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1 Special Points of Interest Society for the Advancement of Modeling and Role Modeling Spring Newsletter 2012 Online Ericksonian Conference! The first ever, entirely online congress from Australia will be this July. Registrants can get a 50% discount through March. Here is the link ress.com/ Volume 22, No. 1 March, 2012 Message from the President: Temporarily Unplugged By Ellen Schultz, President, SAMRM The first week in March was spring break at our university and I was fortunate to spend the week in Mexico with my family. Before leaving I decided to leave my computer at home. Some of you are probably thinking well, of course while others are gasping at the thought of being electronically disconnected. Going on spring break without my computer was a first for me. I tend to use the week to combine time off with work. I confess that two days into my vacation I did use the computer in the resort office, but the combination of trying to use a computer with directions in Spanish and not being able to use key severely limited my work. And I turned my phone on once to text my son to make dinner plans when I didn t see him during my walk through the resort. Those lapses in commitment were followed by a serenity massage at the spa as an antidote. The observation that I made was that when I did not have my computer or phone to remind me that I had things to worry about, I didn t worry. I am normally not a great worrier but, like all of you, I am involved in many projects for both work and community service that compete for my attention. I find myself multitasking. When I didn t have my electronic reminders, I relaxed. I played with my grandkids in the pool, walked on the beach, read novels, and ate good food. It was wonderful. When we juggle multiple thoughts and or actions at the same time we are multitasking. Continued on page 3 Keynote Speakers: Facilitating Holistic Healing: Communicating and Connecting Inside this issue: Keynote Speakers 2 A Nursing Vision for Nursing Keynote Speakers 3 Self-care 4 Call for Grant Proposals 5 Student Corner 5 Membership Application 6 3 ma or as rescue and courage for the rest of their lives. Judith Simon Prager, PhD, is a clinical hypnotherapist with her degree in psychology. She has authored and coauthored several well-respected books about the protocol of Verbal First Aid, one of which has been Do you Speak Healing? Your very presence and the words and pictures you offer to someone in need can be elixirs to set a course for healing, recovery, even the will to live. In a time of more technology than touch, nurses can be the conduits of life-saving interactions that affect not only the physical and emotional experience in the moment of crisis but how patients/victims remember a frightening, painful event - as traudescribed as the The bible for crisis communication by the International Journal of Emergency Mental Health. She trains physicians, nurses, clinicians and first responders in medical centers across the United States as well as in England and China. She has been a consultant to hospitals, has a private practice in Los Angeles, and has appeared on Good Morning America and PBS Between the Lines. Speakers Continued on page 2

Metropolitan State University are pleased to sponsor this national conference. Communications: Bridge to Humanity Communications may be the key factor that determines the essence of our humanity.

