E01. You are Fire! An Integrative Nurse Coach Journey to Reignite your Personal and Professional Passion Karen Avino, EdD, RN, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC; Pamela Melson, RN, MSN, NC-BC & Karly Mertz, RN-BC, BSN, NC-BC
Experience an interactive workshop to reconnect with the core of nursing's passion for health & wellbeing practice. Using the Integrative Health & Wellness Assessment, participate in peer-to-peer coaching practice and witness vulnerability within a group coaching session.
Track: Practice, Praxis, Nurse Coaching (B, I)

E02. Certification in Guided Imagery
Debra Rose Wilson, PhD, MSN, RN, IBCLC, AHN-BC, CHT
This education, practice, and certification will allow attendees to introduce evidenced-based guided imagery into nursing practice and self-care. This will fulfill 6 hours towards the 100 hours required to certify in Clinical Hypnotherapy.
Track: Practice, Personal and Professional Development, Education (B, I, A)

E03. Healing Touch: Energy Therapy as an Adjunct in Symptoms Management
Michelle McGrorey, BSN, RN, HNB-BC, OCN, HTCP, CCAP, HMIP; Deborah McKinney, BSN, RN, HMIP & JoAnne Veith, RN, HTCP/I
This interactive and experiential workshop is presented by RNs who use Healing Touch with patients and staff in hospitals, and for their personal self-care. Learn how energy therapy provided bedside to patients helps effectively manage adverse symptoms such as pain, anxiety, stress, tension, and nausea to improve healing and satisfaction with care received. Four Healing Touch techniques will be demonstrated and workshop attendees will be guided in exchanges with each other and ways to use Healing Touch for self-care.
Track: Practice, Personal and Professional Development, Education (B, I, A)

E04. Aromatherapy for Self Care & Healthcare
Denise Joswiak BSN, RN, HNB-BC, Certified Clinical Aromatherapist
Create four unique aromatherapy products to support your health and well-being. Discuss essential oil science, safety, methods of application, blending, and holistic care plans. Review evidence-informed aromatherapy practices for implementation with patients and clients.
Track: Research, Practice, Personal & Professional Development (B, I, A)

E05. Healing with Water - Aroma-Balneotherapeutics: Aromatic Medicinal Bath Therapies
Valerie Cooksley, RN, OCN, AN, FAAIM, CERT
An integrative method utilizing mineral salts, essential oils, herbs, seaweed (and more) for various indications, guidelines to follow, and therapeutic formulas to try. Nurses will gain a deeper understanding and new appreciation of aroma-balneotherapeutics to enliven their professional practice with rewarding outcomes, as well as elevate their own holistic self-care.
Track: Practice, Education, Research, Personal & Professional Development, Aesthetics, Nurse Coaching (B, I)

E06. Healing Touch for Nurses: Critical Skills for Reconnecting with Purpose
Diane Swengros MSN, RN, NPD-BC, CHTP/I
Healing Touch is a relaxing, nurturing, heart-centered energy therapy that uses gentle, intentional touch that assists in creating a coherent and balanced energy field, supporting one’s inherent ability to self-heal body, mind, emotion, and spirit. Combining the best of ancient wisdom practices, evidence-based knowledge and scientific process, this therapy is easily adapted into Western tertiary health care systems. We will explore principles of energy, presence, self-care, and applications within our clinical practice. We will practice centering meditation, energetic awareness, and interventions for self, loved ones, and patients.
Track: Personal & Professional Development, Practice (B, I)

01. Get More Clients with Less Effort: Holistic Marketing for Nurses
Sharon Burch, MSN, RN, APRN, PHCNS-BC, APHN-BC, HWNC-BC
Nurse coaches, consultants, educators, and other entrepreneurial participants will 1) receive holistic, evidence-based tools designed to optimize their marketing and sales effectiveness; 2) practice applying these tools to their business, and 3) leave with a refreshed mindset and more refined skills to help them get more clients with less effort.
Track: Personal & Professional, Development, Advanced Practice, Nurse Coaching (B, I, A)

