CoNAH Humanics & Arnold P. Gold Partner’s Council
What is Humanics ?
In healthcare education, humanics involves preparing students to become highly capable, ethically grounded, technologically fluent, and deeply human professionals. We develop our curriculum to enhance their ability to combine science, skill, judgment, compassion, and respect for human dignity in every future interaction with patients, families, communities, and colleagues.
In CoNAH, humanics is embedded throughout our curriculum to prepare students to use knowledge, technology, data, and professional skill in ways that preserve human dignity, deepen trust, and improve lives. Technology may change how healthcare is delivered, but humanics ensures we never forget why healthcare exists in the first place: to serve people.
Gold Partner’s Council
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation champions humanism in healthcare, defined as clinically excellent care that is kind, safe, and trustworthy. In 2025, The FDU College of Nursing and Allied Health (CoNAH) was an inaugural member of the Gold Partners Council, a group of leading institutions that support humanism in healthcare. CoNAH is now recognized among the Founding Nursing Members with special accesses to help us shape nursing and other healthcare programs. CoNAH students can now participate in these nationally recognized programs, which include:
- Tell Me More® communications trainings to strengthen patient connections
- Patient Priorities Care programs
- Nursing Oath Ceremony
Gold Humanism Resource Library
The Gold Resource Library offers collections of databases, videos, courses, curriculum materials, best practices, books, podcasts, links to related organizations, and more to help foster the human connection in healthcare. CoNAH students, staff, and faculty engage with the following resources, among others:
Humanism Courses
Register for free open online courses on humanism and other topics.
Patient Perspectives
Initiatives that amplify the voices of patients and their caregivers as partners in their care.
For Patients and Caregivers
Resources to help patients and caregivers be active partners and develop a strong relationship with clinicians based on trust, respect, and honesty.
Reading Corner
Gold Reading Lists, book reviews, Gold Foundation’s Bookshop.org site.
Climate and Health
Websites, toolkits, and articles that highlight the intersection between climate change and health.
Practical Applications of Humanism
Database of practical applications of humanism, GHHS chapter initiatives, and more.
Research on Humanism
Database of peer-reviewed articles, Research Roundup Newsletter, and more.
Clinician Wellbeing
Gold Wellness Workshops, suicide prevention resources, practical ideas, data points, and more.
Organizations Centered on Humanistic Healthcare
Organizations and initiatives that promote trusting clinical relationships, offer communication tools, and promote systems change.
Humanics & Experiential Learning
Healthcare has always required scientific knowledge, but the future will require something more: professionals who can interpret information, communicate with empathy, navigate complexity, and make ethical decisions in situations where there is rarely a perfect answer. Humanics is about preparing students for that reality.
To prepare students to use knowledge, technology, data, and professional skill in ways that preserve human dignity, deepen trust, and improve lives, we deliberately seek out experiences for student in which they need to integrate technical expertise, data literacy, and human understanding.
CoNAH’s experiential learning activities are guided by two measurable humanics-centered goals:
- To prepare and inspire future care providers/emerging leaders to keep human dignity, compassion, and ethical judgment at the center of care, education and/or advocacy in technology-rich environments (“To honor the care and advocacy of humans even when challenged by a lens of technology”); and
- To prepare and inspire future care providers and emerging leaders to use technology intentionally to strengthen communication, safety, learning, and access (“To use technology intentionally to enable the human experience”).
