This grant award
provides financial support to initiate and integrate a self-care program within
an institution. The intent is to help institutions promote and encourage
diverse models of Holistic Nursing activities focused on self-care; the models
are designed to provide nurses an opportunity to practice Holistic Nursing and
extend their self-care influence and practices to other nurses and/or patients
and families. The grant amount is $3,000.
Criteria:
To provide the initial
financial support for the initiation of self-care activities to promote diverse
models of Holistic Nursing that will be integrated into the institution.
A. Program must:
1. Strengthen the recognition and support for
holistic principles through the implementation of specific ongoing holistic
self-care activities
2. Develop opportunities for nurses to move
deeper into the Holistic Nursing specialty by extending their influence and
practices to other nurses and/or patients and families
3. Develop opportunities for Holistic Nurses to
extend their influence by supporting colleagues and others in a holistic
self-care activity
4. Look at self-care from a fresh holistic
perspective that fits your culture (i.e. labyrinth, meditation room/s, laughter
yoga, aromatherapy, self-reflection garden, roaming anti-stress minstrels,
etc.)
B. Grant Director must:
1. Be Holistic Nursing certified (HN-BC, HNB-BC,
AHN-BC)
2. Be an active AHNA member
3. Be currently employed within the institution
where the program will be implemented
4. Agree to present the grant implementation
activities summary/outline in a Beginnings magazine article and/or
present poster/workshop at the annual AHNA conference
C. One letter of support
must be submitted from an Institutional Executive showing intent and support
that includes how this self-care activity fits into the institutional mission
and philosophy, how this program will be integrated moving forward, and how the
activity will be sustained upon completion of the grant.