2 Page 2 Key Note Speakers...Continued from page 1 Facilitating Holistic Healing: Communicating and Connecting October 5-7, 2012 Hilton Hotel, Mall of America The Society for the Advancement of Modeling and Role- Modeling and Metropolitan State University are pleased to sponsor this national conference. Communications: Bridge to Humanity Communications may be the key factor that determines the essence of our humanity. Communication among the multiple parts of the human is an essential process that integrates, balances, and synchronizes the whole, producing biological markers, qualities, characteristics, and even traits, that distinguish the human from other animals. Communication between nurse and client has the potential to affect the client s internal communication process. Specifically, a nurse s focused, purposeful communication has the potential to alter the client s worldview in such a way as to initiate normal, inherent growth and healing, and facilitate healthy development. Interpersonal communication also has the potential to interfere with the human s natural ability to grow and heal. This presentation will discuss the relationship between the communication within a human, communication between nurse and client, and the implications for holistic nursing practice. Distinctions between communication as a series of messages and communications as an infrastructure will also be discussed. Dr. Erickson will also present Grand Rounds on Sunday, October, 7th. Dr. Erickson. PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, is the primary author of the Modeling and Role-Modeling (MRM) nursing theory. Her first book, in collaboration with Tomlin and Swain, Modeling and Role-Modeling, A Theory and Paradigm for Nursing (1983) describes her holistic nursing theory. Dr. Erickson has edited and written chapters in two additional books Modeling and Role- Modeling: A View from the Client s World (2006) and Exploring the Interface between the Philosophy and Discipline of Holistic Nursing: Modeling and Role-Modeling at Work (2010). Dr. Erickson serves on the Board of Directors of the American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation and is recent chair of the board. She has been awarded with an Endowed Lectureship on Holistic Nursing. She was recently a keynote speaker at the Eleventh International Congress on Ericksonian Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy. She consults with health care facilities and schools of nursing on integrating holistic nursing and MRM theory into education and practice. She was named Professor Emerita by the University of Texas at Austin. Speakers continued below... In the Pursuit of Wellbeing and Whole Systems Healing In this presentation, Dr. Kreitzer will discuss the need to transcend disciplinary boundaries and the confines of the current health care system to advance wellbeing in people, families, communities, organizations and systems. Wellbeing supports and maximizes human and system capacity and potential. Whole systems healing is a way of thinking, leading and healing that prepares us to be agents of individual growth, social change and environmental restoration. As founder and director of the Center for Spirituality and Healing, Dr. Mary Jo Kreitzer brings more than 20 years of leadership and expertise to the field of integrative health and medicine. In addition to her administrative responsibilities in the Center for Spirituality and Healing, Mary Jo teaches a course on optimal healing environments in the graduate minor in integrative therapies and healing practices and is a tenured professor in the School of Nursing where she is co-director of the doctorate in nursing practice (DNP) program in integrative health and healing.. In 2009, she testified at a US Senate hearing titled Integrative Health: Pathway to Health Reform as well as the Institute of Medicine Summit titled Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public. She has conducted numerous funded studies on aspects of integrative healing. Dr. Kreitzer earned her doctoral degree in health services research and her masters and bachelor s degrees in nursing. Speakers Continued on page 3...

3 Page 3 Multi-tasking reduces productivity by as much as 40%, increases stress, and may drop IQ. Key Note Speakers Continued... Be Yourself or You ll Miss Your Life: Interior Design of the Heart: At the Friday night banquet, Joan Steffend will use her life as a template to discuss our potential and how living in the world can impact that. As a model of one s ability to re-create self, she will discuss way in which we can reclaim ourselves and our connection to others. Joan Steffend has spent almost thirty years in the media. She has been an Emmy-winning news reporter/ anchor at the NBC affiliate in Minneapolis/St. Presidents Message Continued... Bergman (2010) reported in the Harvard Business Review that multitasking reduces productivity by as much as 40%, increases stress and may drop IQ. Spring break is over and I am again fully connected. I suspect that my week free of multitasking did not raise my IQ but I am tackling my projects with renewed enthusiasm. One of those responsibilities is planning the 2012 MRM conference Facilitating Holistic Healing: Communicating and Connecting. Save the date: October 4th preconference, October 5th full Paul, a top-rated host of HGTV Decorating Cents, and the recipient of the Grand Award from the New York International Film Festival. Her many accomplishments have led to her appearances on Oprah, Live with Regis and Kelly, CBS Early Show, Today Show, Entertainment Tonight, among others. In 2010 she published her first book and she sparkled. Currently she is working with Peace Begins With Me (a small BIG peace project). conference begins. You will be notified as soon as the conference information and registration materials are available. Please see the description of the keynote presentation is this newsletter. See you at the conference. Bergman, P. (2010) How (and why) to stop multitasking. Harvard Business Review, May 20, 2010, Retrieved from - and-why-to-stop-multitaski.html A Nursing Vision for Nurses By Dian Inda The theory of Modeling and Role-Modeling articulates the importance of both understanding the client s vision for his or her healing, and process of facilitating the practical translation of that ideal into reality. Nursing has long recognized that client may be singular, in the case of a particular individual, or plural, in the case of the entire family, or even the populations that are dealt with by public health or school nurses. Holistic nursing also calls for supporting the self-care of the nurse. Consider nurse as plural; nurses as a profession. See the self-care as being a professional context that facilitates the fullest development of nursing as a profession; the redesign of the health care system called for by the 2008 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on nursing. In order to support our profession, it s time for translation of our ideals into concrete practice steps. Some small steps were started as nurse practitioners expanded their domain of practice into the realm of primary care. In that process, a subtle but profound difference emerged. Where the physician has traditionally focused in identification of deficits and problems, nursing s inherently holistic viewpoint illuminates strengths, prevention and potential for higher levels of wellness. The upcoming SAMRM conference calls for attention to the process of healing, Continued on page 4

