‘Treat Yourself to
‘Nurturing the Nurse’ in 2012!’

September 10th-12th, 2012 at Harmony Hill Retreat Center

You are invited to join us for the awesome opportunity to participate in the 2012 “Nurturing the Nurse” Retreat Workshop and earn up to 16 CNEs of re-licensure credits.

Created to take full advantage of the inspired ‘Harmony Hill’ setting on the Hood Canal in southwestern Washington State — this Retreat Workshop will provide you many, many NURTURING opportunities!

Highlights include:

• Reconnecting to the meaning and purpose of the nursing profession.
  
  
• Exploring innovative holistic nursing practices to facilitate the inner mechanisms of healing and nurturing the mind, body and spirit.
  
  
• Enjoying experiential learning, using imagery, mindfulness practice, energy healing, yoga and movement, aroma therapy and essential oils, and nutritionally nurturing meals.
  
  
• Deepening awareness and a greater personal sense of well being.
  
  
• The program also provides clinical skills and tools for nurses to become more effective in their work as educators, clinicians, coaches and guides in diverse healthcare settings including: home care, hospice, hospitals, community health, as educators, and in private practice. Up to 16 nursing re-licensure credits are available.
  
  
  

Register for the 2012 Retreat Workshop September 10-12 

Download the 2012 Retreat Workshop flier

Scan the gorgeous facilities where ‘Nurturing the Nurse’ convenes 

Nurture yourself with views of these gardens & labyrinths 

Read more about the ‘Nurturing the Nurse’ experience 

Learn more about the global nursing shortage

See our ongoing ‘Nurturing the Nurse’ story

Dr. Louise Selanders at Michigan State University. Photo from her archives.

Nightingale Historian Joins
NIGH Board of Directors

The growing grassroots-to-global NIGH team heartily welcomes Nightingale historian Dr. Louise Selanders, EdD, RN, FAAN to officially join the NIGH USA Board! Dr. Selanders is internationally-recognized nurse historian who passionately believes that the history of nursing offers answers to current and future issues of nursing education, practice and research. She has sought to accurately identify the key contributions of Florence Nightingale in the areas of nursing theory, leadership and philosophical development of the profession. Dr. Selanders also gives lectures on these respective and other related topics. Most recently, she has co-authored the award winning volume titled Florence Nightingale Today: Healing, Leadership, Global Action (2005) which details how the solutions identified and implemented by Nightingale, in her time, can be effective in resolving current issues such as global health, managed care and the nursing shortage. This volume was selected as the 2005 ‘American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year.’ Dr. Selanders is a full professor at the College of Nursing at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, where she is the Director of the Master's Program. She offers a challenging annual study abroad program each summer in London which both identifies the origins of modern nursing and compares and contrasts the current status of nursing in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Encore! NIGH Co-Sponsors Concert Featuring Shun-Yang Lee & the UN MDGs

This performance was a highlight of the "Raise Your Voice" Concert convened at the Lincoln Center Kaplan Penthouse in New York City. It features the artistry of Shun-Yang Lee, then an award-winning student pianist at the Bard Conservatory of Music — playing Andante, by Johannes Brahms.

Timed on the eve of the United Nations MDGs Summit in September, 2010, this Concert raised awareness about the deep connections between all eight UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the core Goals of Child & Maternal Health, MDGs 4 & 5. This video demonstrates how the Concert also shared a wide-screen photo-journalism series depicting these connections. Many of the photos and texts in this series have later been included in the new NIGH video, “Daring, Caring & Sharing.”
Take One Minute to learn more.

This Concert was Co-Sponsored by CoNGO, the Congress of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations and by the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH), one of the Founders of the 2010 International Year of the Nurse / Florence Nightingale Centennial, dedicated to advocating for the achievement of all eight UN MDGs.