11th Annual Nightingale Moment, May 12, 2010 at 12noon

The American Holistic Nurses Association  invites you to Join Nurses Around the World to celebrate the    11th Annual   NIGHTINGALE MOMENT    May 12, 2010  Noon (local time)   Every Nurse around the world is invited to pause, take a moment of silence or create a healing ceremony or ritual in celebration and dedication to the heart and spirit of nursing.   We invite you and your colleagues to:   Honor Florence Nightingale and her legacy to modern nursing. Honor the strength and wisdom of our nursing mission. Reconnect with the fire and the soul, the sense of calling in nursing.  Acknowledge the interconnections and oneness of nurses in the personal, political, social, and scientific domains. Carry the vision of caring and healing into the future. Share Nightingale's legacy with the larger community.      *********************************************** For more information about the Nightingale Moment and to print out fliers for your organization and for the "Blessing of the Hands"  visit the AHNA website:  www.ahna.org

Save the Date:  November 20, 2010   "Nutrition:   What Nurses Bring to the Table"    Join National Speaker and Author Pamela McDonald for a one day conference on the health and healing effects of nutrition.   Place:  Indiana University Southeast     --more details to follow--                           Visit Pam's website for more information www.apoegenediet.com   June 2-5, 2011  AHNA National Conference - Louisville, KY  31st Annual American Holistic Nurses Association   Conference    Marriott Downtown -- Louisville, KY    June 2-5, 2011     "Holistic Nursing:  Tending to the Sacred Flow of Life"     Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.    In the early 1980's Dr. Borysenko co-founded a Mind/Body clinic with Dr. Benson and Dr. Ilan Kutz, became licensed as a psychologist, and was appointed instructor in medicine at the Harvard Medical School. Her years of clinical experience and research culminated in the 1987 publication of the New York Times best seller, Minding the Body, Mending the Mind, which sold over 400,000 copies. The 20th anniversary edition, newly revised, was published in 2007. Author or co-author of 13 other books and numerous audio and video programs, including the Public Television special Inner Peace for Busy People, she is the Founding Partner of Mind/Body Health Sciences, LLC located in Boulder, Colorado and the Director of The Claritas Institute Interspiritual Mentor Training Program. For More Information:  www.joanborysenko.com      ~~~Along with Dr. Kitty Ernst and Dr. Kay Sandor   "Kitty" will be addressing issues of the journey at the beginning of life and Kay will speak as one who walks with  those at the end of life~~~     Eunice (Kitty) Ernst, RN, CNM, MPH, DSc (hon) - Mary Breckinridge Chair of Midwifery  Dr. Ernst is the only endowed Chair of Midwifery in the United States. She is a certified nurse-midwife graduate of Kentucky's Frontier School of Midwifery with a master's degree in public health. A renowned visionary in the field of midwifery, Kitty has pioneered pregnancy and birth care advances for more than 40 years.               Kay Sandor, Ph.D., RN, LPC, AHN-BC Dr. Sandor is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch, School of Nursing at Galveston and An Associate Member of the Institute for the Medical Humanities.  Dr. Sandor is a licensed professional counselor and psychotherapist and is a certified advanced practice holistic nurse.  She has completed the End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) training, a project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to train faculty and practitioners in Palliative Care.  Her specialty as a nurse psychotherapist is grief and loss.