In an effort to transform South Sacramento Kaiser Permanente one heart, one caregiver at a time, the Caring Council developed a Caritas in Action Coaching team. The purpose of this Caritas on the Move team is to inspire caring councils to take the Caritas in Action material and train front line staff during huddle messages, staff meanings, skills day and any other authentic teaching opportunities.

1. Kaiser Permanente, Northern California
Caritas Consortium 2013
Caritas on the Move – Creating Caritas Champions
Caritas in Action
How Caring Science informs and inspires KP caregivers and affirms our commitment to provide our
patients and their families exceptional care

2. Caritas on the Move – Creating Caritas Champions
Intent to Contribute Statement:
In 2010 Kaiser South Sacramento Medical Center adopted Caring Science as the foundation of our
care experience. The decision was made to acknowledge that each nurse and nurse leader have the
power to affect the changes needed to realize our mission to provide high-quality, affordable
health care services, and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve. In
an effort to transform South Sacramento Kaiser Permanente one heart, one caregiver at a time, the
Caring Council developed a Caritas in Action Coaching team to inspire other Caring Council’s to
move the work of Caring Science forward in order to get it to the front line staff. Significance:
Caregivers need tools to prepare them to be authentically present, as they are deeply affected by
stressful situations at work. Caritas on the move employs 2 main Caritas processes, Process #7:
Engaging in genuine teaching-learning experience that attends to unity of being and subjective
meaning—attempting to stay within the others frame of reference and Caritas Process #4:
Developing and sustaining a helping-trusting Caring Relationship. The purpose of the Caritas on the
Move team is to inspire caring councils to take the Caritas in Action material and train front line
staff during huddle messages, staff meanings, skills day and any other authentic teaching
opportunities.
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3. Caritas on the Move – Creating Caritas Champions
…Continued
While having these Caritas encounters on the units the coaching team themselves will be building
helping trusting relationships of support for the work of Caring Sciences. Setting and Participants:
The project will take place throughout all of PCS and any other department that wants to learn
more about Caring Sciences. The way that this work aligns with caring for Self is the support that
Caring councils need in order to be empowered to move the work forward and the relationships
that will be built, Caring for Patients as the information is shared, we train staff to be the work
verses just doing the work, Caring for the Care-giver team we see that the teams are empowered
and given the training tools to be successful, and Caring for the Medical Center-all of Patient Care
services will be in alignment with the vision of Caring Science for Kaiser Permanente.
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4. Caritas on the Move – Creating Caritas Champions
Inspired Contributor(s) 1 :
 Charlene Johnson
 Ellen R. Martin
 Kay Severs
-----Service Area: South Sacramento
Medical Center: SSC
Affiliation: PCS
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Year Shared: 2013
Venue: Caritas Consortium
Format: Poster, PowerPoint
ID #: W06
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Keyword TAGs:
Identifier
 Consortium2013-July, So.
Sacramento, Podium, Poster,
Patient Care Services
 Caritas in Action, Education &
Staff Dev, Culture, Caritas
Leadership, Team
Descriptor
 Caritas Consciousness

5. Caritas on the Move – Creating Caritas Champions
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7. Without an awakening and awareness of
our very Being, our Presence, our
Intentionality, and
consciousness AS the field of environment,
we can actually be destructive to self and
others.
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8. What we acknowledge…
Each nurse and nurse leader have the power to
affect the changes needed to realize our
mission to provide high-quality, affordable
health care services, and to improve the
health of the members and the communities
we serve.
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9. Introduction: CARITAS IN ACTION
Inspired Leadership
How Caring Science informs and inspires the
nursing process and affirms the commitments
of Kaiser Permanente Nurses to provide our
patients and their families exceptional care.
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10. Introduction (con’t)
• 2010: Kaiser SSC Medical Center adopted Jean
Watson’s Theory of Caring Science as the
foundation for our care experience.
• 2011-2012: The Leading with Care modules
were introduced to leadership/management
team.
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11. Introduction (con’t)
In December of 2012 Region began to
innovatively share the “Caritas in Action” roll
out with PCS, which allowed us to imbed Caritas
into our daily practice by training the front line
staff through small 15-20 minutes sessions,
huddles, one on one conversations, etc.
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12. We are fostering four key relationships as we reach out:
• Caring for Self: revitalize our identity as caregivers
• Caring for Caregiver team: create a foundation for
collaborative, patient centered caring and healing
• Caring for Patients and Family: Honor the unique
perspectives of our patients and their families
• Caring for Communities we serve: Advocate and
promote total health within our communities that
we serve
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13. Caritas on the Move employs two main Caritas processes:
• Caritas Process 7: Engaging in genuine
teaching-learning experience that attends to
unity of being and subjective meaning—
attempting to stay within the others frame of
reference
• Caritas Process 4: Developing and sustaining
helping trusting Caring Relationships.
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14. Purpose:
1. To inspire/encourage caring council
members to feel comfortable enough to take
the material and train front line staff during
huddle messages, staff meetings, skills day
and any other teaching opportunities.
2. To develop and sustain a helping-trusting
caring relationship by connecting with the
Caring Council members, managers,
departments or ANYONE who wants to
infuse the Science of Caring in their work
and life.
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15. Caritas on the Move is working to inspire…
• Perinatal Services
• Peri-op services, ASU, PACU
• GI
• Inpatient medsurg nursing units
• Volunteers—learned hand massage for pilot
project
• The SSC Caring Council—demonstrations
• Everyone! (see our booth for the medical
centers nurses week presentations)
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16. Caritas on the Move

17. We would like to leave you with this:
• Caring Science is not about 1 or 2 people, its
about all of us being the work.
• Caring Science is about the tapestry of seeing
every thing that we do through the eyes of
caring science.
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