02. Hypnosis for Nursing
Timothy Trujillo, CHt
This program is designed to give nurses understanding and skill to implement hypnosis in care settings. These fundamental methods, which include breathwork, relaxation, visualization, and suggestion, help practitioners foster greater comfort and positive expectancy for the patient. Hypnosis in nursing has also been demonstrated to support better treatment outcomes.
Track: Practice, Praxis, Nurse Coaching (I)

03. Mentoring: Sharing Creative Ways to Support Holistic Scholarship
Mary Enzman Hines, PhD, APRN, CNS, CPNP-PC, APHN-BC, SGAHN; Mary Anne Hanley, PhD, RN, SGAHN; Sharon Stout-Shaffer, PhD, RN, SGAHN and Marjorie Anderson, MS, RN, PMH-CNS BC (retired), QTTT, SGAHN
This program is intended for anyone who is interested in entering into any mentoring relationship. Both experienced and unexperienced nurses who are interested in mentoring will benefit from attending. The program is intended to engage participants in reflective dialogue to expand their personal understanding of authentic mentorship from a holistic perspective. Ideas discussed in the program are designed to allow participants to expand their vision of being in both a role as a mentor and a mentee.
Track: Practice, Education, Research, Praxis, Personal & Professional Development, Advanced Practice, Nurse Coaching (I)

04. Cannabis Care: The Holistic Nurse Coach’s Role
Carey Clark, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, RYT, FAAN
This presentation is for nurses interested in gaining an understanding of the holistic coaching role when caring for medical cannabis patients. It provides an overview of cannabinoid therapeutics, endocannabinoid system anatomy/physiology, the current body of cannabis science evidence, social justice-advocacy issues, holistic coaching approaches, and the description of APRN roles in this field.
Track: Practice, Education, Praxis, Personal & Professional Development, Nurse Coaching (B, I)

05. Creation of a Personalized Dreamtime Life-scape
Kathleen Cino, PhD, RN & John Cino, MFA
The purpose of the workshop to produce a visual narrative of the participant’s personal biography through the abstract imagery and symbolism of Australian Indigenous art. This allows the non-visual artist participant to create a dreamtime life-scape using simple abstract imagery and color with markers and paper as the medium.
Track: Personal & Professional Development, Aesthetics (B, I)

06. Exploring My Holistic Journey Through Poetry/BibliotherapyShari Liesch, MSN, CPNP-PC
Writing is health supportive. Join as we explore our holistic journey through the power of words. Writing activities will include Pennebaker process, the RES (Receptive, Expressive and Symbolic) model of poetry therapy. Participants will engage in individual and group writing. Skills learned can be replicated for personal and professional use.
Track: Practice, Education, Praxis, Personal & Professional Development, Aesthetics, Advanced Practice, Nurse Coaching (I)

07. Successful Goal Setting: Achieving SMART(er) Goals Using HypnosisChristy Cowgill, RN, CRNA, MBA, NC-BC, CH, CHBE & Carol Thamert, FNP-C, NC-BC
Want to inspire real change for people who have all the reasons for why it just won’t work? Easily learn, as you experience for yourself, how to identify what really matters, discover unconscious limiting beliefs, and construct goals that drive themselves towards compelling success using practical hypnosis and NLP techniques.
Track: Practice, Education, Personal & Professional Development, Advanced Practice, Nurse Coaching (I)

08. De Nuestras R.A.I.C.E.S: Traditional Medicine for Holistic Wellness
Caroline E. Ortiz, MSN, MPH, RN, NC-BC & Thomas A. Chavez, Ph.D., LMHC (NM)
This workshop introduces curanderismo, the traditional medicine of Mexico and the American Southwest, and the R.A.I.C.E.S. healing framework to nurses working with culturally diverse communities in a variety of work settings. Attendees will be invited to participate in traditional healing rituals, ceremonies, and pláticas that support individual and group well-being.
Track: Practice, Education, Research, Praxis, Personal & Professional Development, Aesthetics, Advanced Practice, Nurse Coaching (B, I)

09. A Journey of Self-Care and Self-Reflection Through Expressive Arts
Margaret Erickson, PhD, RN, CNS, APRN, APHN-BC, SGAHN
Through a didactic presentation, group dialogue and exploration; and expressive art experiential-based activities; participants learn how to use a creative holistic process to nurture, empower, embrace, and facilitate self-care, self-awareness, and self-reflection at the personal and professional level. Holistic nurses at any level can enjoy and benefit from this experience/presentation.
Track: Practice, Education, Research, Praxis, Personal & Professional Development, Aesthetics (B, I)

