September 2020 We continue to highlight our Caritas Colleagues and share their contribution and commitment to Caring Science. This month we are celebrating: Cheryl T. Handy MN, RN, NE-BC, Caritas …
Celebrating Caritas Colleague Chris Griffin
August 2020 We continue to highlight our Caritas Colleagues and share their contribution and commitment to Caring Science. This month we are celebrating: Chris Griffin PhD, RN, NPD-BC, CPN, Caritas …
Caritas Healing Connections
April 18, 2026 | Agenda & Theme We invite you to join us monthly for a chance to return to your Caritas Community to share and reconnect.The Art of Healing …
Celebrating Caritas Colleague Erika Caballero Muñoz
June 2020 We continue to highlight our Caritas Colleagues and share their contribution and commitment to Caring Science. This month we are celebrating: Erika Caballero Muñoz, RN, CNM, MA, & …
Communitas in Action! Applying Caring Science to Preschool
The following is an interview with Goly Casey, Head of Early Bird Preschool in San Mateo, CA (in picture above standing on left). She is also the co-owner of a start-up …
Celebrating Caritas Colleague Roberta Christopher
May 2020 We continue to highlight our Caritas Colleagues and share their contribution and commitment to Caring Science. This month we are celebrating: Roberta Christopher, EdD, MSN, APRN, NE-BC, CAIF, …
Nurses’ Global Coherence 2020
Join us in a Virtual Worldwide Meditation May 12, 2020 @ 12:00 NOON Local Time The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated 2020 as the ‘Year of the Nurse & …
Connecting Without Touch
In the practice of Caring Science and the theory of Caritas, you are the energetic field and the agent of human-to-human (transpersonal) connection. You touch each other in silence and …
Celebrating Caritas Colleague Lynne Wagner
April 2020 We continue to highlight our Caritas Colleagues and share their contribution and commitment to Caring Science. This month we are celebrating: A. Lynne Wagner, EdD, MSN, RN, FACCE, …
Celebrating Caritas Colleague Joseph Giovannoni
March 2020 We continue to highlight our Caritas Colleagues and share their contribution and commitment to Caring Science. This month we are celebrating: Joseph Giovannoni, DNP, APRN-Rx, PMHCNS-BC, WCSI Post Doc …
Sacred Circle of Life & Death
During this time of the coronoavius, it is a time to remind ourselves to integrate death back into the normalcy of the sacred circle of life and death and to …
Celebrating our Long-Standing Caritas Colleague Jan Anderson
February 2020 This year we will be highlighting a Caritas Colleague and share their contribution and commitment to Caring Science. This month we are celebrating: Jan Anderson, EdD, MSN, RN, …
Introducing Caritas Colleague Dr. Holly Wei
January 2020 This year we will be highlighting a Caritas Colleague and share their contribution and commitment to Caring Science. This month we are celebrating: Holly Wei, PhD, RN, CPN, …
Fireside Chat with Jean Watson and Joan Vitello on Holistic Nursing
The 7th Massachusetts Regional Caring Science Consortium was held at the UMass Worcester Medical School and sponsored by the UMass Worcester Graduate School of Nursing on November 5, 2019. The …
First Academic System Announced as a National Watson Caring Science Academic Affiliate™
December 2018 — Boulder, CO – Watson Caring Science Institute (WCSI) and Dr. Jean Watson are proud to announce The College of New Rochelle (CNR), New York, has been named …
Artist creates ‘visual notes’ at our Arts Health & Humanity Conference
November 2018, Brighton UK – Award winning artist and illustrator Aaron Blecha joined us for our two day WCSI Arts Health & Humanity Conference and created ‘visual notes’ of all …
Lucile Packard Stanford Children’s Hospital, Recognized as a National Watson Caring Science Affiliate System™
September 2018 Boulder, CO – Watson Caring Science Institute (WCSI) and Dr. Jean Watson are proud to announce the Lucile Packard Stanford Children’s Hospital (LPSCH), California, has been named a …
Lee honored for compassionate care
Kyla Lee, MD, FACP, Gundersen Palliative Care, Hospice and Internal Medicine, recently received the prestigious Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation after a nomination …
#ResearchersMatter: Queer Birthing Stories
Dr. Lisa Goldberg, an associate professor in the School of Nursing at Dalhousie University and Caritas Coach® discusses her research project “Birthing Relationships and Rural Health Practices: The Experiences of …
The importance of Caring Science in healthcare and beyond
