"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. "

1. Kaiser Permanente, Northern California
Caritas in Action
How Caring Science informs and inspires KP caregivers and affirms our commitment to provide our
patients and their families exceptional care
Caritas Consortium 2014
Caring Science:
Integration with the Professional Role
Honoring Health, Healing & Wholeness

2. 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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3. Caring Science: Integration with the Professional
Role
Continued…
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?
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4. Caring Science: Integration with the Professional
Role
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, MSN
Nurse Manager, Critical Care
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5. 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
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