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| Summoning the Sage Within:
Summit of Sages Pre-conference |
Creative Health Care Management's Pre-conference was an amazing success! Marie Manthey and Kristen Swanson provided inspiring keynote speeches. We thank our panel presenters for sharing their wisdom, and all attendees for sharing their innovations in Relationship-Based Care. What a gift it was to be able to learn from each other in such a beautiful and comfortable setting!
More than 100 people from across the United States and around the world – including Iceland and Brazil – came to St. Paul, Minnesota this year for the Summit of Sages. Chief nursing officers to staff nurses told each other stories of successful patient care. Academics and parishioners shared their experiences in the field. Nursing veterans and student nurses described their visions of nursing and social justice to each other. We all shared our Moments of Excellence.
We were able to honor the excellence of two specific people with awards. Beth Ware, Director of Patient Care, Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital (Florence, AL) received the CHCM National Mentoring Award. The recipient of the 2007 Marie Manthey Award for Primary Nursing was Cathy Hennessey, NICU staff nurse, from the Fairview University Medical Center (Minneapolis, MN).
We were blessed to have Cheryl Kartes share her artistic talents as well. She did a marvelous job capturing conversations – moving from table to table to capture everyone’s vision – and using it to create a beautiful artist’s rendering of the event. Click on the image to the left to see a larger image.
CHCM is selling audio CDs of the pre-conference. Call our Resources Department at 800.264.3246 for pricing and ordering information.
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| Summit of Sages Main Conference |
The Summit of Sages, An Extraordinary Event for Leaders, hosted by the University of Minnesota School of Nursing and The Densford Center for Nursing Leadership, was an inspiring three-day event. Five sages from health care or related fields spoke passionately to the theme of Social Justice. John Howe III, President and CEO of Project Hope, and Jean Watson, founder of the Center for Human Caring, were keynote speakers. The themes and speakers inspired participants as they engaged in passionate dialogue about action steps toward achieving social justice.
One of the highlights of the event was undoubtedly the hour spent Sunday evening with Maya Angelou. Marie Manthey has captured the magic of that evening on her blog. Please see what she has to say and leave a comment and let us all know what you thought.
The ninety voice Twin Cities Women's choir entertained attendees, following a lovely banquet sponsored by CHCM on Monday evening. A perfect way to wrap up three long conference days, the choir provided vocal stylings ranging from classic choir tunes to renditions of entertaining and lively contemporary pieces. It was a shining example of togetherness. Pitch perfect, never missing a cue, and precise even in the complex fugues, they showed us what determination and hard work can do. A point to remember: no auditions are required to participate in the choir, just a willingness to learn and be a productive member of the choir. We were honored to have them be a part of the conference.
And last (but certainly not least) we were thrilled to see our excitement over the long anticipated release of the Relationship-Based Care Field Guide shared by all of you. This collection of visions, strategies, tools and exemplars has been nearly three years in the making and draws on the wisdom and experience of over 50 people committed to transforming health care. It was an instant hit at the Summit of Sages, and has been a steady seller in the weeks since. It is an amazing book and a vital companion to Relationship-Based Care: A Model for Transforming Practice, the original RBC text and national best seller.
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| The Sages |
Afaf Meleis, PhD, RN, FAAN
Throughout her illustrious career, Afaf Meleis has effectively
woven together roles as researcher, educator, dean (currently
of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing), and passionate
champion for the rights of women across cultures and countries.
Rosemarie Reger-Rumsey, RN
As Executive Director
of Listening House, the "living room" for homeless people in
St Paul, Rosemarie Reger-Rumsey has used her amazing skills
at community organization and her unique ability to connect
with those in desperate circumstances to help them add a dimension
of quality to their lives.
Cheryl Robertson, PhD, MPH, RN
Cheryl Robertson's
extraordinary work with survivors of torture has taken her to
many of the war-torn countries around the world, resulting in
a profound understanding of the similarities and differences
among people, and a deep understanding of the human spirit,
both the good and bad.
Gene Thin Elk, MA
Gene Thin Elk is a Lakota
Sioux, spiritual leader and healer to the "Wase Wakpa" Sioux
community, and cultural advisor who is an exceptionally wise
and highly respected voice in the field of Native American drug
and alcohol rehabilitation and cross-cultural training.