Kathleen Sitzman, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN presents her recent Caring Science service work at UMA (Universidad Maria Auxiliadora) in Lima, Peru, June 2018. Kathleen is a Professor at East Carolina …
Research Study for Caritas Coaches®, Nurse Leaders & Scholars
WCSI Caritas Coaches®, Nurse Leaders and Scholars, please consider participating in the research study, The relationship between the practice environment (patient experience/patient quality outcomes and nurse satisfaction) in healthcare organizations …
WCSI Global Human Caring – Arts Health Humanity
Save the date! October 12-14, 2018 with optional champagne reception October 11th WCSI in Brighton, UK THE CONFERENCE WCSI is working with European partners, local artists and influencers to offer a dynamic …
Watson Rooms – a sanctuary for busy hospital staff
Imagine opening a door within a bustling hospital unit, labelled ‘staff only, one person at a time.’ Upon entering, you encounter soft lighting, a massage chair, soothing scents, kinetic sand, …
Reflection on Nursing Science
The following reflection was written by Shelly Kolb, who is currently enrolled in the innagural cohort at the Sacramento campus for the RN-TO-BSN program at Samuel Merritt University. She is …
Save the Date & Call For Abstracts — 6th Annual Middle Eastern Nurses Conference
July 25, 2017 Save the Date & Call for Abstracts February 1-3, 2018 Golden Tulip Hotel Aqaba, Jordan The Sixth Annual Nurses in the Middle East, Partners in Caring Science …
Caritas Coach Education Program® (CCEP 2.0)
Dr .Watson and Watson Caring Science Institute (WCSI) Board of Directors are pleased to announce the continuation of the Caritas Coach Education Program® (CCEP 2.0). As the program transitions back …
John Matthew Kertland V — A Celebration of Life
by Grissel Hernandez, WCSI Volunteer Faculty Associate John Matthew Kertland V, 53, died unexpectedly at home on June 28, 2017 exactly two days after admitting in writing he needed to …
Huerto Comunitario Educativo: Conectando cuidados con la tierra y un corazón verde
“Our community garden of education in the city of the Serene in Chile. It is a ceremony with the cosmo vision of our native people diaguita. With ecological concepts of …
Exploring the Expansiveness of Caritas Literacy
November 11, 2016 Caritas Consciousness Webinar Series — Exploring the Expansiveness of Caritas Literacy We warmly invite you to join us on Thursday, December 15th for a 30-minute webinar Caring …
Free Online Course — Healing with the Arts
November 10, 2016 Free 6 week online course offered on the University of Florida Coursera platform using visual arts, music, dance and word to heal yourself, others, community and the …
8th Annual National Nursing Research Symposium at Stanford
Creating a Healing Environment: From Designing Space to Delivering Care November 9, 2016 This symposium provides an excellent opportunity to showcase your research, evidence-based practice project or quality improvement project …
When Unconditional Compassion and Kindness Is Life-Giving
February 2016 by Susan Mazer
A Clinical Practice Committed to Art
November 2015 Follow the journey of creating a “Caritas” based arts program using concepts and doctrine of nurse theorist Dr. Jean Watson. Patty Magee, RN Baptist Health
A COURSE IN CARING
July 2015 Nursing course informs international audience about science of care. East Carolina University nursing professor Kathleen Sitzman (and WCSI Volunteer CCEP Faculty) was lead instructor for the first Massive …
Celebrating Kaiser Permanente Nurses
July 2015 The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing just released a study showing that KP nurses are key to providing the highest level of quality care. This validates what …
Nurses at UMA seminar told nursing must get back to caring
November 2014 CentralMaine.com, Kennebec Journal
Massachusetts Regional Caring Science Consortium Celebrates First Anniversary
September 2014 The article address the celebration of the first year of the Massachusetts Regional Caring Science Consortium and an invitation for nurses to join the conversation. Published in “ANA Massachusetts” Report on …
Kaiser Permanente – Northern California, Caritas in Action Campaign
August 2014 WCSI Affiliate Kaiser Permanente – Northern California present three short videos from their 6th Caritas in Action campaign. In the videos, caregivers representing various multi-disciplinary perspectives share their thoughts on what it …
Enfermería debe atender cuerpo, alma y espíritu
March 2014 First International Academic – Educational Caring Science Affiliate WCSI, Chihuahua, Mexico
Anybody Need a Hug? They’re Free!
December 2012 Nebraska Methodist College