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 2013
Caritas on the Move – Creating Caritas Champions
Intent to Contribute Statement: In 2010 Kaiser South Sacramento Medical Center adopted Caring Science as the foundation of our
care experience. The decision was made to acknowledge that each nurse and nurse leader have the
power to affect the changes needed to realize our mission to provide high-quality, affordable health
care services, and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve. In an
effort to transform South Sacramento Kaiser Permanente one heart, one caregiver at a time, the
Caring Council developed a Caritas in Action Coaching team to inspire other Caring Council’s to
move the work of Caring Science forward in order to get it to the front line staff. Significance:
Caregivers need tools to prepare them to be authentically present, as they are deeply affected by
stressful situations at work. Caritas on the move employs 2 main Caritas processes, Process #7:
Engaging in genuine teaching-learning experience that attends to unity of being and subjective
meaning—attempting to stay within the others frame of reference and Caritas Process #4:
Developing and sustaining a helping-trusting Caring Relationship. The purpose of the Caritas on the
Move team is to inspire caring councils to take the Caritas in Action material and train front line
staff during huddle messages, staff meanings, skills day and any other authentic teaching
opportunities.
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While having these Caritas encounters on the units the coaching team themselves will be building
helping trusting relationships of support for the work of Caring Sciences. Setting and Participants:
The project will take place throughout all of PCS and any other department that wants to learn
more about Caring Sciences. The way that this work aligns with caring for Self is the support that
Caring councils need in order to be empowered to move the work forward and the relationships
that will be built, Caring for Patients as the information is shared, we train staff to be the work
verses just doing the work, Caring for the Care-giver team we see that the teams are empowered
and given the training tools to be successful, and Caring for the Medical Center-all of Patient Care
services will be in alignment with the vision of Caring Science for Kaiser Permanente.
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Caritas on the Move – Creating Caritas Champions
Inspired Contributor(s) 1 : Charlene Johnson Ellen R. Martin Kay Severs
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Service Area: South Sacramento
Medical Center: SSC
Affiliation: PCS
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Year Shared: 2013
Venue: Caritas Consortium
Format: Poster, PowerPoint
ID #: W06
Keyword TAGs: Identifier
Consortium2013-July, So. Sacramento, Podium, Poster, Patient Care Services
Caritas in Action, Education & Staff Dev, Culture, Caritas Leadership, Team
Descriptor Caritas Consciousness
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Without an awakening and awareness of
our very Being, our Presence, our
Intentionality, and consciousness AS the field
of environment, we can actually be destructive to
self and others. Page 7
What we acknowledge…
Each nurse and nurse leader have the power to affect the changes needed to realize our
mission to provide high-quality, affordable health care services, and to improve the
health of the members and the communities we serve.
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Introduction: CARITAS IN ACTION
Inspired LeadershipHow Caring Science informs and inspires the nursing process and affirms the commitments of Kaiser Permanente Nurses to provide our patients and their families exceptional care.
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Introduction (con’t)
• 2010: Kaiser SSC Medical Center adopted Jean Watson’s Theory of Caring Science as the foundation for our care experience.• 2011-2012: The Leading with Care modules
were introduced to leadership/management team.
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Introduction (con’t)
In December of 2012 Region began to innovatively share the “Caritas in Action” roll
out with PCS, which allowed us to imbed Caritas into our daily practice by training the front line
staff through small 15-20 minutes sessions, huddles, one on one conversations, etc.
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We are fostering four key relationships as we reach out:
• Caring for Self: revitalize our identity as caregivers
• Caring for Caregiver team: create a foundation for collaborative, patient centered caring and healing
• Caring for Patients and Family: Honor the unique perspectives of our patients and their families
• Caring for Communities we serve: Advocate and promote total health within our communities that we serve
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Caritas on the Move employs two main Caritas processes:
• Caritas Process 7: Engaging in genuine teaching-learning experience that attends to unity of being and subjective meaning—attempting to stay within the others frame of reference• Caritas Process 4: Developing and sustaining
helping trusting Caring Relationships.
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Purpose:
1. To inspire/encourage caring council members to feel comfortable enough to take the material and train front line staff during huddle messages, staff meetings, skills day and any other teaching opportunities.
2. To develop and sustain a helping-trusting caring relationship by connecting with the Caring Council members, managers, departments or ANYONE who wants to infuse the Science of Caring in their work and life.
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Caritas on the Move is working to inspire…
• Perinatal Services
• Peri-op services, ASU, PACU
• GI
• Inpatient medsurg nursing units
• Volunteers—learned hand massage for pilot project
• The SSC Caring Council—demonstrations
• Everyone! (see our booth for the medical centers nurses week presentations)
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We would like to leave you with this:
• Caring Science is not about 1 or 2 people, its about all of us being the work.
• Caring Science is about the tapestry of seeing every thing that we do through the eyes of caring science.
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