What you provide is what our employees need- you have what we need to sustain ourselves in incredibly difficult work. I'm really excited about your program, which meets another dimension of caring for caregivers. |
Mark Grace
Director of Pastoral Care
Baylor Healthcare System, Dallas, TX |
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Care for the Journey is going to make a huge difference in any caregiver's life |
Wendy Peche, Planetree Coordinator
Aurora Healthcare |
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| We are using Care for the Journey tracks as a reflection before our Caring Advocate meeting, the group helping incorporate Jean Watson's Caring Theory into practice. We played one track at our last meeting and the members now want to play a track at the beginning of each of our meetings, held every other month. Thank you for this! |
Linda Ryan Ph.D., RN
Director of Nursing Quality, Research & Professional Development
RMC Nursing Administration |
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We played it in our hospital lobby, decorated with banners and poster presentations from nursing units, for our Nurses Week celebration. The music was a soothing, calming welcome for patients and visitors entering the facility. What I noticed about nurses, physicians and other caregivers though ... was how the messages seemed to slow them down, to still their pace for a few minutes, and pull them into the space where the music was coming from.
The messages do that of their own ... they draw you "in" to a quiet space inside your professional soul - and they speak more clearly than what you can put into words - what you already "know". They give meaning to what can easily be lost in the flurry of a task.
In this small package of blended melodies and messages, the gift of caregiving is celebrated, is nurtured, and is witnessed with clarity for its capacity to give light and life. |
Mary Ann O'Connor, Director
Clinical Operations Improvement
Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego |
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| I am deeply touched by your work. I have been a critical care nurse, educator and administrator for 23 years. I have never encountered an audio presentation that so perfectly captured the deep essence of compassion-based care that I have lived, witnessed and experienced in my nursing work. I believe deeply that unless we attend to the spirit of our healers, acknowledge their distress and reawaken their spirits we are heading for an unprecedented crisis in the work world of our health care providers. Compassion and spiritual rejuvenation for providers is like water to a thirsty camel.....consumed quickly and with deep appreciation! Thank you for pushing this dream into a manifest reality for all of us! |
| Sue Chapman RN BScN CNC(C) |
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| I ordered and have received CDs to give as gifts to the exceptional nurses I work within Cardiology. I have listened to it, enjoyed and appreciate it. Thank you so much! Deb |
D.M., RN
Director of Cardiac Services |
