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AMBASSADOR SPOTLIGHT
Each month, we highlight a Clinical, Faculty, or Student Ambassador from the University community, who strives to carry out the Compassionate Care Initiative's mission in their environment.
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Meet Compassionate Care Initiative Faculty Ambassador Dr. Beth Epstein, a Professor of Nursing who has been at U.Va. for about twenty years. She believes deeply that nurses have a powerful place in healthcare and she strives to show this in her work. Dr. Epstein directs U.Va.'s moral distress consult service, designed to help clinicians identify the causes of moral distress and develop strategies to improve their individual situations. She believes that addressing moral distress can help to build resilience. Read more.
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Have you listened to the Public Radio documentary series Resilient Nurses, sponsored by the Compassionate Care Initiative? Chronicling what ails the nation's RNs and what might heal their broken hearts, we hope the program will inspire nurses, nursing professors, nursing students, and others in healthcare to begin their own resilient practices! Listen to the podcast, online.
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RETREAT REGISTRATION OPEN:
Deep Healing for Health Professionals and Other Healers: Meditations of Innate Compassion and Wisdom
Facilitated by John Makransky, PhD
Saturday, April 4, 2015
9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Morven Farms
To be a healing presence for others, we need to heal deep within. For that, we need to connect to a more open, unconditional part of our being, a basic kindness and compassion available in the background of our experience, in our fundamental awareness.
Space is limited.
Online registration is required.
Registration Fee:
$25.00 UVA | $50.00 Community
No registration fees will be refunded for cancellations.
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In response to the Public Radio documentary series Resilient Nurses, Susan Bauer-Wu, Compassionate Care Initiative (CCI) Director, and Laura Goad, CCI Student Ambassador and third-year nursing student, were interviewed by local news channel NBC29 about CCI and our sponsorship of Resilient Nurses. Watch the segment, that originally aired on March 1, 2015.
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13th Annual Celebration of Reflective and Creative Writing
The Compassionate Care Initiative is currently seeking original writings (clinical reflections, prose and poems) that illustrate experiences, impressions, and images, from the
nursing students’ perspective.
The submission deadline is Monday, March 23, 2015.
The criteria and online submission link can be found here.
In addition to publishing opportunities, top entries will be recognized with a monetary award, thanks to the generous donors to the Nursing Annual Fund and the Nursing Alumni Association!
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REGISTRATION OPEN:
The 2nd Melton D. & Muriel Haney Interprofessional Conference on Compassionate Care at the End of Life
Saturday, April 18, 2015 | 8:45 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. | UVa School of Nursing
Conference Brochure and Schedule
Registration Fee: $35.00 UVA, MJH, HOPVA | $75.00 Community
To register, please visit: www.cmevillage.com
Co-sponsored by the UVa School of Nursing Compassionate Care Initiative, UVa School of Medicine Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, Hospice of the Piedmont, and Martha Jefferson Hospital.
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Interprofessional Life Drawing Workshop is Enjoyed by
Nursing and Medical Students
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This semester, the Compassionate Care Initiative and the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities co-sponsored a program called The Anatomy of Reflection - an art and contemplation series for UVA nursing and medical students. The program was made-up of three distinct workshops - Life Drawing, Mindfulness Practice, and Creative Writing.
The two pictures above and one below are from the Life Drawing workshop, where nursing and medical students ventured away from the halls of McLeod and Claude Moore and convened in a drawing studio at the UVA Studio Art Building earlier this month. The three-part, Life Drawing workshop, designed to promote relaxation and cultivate appreciation for the human body was led by Lauren Catlett, CNL student, CCI Student Ambassador, and Rx3 co-facilitator. Students made drawings of nude and clothed models on the basis of three themes: empathy, perspective, and collaboration. Following each session, students reflected on the connections they saw between the practice of drawing and their future practice in healthcare. About the workshop series, one of this year’s participants commented, “I think it’s a welcome release for students, but more than that, I think it helps us to remember to see the human body as a thing of beauty, not just a broken machine.”
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Ongoing, Weekly Drop-in Sessions
Open to the public - no experience required!
Mondays
Gentle Yoga | 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. | McLeod Hall 2010
Led by Esther Lozano, RYT
Mindful Lunches | 12:15 - 12:45 p.m. | McLeod Hall 2010
Co-led by Susan Bauer-Wu, Anna DeLong, and Jane Muir
Bring your own lunch and take a breather in the middle of the day.
Tuesdays
Viniyoga | 8:00 - 8:50 a.m. | McLeod Hall 2010
Led by Tamara Fischer-White, RYT
Meditation | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | McLeod Hall 2025
Led by Sam Green
Wednesdays
Meditation | 6:00 – 7:00 a.m. | McLeod Hall 2025
Led by Jonathan Bartels
Thursdays
T'ai Chi | 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. | McLeod Hall 2010
Led by Hiromi Johnson
Co-sponsored by CCI and CSC
Meditation | 5:30 – 6:15 p.m. | McLeod Hall 2025
Co-led by Susan Bauer-Wu, Julie Connelly, and Michael Swanberg
Fridays
Drop-in Mindfulness for Restoration & Self-care | 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
University Hospital, room 3614
Join us when you can, for as long as you can, for gently guided mindfulness combined with silence.
Co-sponsored by CCI, FEAP, Chaplaincy, and UVa Mindfulness Center
Gentle/Restorative Yoga | 5:15-6:15 p.m. | McLeod Hall 2010
Led by Esther Lozano
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A free, monthly program that offers opportunities for meditation, artistic expression, reflective and creative writing, and mini-massages as a way to relieve stress and form connections within the health professional community.
Monthly on Tuesday evenings:
March 17th, April 21st
6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Group session followed by mini-massages, refreshments, and informal networking
(7:00-8:00 p.m.)
McLeod Hall 2010
Co-led by Susan Bauer-Wu, Lauren Catlett, and Linda Kobert
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Friday, April 3, 2015 | 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Ruffner Hall G008
Adapting Compassion Training from Tibet: Empowering the Deeper Personhood of Self and Others
Presented by John Makranksy, Professor of Buddhism and Comparative Theology at Boston College, senior academic advisor and lecturer for Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche’s Centre for Buddhist Studies in Nepal, guiding meditation teacher of the Foundation for Active Compassion (a socially engaged Buddhist organization), and author of the popular meditation manual Awakening through Love
REGISTER HERE
Co-sponsored by CCI and CSC.
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MEDICINE CABINET is a collective response to the question:
"What do you do for healing or self-improvement?"
Currently on display in the Resilience Room (McLeod 2025), this interactive art project is spearheaded by CCI Student Ambassador, Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) Student, Rx3 co-facilitator, and artist, Lauren Catlett.
We encourage you to consider this question, visit the Resilience Room or the MEDICINE CABINET blog, and share your own remedies to help fill the medicine cabinet!
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"To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour,..."
---William Blake
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Have questions about any of the Compassionate Care Initiative's programs? Please contact Hannah Walker at hrw5x@virginia.edu or 434-924-1917.
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