10. Introduction to the Omaha System for Nurse Coaching
Mary Elaine Southard, DNP, RN, APHN-BC, HWNC-BC, SGAHN and Karen Martin, RN, MSN, FHIMSS, FAAN
This workshop will address using the Omaha System as a tool for documentation, education, research, and practice management. The purpose of this presentation is to engage Nurse Coaches to use standardized terminology to capture outcome data. The Omaha System has been documented to be a feasible model to use as an organized assessment for initial and follow-up coaching sessions. Nurse Coach educators, researchers and practitioners will be introduced to the HOW, WHY, and HOW TO implement the Omaha System for consistency and evidence-based practice.
Track: Practice, Education, Research, Personal & Professional Development, Nurse Coaching (I, A)

21. Research Papers 1
A. The Effect of Frankincense Oil in Cancer-related Fatigue from Chemotherapy
Debra Reis, MSN, RN, CCA
B. Spiritual Well-Being & Pain Among Adults with Cancer: Mixed Methods Study
Megan Miller, PhD, RN

22. Auricular Acupuncture for Nurses: The NADA Five-Point Protocol
Elicia Baker-Rogers, DNP, RN, COHN-S, CCM, AHN-BC, ADS, LMT, BCTMB & Katurah Bryant, LMFT, RN, LADC, NADA-RT
This workshop is to introduce the NADA protocol to holistic nurses as a preventive, non-pharmaceutical intervention for compassion fatigue and burnout, and as a therapeutic intervention for clients with behavioral health challenges. It is an excellent engagement and retention tool, which can be integrated in all aspects of healthcare services.
Track: Practice, Education, Research, Personal & Professional Development (B)

23. The Power of HOPE
Susan Fowler, PhD, RN, CRRN, NE-BC, FCNS
The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the concept of hope, review the literature and research focusing on hope applicable to nursing practice, and apply hope to oneself and others.
Track: Practice, Research (I)

24. Think Differently: How to Build Trusting Relationships and Environments for Real and Lasting Change
Angie Gray
Environments of trust support healing for patients, nurses, and families. During this session, we will learn communication skills to build trust. We will gain awareness of personal styles and how they can clash or thrive. We will examine simple steps that support the mission to embody well-being and advocate for holistic care.
Track: Personal & Professional Development, Nurse Coaching (B, I, A)

25. Taking Your Holistic Nursing into the Integrative Practice World
Linda Thomas, PhD, APRN, FNP-C, NPD-BC, CCRN, CHTP/I, HTAP
This presentation aims to help clarify for nurses the similarities and differences between holistic and integrative nursing and its place within the healthcare system.
Track: Practice, Personal & Professional Development, Advanced Practice (I)

26. Transformational Skills for Flourishing and Sustainable Development
Joyce Morrissette, BSN, RN
Nurses will learn about a leading-edge global initiative called the Inner Development Goals (IDGs). The IDG framework consists of dimensions such as Being, Thinking, Relating, Collaborating, and Acting. These science-based qualities and skills can be learned and are designed to accelerate progress toward Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Track: Education, Personal & Professional Development, Nurse Coaching (B)

27. Holistic Values, Education & Healing Practices Nurture Unitary Human Beings
Joyce B. Perkins, PhD, MS, MA, RN AHN-BC, CHTP, RMP-T, ACE-GFI, SGAHN & Cynthia Dols Fin, DNP, MN, PHN, AHN-BC
The purpose of this presentation is to define how education, theory, research, ethics and practice provide the template upon which personal habits and actions may then build fruitful patterns of relating within and without such that growth, healing and renewal is potentiated for people and our planet.
Track: Practice, Education, Praxis, Personal & Professional Development, Aesthetics (B, I, A)

32. Get More Clients with Less Effort: Holistic Marketing for Nurses
Sharon Burch, MSN, RN, APRN, PHCNS-BC, APHN-BC, HWNC-BC
Nurse entrepreneurs (coaches, consultants, educators, and others - at all levels of experience) will 1) receive holistic, evidence-based tools to optimize their marketing effectiveness; 2) practice applying these tools to their business, and 3) leave with a refreshed mindset and toolset to help them get more clients with less effort.
Track: Personal & Professional Development, Advanced Practice, Nurse Coaching (I)

