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Caritas Consortium 2013

A Bouquet of Wisdom: Bundling Caring Actions

Intent to Contribute Statement: Our Caritas Connection team has been working with Denise Laws, RN, MSN, who is completing her

doctoral degree in executive leading for nursing practice at USF. Denise presented a conceptual

idea to out team to work on bundling caring behaviors in order to bring Jean Watson's Caring

Science Theory alive at the bedside. Our team has been brainstorming caring behaviors related to

three constructs: intentionality, the transpersonal caring relationship and human dignity. We are

then taking the caring behaviors and bundling them as you would for HAP, or any other bundle. We

will then share the key behaviors with staff - we like to call them "pearls". We will do this through

video so that managers can share during work time and educate staff in small snippets of time the

importance of bringing caring behaviors/pearls to the bedside. We are also weaving the caring

pearls/behaviors into workflows - for example, we will weave caring pearls into the respiratory

therapy workflow of giving a breathing treatment, or a pct feeding or bathing a patient, or an RN

assessing a patient's pain. Finally, we will be weaving the caring behaviors/pearls into the ICARE

authentic hourly rounding tool, bringing the caring concepts to the authentic hourly rounding

experience. We are excited to share this project as a podium presentation and believe it will have

widespread importance.

A Bouquet of Wisdom: Bundling Caring Actions

A Bouquet of Wisdom: Bundling Caring Actions

Inspired Contributor(s) 1 : Denise Laws Donna Lamke Emilie Smith

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Service Area: Marin/ Sonoma

Medical Center: SRO

Affiliation: PCS

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Year Shared: 2013

Venue: Caritas Consortium

Format: PowerPoint, Video (Separate Files)

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1 Names as listed in Lotus Notes, otherwise personal e-mails indicated

Kaiser Santa Rosa’s Caritas Connection Committee Brings Jean Watson’s Caring

Science Theory to life!!

Key Caring Actions Identified• Intentionality

• The Transpersonal-Caring Relationship• Human Dignity

Our Story

• Bundling Caring Actions

Three Main Constructs

1. Intentionality

2. The Transpersonal-Caring Relationship

3. Human Dignity

See separate video upload

Intentionality Video

Kaiser Permanente Hospital, Santa Rosa Announces September will be

highlighted as “Caring Science Month”

Next Steps

Thank You

• How will you incorporate key caring actions into your practice?