caritas on the move - creating caritas champions

Kaiser Permanente, Northern California

Caritas in ActionHow Caring Science informs and inspires KP caregivers and affirms our commitment to provide our

patients and their families exceptional care

Caritas Consortium 2013

Caritas on the Move – Creating Caritas Champions

Intent to Contribute Statement: In 2010 Kaiser South Sacramento Medical Center adopted Caring Science as the foundation of our

care experience. The decision was made to acknowledge that each nurse and nurse leader have the

power to affect the changes needed to realize our mission to provide high-quality, affordable health

care services, and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve. In an

effort to transform South Sacramento Kaiser Permanente one heart, one caregiver at a time, the

Caring Council developed a Caritas in Action Coaching team to inspire other Caring Council’s to

move the work of Caring Science forward in order to get it to the front line staff. Significance:

Caregivers need tools to prepare them to be authentically present, as they are deeply affected by

stressful situations at work. Caritas on the move employs 2 main Caritas processes, Process #7:

Engaging in genuine teaching-learning experience that attends to unity of being and subjective

meaning—attempting to stay within the others frame of reference and Caritas Process #4:

Developing and sustaining a helping-trusting Caring Relationship. The purpose of the Caritas on the

Move team is to inspire caring councils to take the Caritas in Action material and train front line

staff during huddle messages, staff meanings, skills day and any other authentic teaching

opportunities.


While having these Caritas encounters on the units the coaching team themselves will be building

helping trusting relationships of support for the work of Caring Sciences. Setting and Participants:

The project will take place throughout all of PCS and any other department that wants to learn

more about Caring Sciences. The way that this work aligns with caring for Self is the support that

Caring councils need in order to be empowered to move the work forward and the relationships

that will be built, Caring for Patients as the information is shared, we train staff to be the work

verses just doing the work, Caring for the Care-giver team we see that the teams are empowered

and given the training tools to be successful, and Caring for the Medical Center-all of Patient Care

services will be in alignment with the vision of Caring Science for Kaiser Permanente.

…Continued



Inspired Contributor(s) 1 : Charlene Johnson Ellen R. Martin Kay Severs

------

Service Area: South Sacramento

Medical Center: SSC

Affiliation: PCS

------

Year Shared: 2013

Venue: Caritas Consortium

Format: Poster, PowerPoint

ID #: W06

Keyword TAGs: Identifier

Consortium2013-July, So. Sacramento, Podium, Poster, Patient Care Services

Caritas in Action, Education & Staff Dev, Culture, Caritas Leadership, Team

Descriptor Caritas Consciousness

Without an awakening and awareness of

our very Being, our Presence, our

Intentionality, and consciousness AS the field

of environment, we can actually be destructive to

self and others.

What we acknowledge…

Each nurse and nurse leader have the power to affect the changes needed to realize our

mission to provide high-quality, affordable health care services, and to improve the

health of the members and the communities we serve.

Introduction: CARITAS IN ACTION

Inspired LeadershipHow Caring Science informs and inspires the nursing process and affirms the commitments of Kaiser Permanente Nurses to provide our patients and their families exceptional care.

Introduction (con’t)

• 2010: Kaiser SSC Medical Center adopted Jean Watson’s Theory of Caring Science as the foundation for our care experience.• 2011-2012: The Leading with Care modules

were introduced to leadership/management team.

Introduction (con’t)

In December of 2012 Region began to innovatively share the “Caritas in Action” roll

out with PCS, which allowed us to imbed Caritas into our daily practice by training the front line

staff through small 15-20 minutes sessions, huddles, one on one conversations, etc.

We are fostering four key relationships as we reach out:

• Caring for Self: revitalize our identity as caregivers

• Caring for Caregiver team: create a foundation for collaborative, patient centered caring and healing

• Caring for Patients and Family: Honor the unique perspectives of our patients and their families

• Caring for Communities we serve: Advocate and promote total health within our communities that we serve

Caritas on the Move employs two main Caritas processes:

• Caritas Process 7: Engaging in genuine teaching-learning experience that attends to unity of being and subjective meaning—attempting to stay within the others frame of reference• Caritas Process 4: Developing and sustaining

helping trusting Caring Relationships.

Purpose:

1. To inspire/encourage caring council members to feel comfortable enough to take the material and train front line staff during huddle messages, staff meetings, skills day and any other teaching opportunities.

2. To develop and sustain a helping-trusting caring relationship by connecting with the Caring Council members, managers, departments or ANYONE who wants to infuse the Science of Caring in their work and life.

Caritas on the Move is working to inspire…

• Perinatal Services

• Peri-op services, ASU, PACU

• GI

• Inpatient medsurg nursing units

• Volunteers—learned hand massage for pilot project

• The SSC Caring Council—demonstrations

• Everyone! (see our booth for the medical centers nurses week presentations)

Caritas on the Move

We would like to leave you with this:

• Caring Science is not about 1 or 2 people, its about all of us being the work.

• Caring Science is about the tapestry of seeing every thing that we do through the eyes of caring science.

caritas on the move - creating caritas champions

Health & Medicine

caritas champions caritas

caritas leadership

caritas encounters

caritas championspage

caring councils

reference caritas process

patient care services

caritas champions intent