33. The Connections between the Gut Microbiome and Mental Health
Debra Rose Wilson, PhD, MSN, RN, IBCLC, AHN-BC, CHT & Leslie Binford, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC
When the microbiome is challenged a “dysbiotic” state leads to increased intestinal permeability (leaky gut). Research presented about connections of the microbiome and inflammation to depression, autism, anxiety, and schizophrenia. We will consider holistic ways of improving the microbiome will prevent, treat, or reduce symptoms of mental illness.
Track: Practice, Education, Research, Praxis, Personal & Professional Development, Advanced Practice, Nurse Coaching (I, A)

34. Self-Massage: An Introduction to a New Approach for Chronic Pain
Dorothea Atkins, ThD, BSN, MA, LMT
Millions suffer with chronic joint pain; innovative solutions are needed. You will learn an innovative, hands-on proven holistic self-care technique of pain relief that is self-empowering and immediately effective. Self-massage is a safe self-healing solution that relaxes tight joint muscles relieving chronic pain and stress with immediate results.
Track: Practice, Education, Research, Personal & Professional Development (B, I)

35. Promoting Nurse Health & Well-being: A Toolkit to Address Worldwide Nurse Burnout
Sharon Tucker, PhD, APRN-CNS, NC-BC, EBP-C, FNAP, FAAN & Wendy DeGraffenried, BSN, RN, NCSN, HN-BC
This presentation shares an evidence-based toolkit for nurse well-being and burnout prevention that was developed by members of the ANHA Practice Committee. The toolkit is aligned with the National Academy of Medicine’s initaitive on clinician well-being and burnout mitigation and the American Nurses’ Association’s Health Nurses - Healthy Nation initiative.
Track: Practice, Personal & Professional Development, Advanced Practice, Nurse Coaching (B, I, A)

36. Moving Life’s Trauma Out of the Body
Andrea Skillman, HN-BC, BSN, HBLU level 6
Everyone carries trauma to some degree, no one escapes this fact of life. Trauma imprints in the physical body and must be cleared using an intervention that works at the physical level; in this Healing from the Body Level Up (HBLU) method, tapping on the body. Trauma also imprints on the unconscious mind to help process but needs help to unlock being stored here to clear the angst, or it continues to repeat itself. The HBLU approach for clearing trauma combines the knowledge that trauma has an unlockable structure along with the use of tapping techniques to be effective.
Track: Practice, Education, Research, Personal & Professional Development, Advanced Practice, Nurse Coaching (I, A)

37. Exploring and Understanding Holistic Healthscapes for the Strong Black Woman Superwoman
LaTonia Clark Chalmers, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, NC-BC, DNP-TCN(c)
The goal of this activity is to describe and demonstrate how core elements of Watson’s Human Caring Theory were applied to Woods-Giscombe’s Superwoman Schema to offer culturally informed, culturally relevant, and culturally sensitive holistic health and well-being practices to Black women to support whole health healing, balance, and improved self-care.
Track: Practice, Praxis, Personal & Professional Development, Advanced Practice, Nurse Coaching (I)

41. Research Papers 3
A. A Holistic View of Self-Blame Attribution in Women with Cancer
Leigh Minchew, PhDc, DNP, CRNP, WHNP-BC, PMHNP-BC
B. Exploring Nurses Perceptions of Caring: A Mixed Methods Study
Jennifer Drake, DNP, RN, NPD-BC, ONC, Caritus Coach; Carla Parker, MSN, RN; Carol Swaimidoss-Douglass, PhD, MPH, RNC & Mary Ann Freison, PhD, RN, CPHQ

42. Courageous Well-Being for Nurses: Finding a Path to Personal and Professional Renewal
Donna Gaffney, DNSc, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN
The pandemic left nurses struggling to preserve their own safety and well-being. Many problem-solved, healed themselves and each other. Weaving together powerful nurses’ stories with evidence-based well-being practices—that reach beyond traditional approaches—this presentation will inspire attendees to begin journeys of well-being that are essential, inclusive, collective and above all, courageous.
Track: Practice, Education, Research, Personal & Professional Development (B)

