrates ways to create healing environments as well as the activities to foster hope in such patients and their families.
Saturday June 5, 2010
Please Choose:
EITHER 1 Saturday 1:30-5:00 p.m. workshop
OR 1 Saturday 1:30-3:00 p.m. workshop and 1 Saturday 3:30-5:00 p.m. workshop
Saturday 1:30-5:00 p.m. Workshops
CNE provided
22. Health Promotion and Self-Care through Contemplative Practice. Practice & Self Care (B) Jane McCool PhD, RN, AHN-BC; Anne Twohig. This experiential workshop offers the opportunity to incorporate such mindfulness practices as, meditation, body scanning, and movement into nurses personal and professional lives.
23. The Greening of Comfort Care. Practice (I) Esther Johnson RN, BSN, PHN, CHPN; Deborah O’Brien RN, BSN, PHN. Discover ways to implement non-pharmacologic interventions to transform chaotic situations into optimal healing environments that are peaceful and comforting for critically ill individuals.
24. Curriculum as Environment: Realizing a Vision for Graduate Holistic Nurse Education. Education (A) Marguerite Purnell PhD, RN, AHN-BC; Bernadette Lange DNS, RN, AHN-BC. Explore the development of curricula as an environment for graduate holistic nurse education though participation in a focus group research method.
25. The Heart of Sacred Healing Space. Practice & Self Care (B, I) Helen “Jody” Hueschen RN, MN, NEA-BC, CNOR, CHTP/I; Myra Tovey, RN, BS, CHTP/I, HN-BC. This experiential presentation will focus on the heart center, used to create sacred space for self healing and working with individuals, or groups, in various settings.
26. Make No Bones About It: Environmental Factors Do Impact Osteoporosis Risk. Practice (A) Pam Shuler DNSc, FNP-BC. What do hypochlorhydria, insomnia, smoking and diarrhea all have in common? These are factors that dramatically influence risk of osteoporosis. Learn to identify and reduce these internal/external risks.
27. Finding the “Collective Genius” Among Holistic Nurses: Focused Dialogue. Practice (I) Rumi Hashimoto MSN, RN, HTCP/I; Katrina Shibata, MPH, CHES. Participants will identify personal “innovations” and actively dialogue to find practical/sustainable solutions to challenges in support of their holistic nursing practice.
Saturday 1:30-3:00 P.M. Workshops
CNE provided
28. Research Papers # 2: Research. (I)
- Hand Massage for Insomnia in Nursing Home Residents. Marlaine Smith RN, PhD, AHN-BC, FAAN; Anne Vitale PhD APN; Jacqueline Staal FNP-BC. Insomnia contributes to a cascade of health issues in nursing home residents. Holistically-focused interventions to address insomnia in this population are urgently needed and discussed.
- Self-healing Practices: Connecting Internal and External Environments. Evelyn Clingerman PhD, RN. This presentation offers knowledge of self-healing practices through the lens of an underserved and marginalized group of Latino and Latina migrant farmworkers.
- Expert Holistic Nurses' Advice to Nursing Students. Glenda Christiaens PhD, RN, AHN-BC; Jo Ann Abegglen DNP, APRN, PNP; Andrea Gardner BS, RN. This study describes the advice given by expert holistic nurses to nursing students, and nursing students’ experience and perceptions of their interaction with the experts.
29. Bark.Wag.Love. Starting, Funding, and Sustaining a Pet Therapy Program in Integrative Healthcare. Practice (B) Pamala Hardin BS, Registered Delta Society Pet Partner. Describes a successful model for pet therapy, including policies, procedures, resource requirements, costs and funding sources, and a holistic nurse’s perspective on pet therapy.
30. Re-Visioning Nursing: Creating Holistic Nurses through an Online Accelerated Baccalaureate Nursing Program. Education (B, I, A) Sally Roach MSN, RN, CNE, HNC-BC; Edna Garza-Escobedo PhD, RN; Anne Rentfro MSN, RN; Penny Bennett PhD, MSN, RN, NNP-BC. Explore the process of incorporating holistic nursing concepts and core values into an online, accelerated RN to BSN two-semester program. The University of Texas at Brownsville BSN program, the first recipient of the AHNA’s Annual Excellence in Holistic Nursing Education Award, provides the framework for this presentation.
