Caring Science Integration with the Professional Role

Kaiser Permanente, Northern California

Caritas in ActionHow Caring Science informs and inspires KP caregivers and affirms our commitment to provide our

patients and their families exceptional care

Caritas Consortium 2014Caring Science:

Integration with the Professional Role

Honoring Health, Healing & Wholeness

Caring Science: Integration with the Professional Role

Intent to Contribute Statement:

Overview of a two-day workshop designed to explore integration of patient care with the professional role,

emphasizing Caring Science as a framework, introducing basic HeartMath concepts and techniques and relating

the language of the Caritas Processes to specific hospital strategic initiatives.

This is a dynamic, highly experiential 2-day workshop during which PCS nurses will (Objectives):

Reunite with the reasons they became nurses Relate the Caritas Processes using storytelling and practical to professional practice Explore how Caring Science is fully integrated with the expectations of nursing governing and

professional bodies Discover their professional strengths as they relate to the components of our professional role

as well as opportunities for enhancement using the language of the Caring Science Learn and practice new techniques for new and renewed relationships with self, peers, and the

community Relate the language of the Caritas Process into current hospital strategic initiatives

Pain Management, Cultural Competence, Quiet at Night, Mobility, End-of-Life Care, and Safety in the Workplace


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Guiding Questions – Day 1:

What brought you to this profession? What do you value most about being a nurse? What are your “special gifts”? Why are you here today, in this place? Why are others here? What are we here to do together?

Guiding Questions – Day 2:

How do we integrate what is important? How do we take our whole being to the bedside? How do we share with our teams? What do we need from each other? What do we need to grow and flourish?


Continued…Poem shared in expression of Caritas #8 – Co-Create…a Healing Environment for the Physical and Spiritual Self

which Respects Human Dignity:It is me that is love

I cannot change the world around me

But I don’t need to

It is me that is kindness

In the dark hours of despair and grief

My presence is love

It is me that is blessed

The product of all that I am, that I feel, that I know

Making myself an instrument of love in the world

Waiting for the moment to give myself to you, humbly, fully

I yearn to help make you whole

For that is my purpose, my reward, my work

I honor you, and all that you are

The universe has brought us together so that I can help you heal and in doing so, am healed .

Theresa Villorente, RN, BSN, MSNNurse Manager, Critical Care

Inspired Contributor(s): Theresa Villorente – Caritas Coach Leanne Deegenaars – Caritas Coach

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Service Area: San Mateo

Medical Center: SSF

Affiliation: PCS

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Year Shared: 2014

Venue: Caritas Consortium

Format: Poster

ID #: W01

Keyword TAGs: Identifier

Consortium2014-June, San Mateo, So. San Francisco, Poster, Caritas Coach, Patient Care Services

Education & Staff Dev, Caritas Leadership, Hospital Initiatives, Self, Team

Descriptor Authentic Relationship, Caritas

Consciousness, Resilience, Death & Dying, Pain Management, Palliative Care, Quiet/Sleep, Workplace Safety


Caring Science Integration with the Professional Role

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