43. Voices and Stories: Holistic Nursing From Another Lens
Sue Roe, DPA, MS, BSN, RN; Roxane Chan, PhD, BSN, MS, AHN-BC & Marian Long, RN, MSN, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC
Hear the “voices and stories” (collected through narrative inquiry and storytelling) of NAs and LPN/LVNs. Focus will be on their perspectives and contributions to holistic nursing care to often vulnerable individuals, groups, and communities. Discuss ways to include their “voices” in enhancing and advancing holistic nursing practice.
Track: Practice, Education, Research, Personal & Professional Development (B)

44. The Role of Nursing in Promoting Immune Health Using Functional Medicine Practices
Brigitte Sager, MSN, RN, ARNP, FNP-C, NCMP, NC-BC, AFMC
The power of functional medicine to truly heal and promote wellness is a testament to holistic nursing fundamentals. This presentation explores the foundations of immune health, common mechanisms of disruption, and interventions nurses can implement to revitalize the immune health of themselves and their patients.
Track: Practice, Education, Personal & Professional Development, Nurse Coaching (B, I)

45. Soul2Soul Communication in Complementary Integrative Health
Mary Jo Bulbrook, BSN, RN, MEd, EdD, CEMP/S/I, HTP/I, Clinical Specialist in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
The term “intuition” has been a cornerstone in nursing practice throughout the evolution of the profession. What is being presented is multi-dimensional complementary and integrated health model of care and caring. The dynamic change of holistic nursing practice, education and research documents nurses stepping in, stepping up and stepping out.
Track: Practice, Education, Research, Personal & Professional Development, Advanced Practice (I)

46. Exploring the Gifts of Gratitude, Grit & Grace on your Holistic Nurse Journey
Shari Liesch, MSN, CPNP-PC
Our holistic nurse journey can be direct or meandering. As we travel, experiences impact decisions. Join as we explore gratitude, grit and grace as they are interwoven into our experience. Using writing, discussion, and sharing, along with poetry therapy, participants will reflect, explore and renew their own nurse journey.
Track: Education, Personal & Professional Development, Aesthetics, Nurse Coaching (I)

47. Filling in the Missing Piece of Mental Health Care with Virtual Care
Sarah Weaver, FNP-C, IFMPC, HN-BC
American mental health care needs CPR STAT! Learn about mental health program that helps clients explore improving their mental health through rootcause approach. To reach the widest audience, this online program was designed to be compatible with psychiatric medications. Participants learn that connection is medicine- with themselves, community, nature, food and much more.
Track: Practice, Education, Personal & Professional Development, Advanced Practice (I)

52. Renew, Restore, and Rebalance
Holly Kapusinski, MSN, RN, NC-BC, CPNP-PC
Experiential group coaching focused on simple tools and reflections to restore, renew, and rebalance individuals and groups. Provide simple techniques that can be used daily to renew the mind, restore gratitude, joy, and rebalance the mind/body connection through group story weaving, reflective journal prompt, and creating one action goal.
Track: Practice, Personal & Professional Development, Aesthetics, Nurse Coaching (I)

53. Deep Listening as Transformation
Clare Biedenharn, DMin, BCC
“What would you do if this were your family?” is a question often asked of nurses. Trying to “fix” the problem for them limits solutions. This model of listening taught not only can improve patient outcomes, it can also help the nurse reconnect to their call to service.
Track: Practice, Education, Praxis, Personal & Professional Development, Nurse Coaching (I)

54. Hypnosis for Pain Management: Visions of Holistic Wellness
Debra Rose Wilson, PhD, MSN, RN, IBCLC, AHN-BC, CHT
Hypnosis has a long history of use for pain and anesthesia. Hypnosis involves relaxation, focus, and altering perception and behavior. Hypnosis is safe, inexpensive, and evidenced-based. Efficacy research, mechanisms of effect, and case studies will be presented. Participants will be invited to experience a trancelike state and observe a hypnosis session.
Track: Practice, Research, Praxis, Personal & Professional Development (I, A)

