Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards Scholarship Grant to the Schwartz Center and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for Compassion Scholars Program
The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, a national leader in the movement to strengthen and sustain the human connection at the heart of healthcare, and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), the national voice for baccalaureate and graduate nursing education, today announced that they have received a $33,000 grant from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation to develop a Compassion Scholars Program.
The first Compassion Scholars Program will be held in conjunction with the inaugural Compassion in Action Healthcare Conference (CiA) in Boston from June 25-27. The program is designed to give select nursing and medical students exposure to strategies, skills and programs that are being successfully implemented in settings they are likely to encounter in the field. With the CiA conference focused on experienced healthcare professionals sharing best practices that will address workforce burnout and ways to further strengthen patient-family engagement and the quality of compassionate care in health systems, this conference is an ideal forum for this program...