Nurturing the Nurse! Essential Care!

While there are many complex factors in the global nursing shortage, one key factor is burn-out from the stresses of this demanding career. There is an essential need for nurses to be NURTURED—supported and sustained in their work— so that they can continue their major caring contribution to society worldwide.

Begun in 2009 in New York City, as Donna Karan’s Urban Zen Center “Nurturing the Nurse” is an ongoing collaborative project — co-founded by NIGH’s team, Earthrose and several of our Advisors and friends — to address this need in a unique way. “Nurturing the Nurse’ provides empowering experiences in inspired settings — focused on the support we need to bring to each other and the essential ‘self-care’ that all of us need to bring to ourselves.

Highlights include: reconnecting to the meaning and purpose of the nursing profession and exploring innovative holistic nursing practices to facilitate the inner mechanisms of healing and nurture the mind, body and spirit. Participants enjoy experiential learning, using imagery, mindfulness practice, energy healing, yoga and movement, hand massage, and nutritionally nurturing meals. They consistently express a deepened 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. Nursing re-licensure credits are available in flexible ways.