55. The DOT Method: Self-Massage, the Holistic Pain Solution for Osteoarthritis
Dorothea Atkins, ThD, MA, BSN, LMT
Millions suffer with joint pain; innovative solutions are needed. You will learn an innovative, hands-on proven holistic self-care method of pain relief that is self-empowering and immediately effective. Self-massage is a new, safe self-healing solution that relaxes tight joint muscles relieving chronic pain and stress with immediate results.
Track: Research, Personal & Professional Development (B, I)

56. Writing for Health: Weaving Chakra Meditation & Writing Reflecting on the Holistic Journey
Shari Liesch, MSN, CPNP-PC
Participants will explore the seven Chakra energy fields through the power of meditation, writing and connecting. This session will use meditation, sharing select poems including discussion and individual writing for each level of the Chakra. Individual and collective experiences along our holistic nurse journey will be celebrated, explored, and shared.
Track: Practice, Education, Personal & Professional Development, Aesthetics, Nurse Coaching (I)

57. Experience the Power of Yoga Nidra
Ana-Maria Gallo, PhD, CNS, RNC
Experience the power of Yoga Nidra. For a deeper insight into this practice, the art and science are discussed and conclude with a guided meditation practice, which will result in rest and restoration and connect you to your inner truth. Enhance your experience and bring a mat, pillow, and blanket.
Track: Practice, Education, Personal & Professional Development (B, I, A)

62. The Connections between the Gut Microbiome and Mental Health
Debra Rose Wilson, PhD, MSN, RN, IBCLC, AHN-BC, CHT & Leslie Binford, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC
When the microbiome is challenged a “dysbiotic” state leads to increased intestinal permeability (leaky gut). Research presented about connections of the microbiome and inflammation to depression, autism, anxiety, and schizophrenia. We will consider holistic ways of improving the microbiome will prevent, treat, or reduce symptoms of mental illness.
Track: Practice, Education, Research, Praxis, Personal & Professional Development, Advanced Practice, Nurse Coaching (I, A)

63. Get More Clients with Less Effort: Holistic Marketing for Nurses
Sharon Burch, MSN, RN, APRN, PHCNS-BC, APHN-BC, HWNC-BC
Nurse entrepreneurs (coaches, consultants, educators, and others - at all levels of experience) will 1) receive holistic, evidence-based tools to optimize their marketing effectiveness; 2) practice applying these tools to their business, and 3) leave with a refreshed mindset and toolset to help them get more clients with less effort.
Track: Personal & Professional Development, Advanced Practice, Nurse Coaching (I)

64. Self-Massage: An Introduction to a New Approach for Chronic Pain
Dorothea Atkins, ThD, BSN, MA, LMT
Millions suffer with chronic joint pain; innovative solutions are needed. You will learn an innovative, hands-on proven holistic self-care technique of pain relief that is self-empowering and immediately effective. Self-massage is a safe self-healing solution that relaxes tight joint muscles relieving chronic pain and stress with immediate results.
Track: Practice, Education, Research, Personal & Professional Development (B, I)

65. Promoting Nurse Health & Well-being: A Toolkit to Address Worldwide Nurse Burnout
Sharon Tucker, PhD, APRN-CNS, NC-BC, EBP-C, FNAP, FAAN & Wendy DeGraffenried, BSN, RN, NCSN, HN-BC
This presentation shares an evidence-based toolkit for nurse well-being and burnout prevention that was developed by members of the ANHA Practice Committee. The toolkit is aligned with the National Academy of Medicine’s initaitive on clinician well-being and burnout mitigation and the American Nurses’ Association’s Health Nurses - Healthy Nation initiative.
Track: Practice, Personal & Professional Development, Advanced Practice, Nurse Coaching (B, I, A)

66.Moving Life’s Trauma Out of the Body
Andrea Skillman, HN-BC, BSN, HBLU level 6
Everyone carries trauma to some degree, no one escapes this fact of life. Trauma imprints in the physical body and must be cleared using an intervention that works at the physical level; in this Healing from the Body Level Up (HBLU) method, tapping on the body. Trauma also imprints on the unconscious mind to help process but needs help to unlock being stored here to clear the angst, or it continues to repeat itself. The HBLU approach for clearing trauma combines the knowledge that trauma has an unlockable structure along with the use of tapping techniques to be effective.
Track: Practice, Education, Research, Personal & Professional Development, Advanced Practice, Nurse Coaching (I, A)

