Practice Grant: Implementing Institutional Self-Care Award
Health and Medicine
Scholarship Description
This grant award provides financial support to initiate and integrate a self-care program within an institution. The intent is to help institutions promote and encourage diverse models of Holistic Nursing activities focused on self-care; the models are designed to provide nurses an opportunity to practice Holistic Nursing and extend their self-care influence and practices to other nurses and/or patients and families. The grant amount is $3,000.
Criteria:
To provide the initial financial support for the initiation of self-care activities to promote diverse models of Holistic Nursing that will be integrated into the institution.
A. Program must:
1. Strengthen the recognition and support for holistic principles through the implementation of specific ongoing holistic well-being activities
2. Develop opportunities for nurses to move deeper into the Holistic Nursing specialty by extending their influence and practices to other nurses and/or patients and families
3. Develop opportunities for Holistic Nurses to extend their influence by supporting colleagues and others in a holistic well-being activity
4. Look at well-being from a fresh holistic perspective that fits your culture (i.e. labyrinth, meditation room/s, laughter yoga, aromatherapy, self-reflection garden, roaming anti-stress minstrels, etc.)
B. Grant Director must:
1. Be Holistic Nursing certified (HN-BC, HNB-BC, AHN-BC)
2. Be an active AHNA member
3. Be currently employed within the institution where the program will be implemented
4. Agree to present the grant implementation activities summary/outline in a Beginnings magazine article and/or present poster/workshop at the annual AHNA conference
C. One letter of support must be submitted from an Institutional Executive showing intent and support that includes how this well-being activity fits into the institutional mission and philosophy, how this program will be integrated moving forward, and how the activity will be sustained upon completion of the grant.
Criteria:
To provide the initial financial support for the initiation of self-care activities to promote diverse models of Holistic Nursing that will be integrated into the institution.
A. Program must:
1. Strengthen the recognition and support for holistic principles through the implementation of specific ongoing holistic well-being activities
2. Develop opportunities for nurses to move deeper into the Holistic Nursing specialty by extending their influence and practices to other nurses and/or patients and families
3. Develop opportunities for Holistic Nurses to extend their influence by supporting colleagues and others in a holistic well-being activity
4. Look at well-being from a fresh holistic perspective that fits your culture (i.e. labyrinth, meditation room/s, laughter yoga, aromatherapy, self-reflection garden, roaming anti-stress minstrels, etc.)
B. Grant Director must:
1. Be Holistic Nursing certified (HN-BC, HNB-BC, AHN-BC)
2. Be an active AHNA member
3. Be currently employed within the institution where the program will be implemented
4. Agree to present the grant implementation activities summary/outline in a Beginnings magazine article and/or present poster/workshop at the annual AHNA conference
C. One letter of support must be submitted from an Institutional Executive showing intent and support that includes how this well-being activity fits into the institutional mission and philosophy, how this program will be integrated moving forward, and how the activity will be sustained upon completion of the grant.
Health and Medicine