Bill Thomas, MD, PhD
Bill Thomas is a physician
who passionately believes that the current state of affairs
for the elderly, particularly those in nursing homes must change
- and through initiatives such as the Eden Alternative and Green
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| Guest Speakers |
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature
and as a remarkable Renaissance woman. A poet, educator, historian,
best-selling author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist,
producer and director, Dr. Angelou continues to travel the world
making appearances, spreading her legendary wisdom.
A mesmerizing vision of grace, swaying and stirring when she moves, Dr. Angelou captivates her audiences lyrically with vigor, fire and perception. She has the unique ability to shatter the opaque prisms of race and class between reader and subject throughout her books of poetry and her autobiographies. She has authored twelve best-selling books including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and her current best-seller A Song Flung Up to Heaven.
In 1981, Dr. Angelou was appointed to a lifetime position as the first Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University. In January 1993, she became only the second poet in U.S. History to have the honor of writing and reciting original work at the Presidential Inauguration.
John Howe III, MD
A board certified physician in both internal medicine and cardiology.
Dr.
Howe has been President and CEO of Project
Hope since 2001. Prior to that time, he was the Chief Executive
Officer at the University of Texas Health Science Center at
San Antonio for fifteen years. He has served recent terms as
President of both the Texas Medical Association and the Bexar
County Medical Society, and is currently Chair of the Harvard
College Board of Overseers Committee at the Medical School and
School of Dental Medicine and a member of the Board of Visitors
at the Boston University School of Public Health. He is also
the founding President of the Texas Society for Biomedical Research,
a member and past Chair of the American Medical Association's
Council on Scientific Affairs and a past member of the United
States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.
Among his numerous honors and awards are the U.S. Army's Commander's Award for Public Service, the People of Vision Award from the Texas Society to Prevent Blindness, the Award of Excellence from the International Association of Business Communicators, the National Humanitarian Award from the National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine and the Surgeon General's Exemplary Service Award. In 2006, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Boston University.
He has been featured on national television and in national journals as a leader in the biosciences. He represented the United States at a Tri-National Conference on Health in Mexico City, a forum designed to develop solutions to multi-national health concerns following the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Dr. Howe has spoken in more than 30 states, has presented testimony to the U.S. Congress and has been a national advocate for the importance of continued health care research.
Jean Watson, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dr.
Jean Watson is an internationally known scholar in human
caring and the art and science of caring in nursing. She is
Distinguished Professor of Nursing and holds an endowed Chair
in Caring Science at the University of Colorado Denver and Health
Sciences Center. She is founder of the original Center for Human
Caring in Colorado and is a Fellow of the American Academy of
Nursing. She previously served as Dean of Nursing at the University
Health Sciences Center and is a past president of the National
League for Nursing.
Dr. Watson's caring philosophy is used to guide transformative models of caring and healing practices for nurses and patients alike, in diverse settings worldwide. Watson has been featured in numerous national videos on nursing theory and the art of nursing. She is the recipient of several national awards, including The Fetzer Institute Norman Cousins Award, in recognition of her commitment to developing; maintaining and exemplifying relationship-centered care practices.
At the University of Colorado, Dr. Watson holds the title of Distinguished Professor of Nursing; the highest honor accorded its faculty for scholarly work. In 1999 she assumed the Murchinson-Scoville Chair in Caring Science, the nation's first endowed chair in Caring Science, based at the University of Colorado Denver & Health Sciences Center.
As author or co-author of over 12 books on caring, her latest
books range from empirical measurements of caring, to new postmodern
philosophies of caring and healing. Her most recent book is
Caring
Science as Sacred Science (2005, Philadelphia, PA:
F A Davis). These latest works, both AJN books of the year awards,
seek to bridge paradigms as well as point toward transformative
models for the 21st century. A new revised edition of her first
book, Nursing The Philosophy and Science of Caring,
will be published in 2007. |
| National Mentoring and Marie Manthey Primary Nursing Awards |
| We were able to honor the excellence of two specific people with awards. Beth Ware, Director of Patient Care, Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital (Florence, AL) received the CHCM National Mentoring Award. The recipient of the 2007 Marie Manthey Award for Primary Nursing was Cathy Hennessey, NICU staff nurse, from the Fairview University Medical Center (Minneapolis, MN). |
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