67. Exploring and Understanding Holistic Healthscapes for the Strong Black Woman Superwoman
LaTonia Clark Chalmers, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, NC-BC, DNP-TCN (c)
The goal of this activity is to describe and demonstrate how core elements of Watson’s Human Caring Theory were applied to Woods-Giscombe’s Superwoman Schema to offer culturally informed, culturally relevant, and culturally sensitive holistic health and well-being practices to Black women to support whole health healing, balance, and improved self-care.
Track: Practice, Praxis, Personal & Professional Development, Advanced Practice, Nurse Coaching (I)

72. Journey to a Holistic Model of Care at a Magnet Organization
Cidalia Vital, PhD, RN, CNL, CRRN; Alyssa Reardon, BSN, RN & Kaitlyn Patrick, MSN, RN, CNL
This presentation is intended for hospitals who are looking to develop a holistic program including those hospitals on the Magnet journey with a focus on holistic educational opportunities and evidence based best practices with an emphasis on healthcare staff self care.
Track: Practice, Education, Research, Personal & Professional Development (B, I)

73. How to Mind Your Words So They Heal, Not Hinder
Christina Cowgill, CRNA, RN, NC-BC, MBA, CH, CHBE
Nurses can unintentionally use words that harm rather than heal. Words become powerful suggestions that create thoughts, feelings, and beliefs instantly. This interactive discussion will leave you with a mouth full of “hypnotic language” words that return agility and power back to the individual. Uncover word meanings while discovering alternatives.
Track: Practice, Personal & Professional Development, Advanced Practice, Nurse Coaching (B, I)

74. Mindfulness: Visualizing Holistic Wellness
Kristen Butler, DNP, MSN, RN & Debra Rose Wilson, PhD, MSN, RN, IBCLC, AHN-BC, CHT
Mindfulness is a simple way of being present, visualizing wellness, and managing stress. Mindfulness teaches techniques that foster positive behaviors and attitudes, and help nurses flourish in today’s challenging healthcare landscape. This session engages nurses in mindful activities that will holistically support more effectively responding to stress and regulating emotions. Participants will learn strategies that can easily be integrated into daily practice such as breathing meditation, waking up with purpose, mindful pause, mindful eating, and body scan.
Track: Practice, Education, Personal & Professional Development (B, I)

75. Overcoming Challenges in Holistic Advanced Practice Nursing While Transforming Healthcare
Teresa Fadely, MSN, RN, AHN-BC, ACNP-BC, HWNC-BC & Mary Enzman Hines, PHD, APRN, CNS, CPNP-PC. AHN-BC, SGAHN
The advanced practice holistic nursing role has many challenges and these are experienced on a daily basis. Presenters will share key challenges for holistic APNs and creative ways to approach and overcome challenges on a personal/professional level. Through lecture/small group dialogue, these challenges will be shared with colleagues seeking solutions.
Track: Practice, Education, Research, Praxis, Personal & Professional Development, Aesthetics, Advanced Practice (I)

76.Growing Our Tree of Planetary Health, Nurturing Gardens of Interconnections
Leslie LaPointe, APRN, MSN, CPNP, CHSE, CIHSM; Laurie Laugeman, BSN, RN, HNB-BC, HWNC-BC & Heidi Honegger Rogers, DNP, FNP-C, APHN-BC
The proposed presentation from the AHNA Planetary Health Task Force is to give an overview of planetary health thinking and discuss day-to-day practices for planetary health that nurses can adopt now.
Track: Practice, Education, Personal & Professional Development, Advanced Practice (I)

77. Cultural Transformation to a Whole Health System Model of Care
Keri Darby, MSN, RN, AHN-BC, SGAHN & Mary Gallagher-Seaman, MSN, RN-BC, NE-BC
The VHA has been transforming to a Whole Health System model of care. Learn the steps taken to include the voice of nursing in large scale implementation and how nurses are learning to incorporate WH and Employee WH into their nursing practice and self-care strategies. The audience is all nurses.
Track: Practice, Education, Research (I, A)