4 Page 4 Consider nurse as plural; nurses as a profession. See the self-care as being a professional context that facilitates the fullest development of nursing as a profession Dian Inda Self-care: Wouldn t a Massage Feel Great? By Ellen Schultz After a day of leaning over the computer key board or lifting heavy clients and equipment, a massage may be just what the nurse ordered. More than a luxury treatment at a spa, massage therapy is a form of touch that is intentional and organized soft tissue manipulation, including holding, causing movement and/or applying pressure to the body that facilitates healing (Koopsen & Young, 2009, from the individual level out to the system. In America, our health care system is certainly in need of healing. In 1983, Erickson, Tomlin & Swain noted that educating the public was a step toward having a voice in the legislative process. Along with that comes the process of educating ourselves as nurses. Some of the practicing master s prepared nurse practitioners appear to view with disdain the fact that the increase in coursework from a masters level NP degree to a doctoral level NP degree has not been an increase in clinically relevant material; it is an increase in education regarding health care policy; awareness of it and how to participate in shaping it. Nurses as individuals and nursing as a profession needs to be more aware of what is going on at the legislative level. What are the trends in business and government as regards A Nursing Vision for Nurses Continued... healthcare? More to the point, where they lack, how can nursing find or develop the means to shape them to a better future. As a single example, in the state of Minnesota, currently under consideration are two bills, Senate bill SF0230 and House bill HF0462 of a bill called Nurse Licensure Compact which would allow reciprocal recognition of nursing licensure among all participating states. The Minnesota Nursing Association is vehemently against such a process. The National Council of State Boards of Nursing supports it. It would change the shape of nursing in the United States, but for better or for worse? Nurses need to be participating in that change. What constitutes looking for the strengths of nursing, and making them stronger? p. 298). Massage can result in physical release, such as eliminating toxins as well as emotional release. Oschman (2000) reported that reorganization of fiber patterns through massage may release memories (cellular memory). Massage does more than feel good. If that isn t enough, here is a list of just some of the benefits of massage: relieves stress, anxiety and muscle tension, increases range of motion and flexibility, improves circulation, reduces blood pressure, improves posture, strengthen reported the immune system, and fosters peace of mind (Koopen & Young, 2009, Oschman, 2000). For more information on the benefits and contraindications of massage or how to find a therapist, check Koopsen, C. & Young, C. (2009). Integrative health: A holistic approach for health professionals. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers. Oschman, J. (2000). Energy medicine the scientific basis. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone. 1 Available online as a free PDF download at: books.nap.edu/openbook.php? record_id= Fairman, J. (2008) Making room in the clinic: Nurse practitioners and the evolution of modern health care. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 3 Erickson, H. C., Tomlin, E. M. & Swain, M P. (1983) Modeling and role modeling: A theory and paradigm for nursing. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Page 5 SAMRM - Call for Grant Proposals SAMRM Awards Two awards will be presented at the 2012 conference, Contribution to the Society and Utilization/ Dissemination of Theory.

