Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants & Other Advance Practice Clinicians
If you are looking for a supportive community to help sustain your spirit while providing compassionate, team-based care to your patients… Come join us!
Benefits of membership
The care of patients has truly become a “team sport,” and you are frequently the one who works most closely with patients. Your compassion and empathy builds their trust. You manage, educate, and comfort, giving of yourself to help them cope—standing in the gaps of a system that has become “driven” and impersonal. It can wear you down! Networking with colleagues in the St. John Neumann Guild can help you sustain your spirit while brainstorming system and attitudinal changes that are good for patients AND for those who care for them.
Faith & Fellowship
We stick together! We are an immunization against isolation and burnout in today's secular health care environments. We work, pray and play together through our Annual Picnic, St. Luke's Mass, learning,
collaborative online projects and community-based activities.
We are faithful to our vocations within health care and to the teachings of our One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Faith.
Education & Advocacy
The practice of medicine has become a "team sport." Guild members are able to network and learn together with Catholic colleagues within your own discipline or through interprofessional collaborations.
Individual mentoring relationships help clinicians develop confidence and skills that help them grow within their careers and tackle greater complexity within their work settings.
Our Guild sponsors workgroups focused on: celebrating and encouraging clinicians with young families; serving vulnerable populations; educating women about the care of their fertility; protecting patients in clinical research; and witnessing to our Catholic faith within the realm of health care policy.
Guiding the Future
We offer opportunities to mentor students in our professions-they are our hope for the future. We have a Speakers Bureau for students, so they can hear from clinicians with experience and/or expertise. We also have a small network of clinical preceptors who teach & supervise students during externships.
Our Guild also sponsors scholarships for health professional students to attend the annual CMA Bootcamp, a week-long conference featuring spiritual development, an immersion in Catholic bioethics, and opportunities for leadership, mentorship and networking.
Issues of Conscience
Through our partnership with the National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC), members have free access to the NCBC's online resources and individual consultation with a Catholic ethicist when needed. Free consultation with an attorney familiar with issues of moral and conscience rights in the healthcare workplace is available through the Alliance for Defending Freedom.
