Welcome to Moss Communications Moss Communications is a small, boutique publisher specializing in creating
inspiring yet pragmatic tools that improve the work life of everyone who works
in health care and those they touch. When health care professionals reflect on
what first attracted them to this most sacred work, their passion is reignited
and the workplace and patient care are transformed.
Vision
Moss Communications is committed to creating books and other products that
inspire, encourage reflection, and foster deeper human connection. We specialize
in addressing the heart and soul needs of healthcare professionals and those
they touch so profoundly every day.
Healing with Heart products
support a work climate that puts people first and embraces patient-centered
care. Authenticity, compassion, effective teamwork, and stellar leadership
are in the reflections in Healing with Heart: Inspirations for Health Care
Professionals.
Prayer: A Relationship without Words is
a gentle companion for caregivers, their patients and families and others
who, touched by the crisis seek solace and deeper meaning in their lives.
Now Available!
2011 AJN Book of the Year The Comfort Garden
The 2011 AJN Book of the Year, The Comfort Garden, by Laurie Barkin, RN, MS now is available for sale through Moss Communications' online store. The Comfort Garden is a truly unique memoir of a psychiatric nurse consultant's experience working on the surgical/trauma unit at San Francisco General Hospital. In rapid pace reading, the reader will gain entry into the jarring world of a trauma unit and get a glimpse of the emotional cost to caregivers who witness other people's pain and suffering.
As we begin to measure the impact of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma on health care professionals and the toll it exacts on professionals and the care they deliver, clinicians and administrators are using The Comfort Garden as a tool for training and healing.
Danielle Ofri MD, PhD
Editor-In-Chief of The Bellevue Literary Journal and a
Author of Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue and Medicine in Translation
Marie Manthey RN, MNA
President Emeritus of Creative Health Care Management and
Author of The Practice of Primary Nursing and from healthcare professionals around the country
Learn more about The Comfort Garden's account of Laurie Barkin's journey.
Order your copy today!. Retail price is $17.95 with discounts for larger orders.
Illness
and crisis have a way of distilling our lives down to the simplest of terms.
Whether believers or non-believers, we begin to seek answers, solace and deeper
meaning in our lives. Prayer: A Relationship without Words is the perfect
gift—for a caregiver, colleague, and friend or for your self. Filled with
inspiring words and pictures, this lovely companion offers compassionate support
on the journey through these desert times. It will be appreciated
as a life-long treasure and gentle guide, opening new doors with every reading.
Healing With Heart:
Inspirations for Health Care Professionals
American Journal of Nursing
2008 Book of the Year
Moss Communications is proud to announce that
Healing with Heart has been honored to receive the American Journal of Nursing's
2008 Book of the Year award in the Leadership and Management category.
Healing with Heart: Inspirations for Health Care
Professionals is the latest book by Martin Helldorfer and
Terri Moss now
available to health care professionals through the publishing house of Moss
Communications. This gift-quality, portable book has been lovingly and
thoughtfully prepared for health care professionals who are on the go and need a
quick, uplifting reminder of the importance, and yes, the sacredness of their
work.
"Healing
with Heart captures so beautifully
the essence of nursing in all its dimensions.
It is meant to be read by all those
who give from the heart."
If
you love Healing with Heart, the American Journal of Nursing’s Book of
the Year award-winning book, you will love Healing with Heart Wisdom Cards.
Each deck consists of a set of 24 cards containing the affirmations in
Healing with Heart. Healing with Heart Wisdom Cards are gift-quality
and portable, perfect for busy, on-the-go health care professionals. They are
beautifully packaged in an organza, pull-tie bag.
Use these Wisdom Cards to change the conversation at staff meetings, deepen
connections among colleagues, spark dialogue, reignite passion, inspire
employees and remind them of the importance of their work.