5 Page 5 SAMRM - Call for Grant Proposals SAMRM Awards Two awards will be presented at the 2012 conference, Contribution to the Society and Utilization/ Dissemination of Theory. Please see additional information including criteria on the website. Call for Abstracts Extended If you had planned to submit an abstract for the 2012 conference and ran out of time, it is not too late. The deadline for submissions has been extended until April 14, By Linda Baas Chair, Awards Committee The SAMRM Awards Committee is pleased to announce the opening of the Biennial research grant application process. We will be accepting grant applications between May 1, 2012 and August 30, Awards will be announced at the SAMRM Conference which will be held October 4-7, 2012 in Minneapolis. More information will be available on the website after May, 1, You will find information on the call for grants, application process, criteria for grading the proposals, and funding details. Student Corner By Metropolitan State University Nursing Students MRM has furthered my beliefs that nursing should be patient - centered and a patient does not need to be sick to benefit from nursing care and knowledge. Michelle Ellingson MRM has allowed me to open my eyes and focus on what the patients/clients may be lacking. Helping a them complete a developmental stage may facilitate healing in a lot of areas in their lives. It has also helped me focus on not judging, and modeling the client s world instead of criticizing it. Jessica Swentik It has taught me to be more intentional with my words and presence and to really treat the whole person. That s something I ve al- In 2008 the SAMRM board approved developing a research grant program to provide support for nurses conducting research that is based on Modeling and Role -Modeling. Funding for the grant would come from fund raising efforts at our auction held at the biennial conference. Under the direction of Susan Bowman, Past President of SAMRM we raised enough funds at the 2008 Conference to support the first research grant which was awarded in The recipient of the first research grant was Mary Elaine Koren, Ph.D., RN for the project entitled ways wanted to do, but now I have more tools and a system to use. Carmen Harris MRM has brought out the perspective of spirituality in my nursing. It has always been behind the scenes; now it is more on the forefront. Laura Johnson Spirituality of Staff Nurses: Application of the Modeling and Role- Modeling Theory. We will hear her results at the 2012 conference and will fund additional small grants for studies of MRM. So, check the website for more information and continue to help support the research efforts of the organization by participating in our auction or by adding a contribution to this fund. To contribute, send checks to our Treasurer, Bobbie Hopkins at the address listed on the membership form. Karen Bleier / AFP - Getty Images Cherry blossoms frame the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., on March 19, Warm weather along the East Coast triggered an early bloom this year _news/2012/03/26/ travel-photo-of-the-day-awash-incherry-blossoms

Membership Application Please Print SAMRM Executive Committee President Ellen Schultz Hudson, WI ellen.schultz@metrostate.

6 Membership Application Please Print SAMRM Executive Committee President Ellen Schultz Hudson, WI Name Address Phone (home) (Cell) (Work) President-elect Brenda Moffitt McPherson, KS Fax Secretary Mary Elaine Koren DeKalb, IL Profession Highest Degree Treasurer Bobbi Hopkins Kempner, TX Employee/Agency Affiliation Program Committee Chairs (2012 conference) Marilyn Loen St. Paul, MN Field of Employment/Position Riki Sheela Bemidji, MN Area of Specialization Nominating Committee Chair Newsletter Editor(s) Immediate Past President Theory Author Ellen Schultz Hudson, WI Riki Scheela Bemidji, MN Ellen Schultz Hudson, WI Judith Graziano St. Paul, MN Linda Baas Harrison, OH Helen Erickson Cedar Park, TX We re on the Web How do you want to be involved as a member? Please indicate your area(s) of interest Clinical practice Other MAIL TO: Bobbi Hopkins SAMRM Treasurer E. FM 580 Kempner, TX 76539, USA Teaching MRM Membership Desired General ($25/year) Student ($15/year) Scholarship Donation Please make checks payable to SAMRM MRM related research ($50/2 years) ($30/2 years) TOTAL

Facilitating Holistic Nursing Care Through A Cultural Lens

SAMRM Society for the Advancement of Modeling and Role-Modeling 17 th Biennial International Conference Facilitating Holistic Nursing Care Through A Cultural Lens September 19-21, 2018 Limited Space Available