Saturday 3:30-5:00 p.m Workshops
CNE provided
31. Stepping Stones: Achieving an Integrative Healthcare Framework. Education, Practice & Research (I) Lourdes Lorenz RN, MSN-IH, AHN-BC, Denise Anthes RN, BSN, MBA, HTCP/I, HN-BC, Sandra Barkei RN, BSN, HTCP, HN-BC, Kat Knihnicki Yarboro RN, BSN, PhD, ThD, HN-BC. Designed by nurses, this innovative framework was created to promote a healing culture that inspires personal and organizational transformation within a hospital setting. Application of practical ideas for creating and implementing an Integrative Healthcare program will be explored using Holistic nursing education, practice and research.
32. Spring Forest Qigong: Hope for Chronic Pain. Self Care & Practice (B) Jane Coleman RN, AHN-BC, PhD. Nurses will discover the benefits of Spring Forest Qigong, a meditative movement technique, through discussion, demonstration and practice.
33. Full Service Mental Health: The Development of an Integrated Psychiatric Practice Environment for Mental Health and Wellness: Focused Dialogue. Practice (I) Tanya R. Sorrell NP-C, MSN, RN, MS. Review the development of a multi-discipline mental health private practice that incorporates holistic concepts, modalities and traditional methods. Facilitation and barriers will be discussed that encourage the success of these programs.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
9:00-10:00 a.m Workshops
CNE provided
34. Healing in the Dying Time: Healing Separation and Restoring Union. Practice (I) Joan Furman MSN, RN, AHN-BC, CET II. Identify ways that Holistic nurses can assist dying clients in making personal choices about their healing, spirituality, life purpose and unfinished business while finding meaning in death and continuing to foster hope.
35. Walk With Me….Hold My Hand. Aesthetics (A) David Shields, MSN, RN; Deborah Shields PhD, RN, CCRN, QTTT, AHN-BC. Sharing through narrative reflection and a photoessay, this presentation explores caring-healing environments that are created each day between those walking toward end-of life, their loved ones, and the members of the holistic end-of-life team.
36. Reiki Research Dissemination: The Touchstone Project. Research (I) Anne Vitale PhD APN; Elise Brownell PhD. Identifies emerging findings, from the Center for Reiki Research, useful for holistic nurses and Reiki practitioners. Patient outcomes, animal studies and Reiki as self-care will also be presented.
37. From Wasteful to Wakeful: The Institutionalization of Going Green. Practice (B) Victoria Boyce RN MSN AHN-BC; Gayle Novack MA, BSN, RN, HN-BC. This session will examine the role of the holistic nurse as a steward of the earth using Florence Nightingale’s nursing theoretical framework. Awareness of the scope of issue will be raised through discussion of the impact of the health care system on the environment. A case example of approaches to environmental sustainability will be presented using an 804-bed hospital in an urban setting. The Hospital committee is lead and sponsored by holistic nurses in collaboration with other departments. Successful hospital, unit-based and individual initiatives will be shared, along with lessons learned on our journey toward going green. The presentation will conclude with discussion and sharing creative solutions to environmental challenges in health care.
38. Improving the Quality of Spiritual Care as a Dimension of Palliative Care: Report from Consensus Conference. Practice (I) M. Kay Sandor Ph.D., RN, LPC, AHN-BC. This workshop will review the report from Consensus Conference on Improving the Quality of Spiritual Care as a Dimension of Palliative Care and discuss recommendations for implementation.
39. Creating Healing Environment and Implementation of Holistic Nursing Practice within Suburban Hospital Setting. Practice (I) Susan Kristiniak MSN, RN, BC, IAC; Bette Degnan Kryak MSN, RN-BC. Describes one acute care hospital’s journey toward holistic nursing culture through the integration of complementary therapies into nursing practice which presented the caregivers with options for providing holistic care to their patients and families.
40. Habitat for Healing: Understanding the 4 Generations of Nurses. Practice (I) LeAnn Thieman LPN, CSP, CPAE. Learn traits and values of the four generations of nurses. Identify ways to relate, cope with, and appreciate differences to develop a positive, healing environment.
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