New Caring Science, Mindful Practice Website and Blog Hi Everyone,Dr. Stizman is a Professor, Undergraduate Nursing Science, at East Carolina University (NC). She created a beautiful website caringsciencemindfulpractice.com with a CSMP (Caring Science Mindful Practice) Blog that I want to share with you. Dr. Sitzman created this because so many of her colleagues, students, and […]
Month: February 2019
Meditation Site Worth Your Time
Happy Monday! I don’t know about you but I find it difficult to make myself meditate; and I say “make myself’ because everyone has 10 minutes for themselves in a day. Sam Harris’ Waking Up app is a perfect way to start a meditation practice or reenter one. The link is https://wakingup.com/?_ga=2.155872956.600188066.1551142522-1769470926.1551142522 Sam Harris is […]
Tenderness
As I listen to the nourishing rains falling on the Tucson desert I wonder; what have you done to nourish yourself lately?
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!
Funny thing this Valentine’s Day, my husband of 29 years and I gave each other the SAME CARD!! It was weird and cool at the same time 🙂 To all my viewer valentines enjoy this day & look for the love all around you.
Application Information for Integrative Nursing Faculty Fellowship 💞 2019-2020
Dear Colleagues- From the University of Arizona College of Nursing, this is a one-of-a-kind opportunity. Take some time and check out the links. I am one of the first graduates, the 2016-2017 cohort, of this fellowship and wish I could do it again. The application for the Integrative Nursing Fellowship (INF) is currently open through March 15th! Since […]
The Principles of Integrative Nursing
Integrative nursing became a healing discipline when Florence Nightingale (1859-1946) found treating wounds and disease was only one part of healing (Koithan, 2018). She believed that treatments were providing the systems of the patient the ability to leave the patient “in the best position for nature to act upon” them (Nightingale, 1859/1946, p. 75). Six […]
Integrative Nursing Faculty Fellowship (INFF)
I was proud to be part of the very first pilot program of the INFF. If you are nursing faculty anywhere in the country I would highly recommend this experience. I learned two healing modalities that I can practice today; Equine Therapy using HeartMath energy work was taught to our INFF group by Dr. Ann […]
What is an integrative nurse?
Integrative therapy is rising in the medical field. Why? Because patients are demanding complementary treatments along with traditional medicine. Most of the integrative therapies in use are thousands of years old. Research is growing each day to support these therapies. However, integrative nursing strives for evidence-informed research. What does the mean? It means the therapy […]
The Integrative Nurse 