{"id":15881,"date":"2012-08-03T09:11:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T15:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hs.boisestate.edu\/?p=15881"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:46:12","slug":"nursing-students-and-faculty-experience-holistic-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/nursing\/2012\/08\/03\/nursing-students-and-faculty-experience-holistic-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing Students and Faculty Experience Holistic Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium wp-image-15891\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/healthsciences\/files\/2012\/08\/AHNA-Conference.jpg\" alt=\"Left to right: Julie Carr, Robin Callahan, Kelly Smith, and Marty Downey\" class=\"wp-image-15891\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Marty Downey<\/strong>, faculty in the School of Nursing, and three nursing students, <strong>Julie Carr<\/strong> BS, RN, graduate student, <strong>Kelly Smith<\/strong> and <strong>Robin Callahan<\/strong>, both senior undergraduate students, attended the American Holistic Nurses&#8217; Association (AHNA) 2012 Annual conference, June 12-16 in Snowbird, Utah. Boise State alumni, Kamron Keep, BS, RN, also attended the conference as the St Luke&#8217;s Health System Integrative Medicine Coordinator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As one of the conference planners, Downey wrote an editorial in the April 2012 AHNA publication &#8220;Beginnings&#8221; about the conference noting the keynote speakers, Susan Gordon, award-winning author and journalist of nursing related books and publications such as Nursing Against All Odds &nbsp;and Michael Bleich, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, published author, dean of Oregon Health and Science University and member of the Institute of &nbsp;Medicine committee on the Future of Nursing initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smith and Downey presented a poster on \u201cPromoting Holistic Change Early in the Learning Process,\u201d which was co-authored by Elisha Copperman, a fifth semester nursing student who was unable to attend the conference.&nbsp;Downey also helped present a research poster \u201cEffect of Healing Touch on Post Surgical Adult Outpatients,\u201d as part of her role on the St Luke&#8217;s Wood River Research Fellowship team, which authored the poster. The Wood River Research Fellowship team includes Downey, Joan Anderson RN, HTPA,&nbsp; Mary Kay Foley PT, GCFP, CHTP, Laurie Mallea RN, HTPA, and Karen Morrison, RN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All the Boise State attendees found it exciting to be present at the conference with their fellow Idaho holistic practitioners and nursing students as well as the many other nationally recognized holistic nurses. The nursing students earned their way to the conference by &nbsp;assisting at the conference, including passing out nursing pins for the pinning ceremony, helping people find their way around, and offering relief to the AHNA vending table workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carr describes the conference as \u201ca breath of fresh air\u201d that \u201cendeavored to minister to the whole person,\u201d in line with the goal of holistic nursing practice. The attendees enjoyed the beauty of the mountains and the serenity of nature and enjoyed early morning classes geared to enhancing energy and health. Carr, who is also a lecturer for the School of Nursing, states \u201cThrough this conference experience (I say &#8216;experience&#8217; because the holistic nature of the conference was infused into every aspect of the conference) I was able to gain personal insight as well as experiential knowledge. &nbsp;The understanding acquired from this holistic conference will enhance my teaching methods as well as my patient\/student interactions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marty Downey, faculty in the School of Nursing, and three nursing students, Julie Carr BS,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4072,4071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cohs-news","category-son-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.2 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - 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