KU Medical Center Continuing Education

Overview

Habitats for healing are optimal environments in which nurses and other professional healing colleagues thrive and patients receive quality, whole-person care that positively influences healing and curing (Quinn, 2002). Creating Habitats for Healing offers nurses and other healing professionals an opportunity for rest, renewal and re-imagining the workplace as a habitat for healing. We will explore the concepts and essential components of habitats for healing, including the nature of healing, spiritual dimensions of healing practice and the creation of healing relationships. Our emphasis will be on sustaining the wholeness and well being of healing professionals so that the sacred healing work that they do can continue and flourish.

References

• Quinn, J.F. (2009). "Transpersonal Human Caring and Healing." In Dossey, B. (ed.). Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice, 5th Edition. Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Publishers.
• Quinn, J.F., Smith, M., Ritenbaugh, C., Swanson, K., Watson, M.J., (2003). "Research Guidelines for Assessing the Impact of the Healing Relationship in Clinical Nursing." In Jonas, W.B. and Chez, R.A. (eds)., Definitions and Standards in Healing Research, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Special Supplement, 9(3): A65-A79.
• Quinn, J.F. (2002). "Revisioning the Nursing Shortage: A Call to Caring and Healing the Healthcare System." Lead article, topical issue: addressing the nursing shortage, in Frontiers of Health Services Management, 19(2):3-23.

Target Audience

This workshop is designed for registered nurses, advance practice nurses and other healthcare professionals who want to influence quality healthcare delivery and systems improvements, in hospitals, ambulatory care, social services, and community and business organizations.

Objectives

At the completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:

• Describe the Habitats for Healing model.
• Discuss the nature of healing and the role of the nurse/healing professional as an instrument of healing.
• Practice healing work with a renewed sense of the sacred.
• Recognize the essentiality of self-care in sustaining healing capacity.
• Apply concepts and practices of Habitats for Healing to the clinical practice environment.

Acknowledgments

This workshop is supported in part by an educational grant from Mary Anne Eisenbise.

Additional financial contributions, supporters and exhibitors for this program will be acknowledged in print at the symposium.

Exhibits

Commercial vendors are invited to exhibit at this meeting. Limited exhibit space will be available. Call Mary Gambino at 913-588-1695 or e-mail mgambino@kumc.edu for an application or more information.

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