Teresa M. Buchanan, MBA, RN, has held a variety of educational, managerial, and leadership positions, with a particular focus on program development and project management in health care settings. She has most recently supported the Nursing Integrative Care/Caring and Healing Modalities Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, as a project manager and certified HeartMath trainer.

Patricia M. Reilly, MSN, RN, was most recently the director of Nursing Integrative Care/Caring and Healing Modalities at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. She has held a variety of leadership positions in critical care and perioperative nursing. Her current interests lie in developing a caring healing environment for both patients and health care providers. She is certified in advanced hypnotherapy and therapeutic touch and is a Reiki master and certified HeartMath trainer.

Carol Vafides, MAc, Lic Ac, has a master's degree in acupuncture from the New England School of Acupuncture. She is a per-diem acupuncturist in the Nursing Integrative Care/Caring and Healing Modalities Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Her treatment focus has been to care for staff using a community style acupuncture to help mitigate stress. She developed and has been teaching Acupressure level 1 and level 2 classes for nurses. Classes were designed to help manage patient symptoms and for self-care. She has been in private practice since 1994.

Patricia Dykes, PhD, MA, RN, FAAN, FACMI, is a senior nurse scientist and program director for research in the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice and the Center for Nursing Excellence at Brigham and Women's Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr Dykes is the author of 2 books and more than 80 peer-reviewed publications and has presented her work nationally and internationally. She is a member of the National Institutes of Health Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics Study Section, Center for Scientific Review, and a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the American College of Medical Informatics.

The authors have disclosed that they have no significant relationships with, or financial interest in, any commercial companies pertaining to this article.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Teresa M. Buchanan, MBA, RN, Nursing Caring & Healing Modalities, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 9 Overlook Ave, Gloucester, MA 01930 ([email protected]).