82. Overcoming Overwhelm: A 3-Step Model for Bouncing Back
Allessandria Polizzi, PhD, SPHR
You do not need another session on burnout. This session will share tactics from decades of research on overcoming overwhelm, including the
role of trauma-responses and how to overcome them using our easy-to learn three-step model.
Track: Research, Personal & Professional Development (I)

83. How Holistic Therapies Transform our Sick Care into True Healthcare
Debra Reis, MSN, RN, HN-C
To guide the nurse in implementing holistic modalities such as relaxation therapies, aromatherapy, and gentle movement therapies in clinical
settings with success. When nurses are empowered with these tools and know how to use them effectively for balance and peace even during chaos, we transform sick care into a true healthcare environment.
Track: Practice, Education, Personal & Professional Development (I)

84. Administering Medications: Is it a “Doctor Order” or Part of the Nursing Plan of Care
Sameh Ghareeb, PhD, RN
Generally, the nurse is thought to be under a certain obligation to implement physician’s orders. The purpose of this workshop is to emphasize the importance of nursing process and nursing theories in providing holistic nursing care, that includes administration of medications and requesting labs.
Track: Practice, Education, Personal & Professional Development (I)

85. Inspiriting Holistic Nursing through the Integrative Practice Nurse Specialist Role
Alison Leitch, BSN, RN, HNB-BC, IAC, HMCT®, Caritas Coach®
This presentation will take you on a journey of growth and inspiration by a holistic team that created a unique, dedicated position to support
caregivers, leaders and patients. Ongoing transformation of best practices and advocating for whole person care through reflection, creativity, collaboration/engagement, role modeling and presence are emphasized.
Track: Practice, Education, Praxis, Personal & Professional Development, Aesthetics, Nurse Coaching (I)

86. Embodied Nursing- How to ground, center and embody healing presence
Alison Shaw, MS, RN, LMT CBHS
The purpose of this workshop is to help transform your experience of nursing by learning to identify and release of the automatic energetic
body-mind postures that are adopted over the course of our lifetimes under stress, and to teach techniques for embodying postures of wholeness, intentionality and healing presence to enhance holistic nursing clinical practice and self care.
Track: Practice, Personal & Professional Development, Advanced Practice, Nurse Coaching (I, A)

87. The Lived Experiences of Parenting Adult Children with Developmental/Intellectual Disabilities
Siri Gurunam Kaur Khalsa, MSN, RN
The purpose of this research study is to understand, from a hermeneutic lens, the lived experiences of parents living in New Mexico who continue to care for their adult children with developmental/ intellectual disabilities (DD/ID). The three aims are: to describe the common meanings and shared practices of parenting an adult with DD/ID; to understand the challenges parents face in their current lives and the resources they use to meet those challenges; and to elucidate the practical advice parents have for others who wish to be supportive of their efforts of parenting an adult with DD/ID.
Track: Practice, Education, Research, Personal & Professional Development, Aesthetics (B, I, A)

22. Auricular Acupuncture for Nurses: The NADA Five-Point Protocol
Elicia Baker-Rogers, DNP, RN, COHN-S, CCM, AHNBC, ADS, LMT, BCTMB & Katurah Bryant, LMFT, RN, LADC, NADA-RT

32. Get More Clients with Less Effort: Holistic Marketing for Nurses
Sharon Burch, MSN, RN, APRN, PHCNS-BC, APHN-BC, HWNC-BC

42. Courageous Well-Being for Nurses: Finding a Path to Personal and Professional Renewal
Donna Gaffney, DNSc, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN

52. Renew, Restore, and Rebalance
Holly Kapusinski, MSN, RN, NC-BC, CPNP-PC

62. The Connections between the Gut Microbiome and Mental Health
Debra Rose Wilson, PhD, MSN, RN, IBCLC, AHN-BC, CHT & Leslie Binford, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC

72. Journey to a Holistic Model of Care at a Magnet Organization
Cidalia Vital, PhD, RN, CNL, CRRN; Alyssa Reardon, BSN, RN & Kaitlyn Patrick, MSN, RN, CNL

82. Overcoming Overwhelm: A 3-Step Model for Bouncing Back
Allessandria Polizzi, PhD, SPHR

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