Drawing on her many years as a nurse, mother and wife, Biley tenderly takes us on a personal journey of conscious dying as she supports her beloved nurse academic husband Fran. Diagnosed with cancer, Fran’s wish was to die mindfully – whatever the circumstances. Anna travels alongside using Caring Science Theory as her guide whilst trying to maintain ‘normalcy’ in the home for her two young sons. Painfully tender, joyous and heartbreaking, Anna offers an insight in what it’s like to consciously care for a loved one the way they wish to die – honouring the sacred covenant until the end. Biley skillfully guides the reader on a Caritas pilgrimage as she lives out Caring Science principals, digging deep to remember her life’s purpose, which resonates for us all.
The book offers important advice and new thinking on issues surrounding grief, death and dying, Caring Science, Human Caring Theory, the 10 Caritas Processes (r) Conscious Dying, Healthcare Systems, Nursing and Palliative Care.
READERSHIP This story will touch anyone experiencing grief or death of a loved one. Nurses, Chief Nurse Officers and Healthcare Professionals using Caring Science Theory. Conscious Dying Institutes and Hospice workers can use it as a guide for families and others as inspiration. Holistic Health Practitioners, Therapists and Mindfullness practitioners. Poetry - using the ‘cut up technique’ inspired by William Burroughs. Autoethnograghy.
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An important addition to the literature of Unitary Caring Science and Conscious Dying, Birds Hold Our Secrets explores the universal question of how do we, as nurses, nurse our own?
‘The sense of being open to unfolding moments was intense and miracles entered the space. Picture this, Fran on the floor and me crouched by his side. There was not a lot of room, so our son sat in the bathtub. Intuitively he watched and waited. As Fran, groaned in confusion and discomfort I experienced a deep remembering that the three of us had been there before, except it was me, moaning in childbirth and Fran was the comforter, the companion. With a flash of realization I knew that we had been through this and much more in many lifetimes and I knew that all would be well. In that moment, without explanation, our son moved to position himself by his dad’s head. As he meditated, Fran began to calm and started to come back to us.’
Anna Biley, Birds Hold our Secrets A Nurses Story of Grief and Remembering
A propos de l’auteur
Dr. Jean Watson is Distinguished Professor and Dean Emerita, University of Colorado Denver, College of Nursing Anschutz Medical Center campus, where she held the nation’s first endowed Chair in Caring Science for 16 years. She is founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing; past President of the National League for Nursing; founding member of International Association in Human Caring and International Caritas Consortium. She is Founder and Director of non-profit foundation, Watson Caring Science Institute.
Dr. Watson has earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in nursing and psychiatricmental health nursing and holds her Ph D in educational psychology and counseling. She is a widely published author and recipient of many awards and honors, including The Fetzer Institute Norman Cousins Award, in recognition of her commitment to developing, maintaining and exemplifying relationship-centered care practices; an international Kellogg Fellowship in Australia, a Fulbright Research Award in Sweden. The Hildebrand Center for Compassion in Medicine Award Notre Dame University; Academy Integrative Medicine and Healing Award for pioneering work in Caring Science; Japanese International Society of Caring and Peace Chair. She holds fifteen (15) Honorary Doctoral Degrees, including 12 International Honorary Doctorates (Sweden, United Kingdom, (2) Spain, British Colombia and Quebec, Canada, Japan, Turkey, Peru (3), and Columbia, South America).
Clinical nurses and academic programs throughout the world use her published works on the philosophy and theory of human caring and the art and science of caring in nursing. Dr. Watson’s caring philosophy is used to guide transformative models of caring and healing practices for hospitals, nurses and patients alike, in diverse settings worldwide.
At the University of Colorado, Dr. Watson held the title of Distinguished Professor of Nursing; the highest honor accorded its faculty for scholarly work. In 1999 she assumed the Murchinson-Scoville Chair in Caring Science, the nation’s first endowed chair in Caring Science, based at the University of Colorado Denver & Anschutz Medical Center.
As author/co-author of over 30 books on caring, her latest books range from empirical measurements and international research on caring, to new postmodern philosophies of caring and healing, philosophy and science of caring and caring science as sacred science, global advance in Caring Literacy. Her books have received the American Journal of Nursing’s ‘Book of the Year’ award and seek to bridge paradigms as well as point toward transformative models for this 21st century. In October, 2013 Dr. Watson was inducted as a Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing, its highest honor.
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