Nurse theory and holistic care

Holistic nursing is a practice of nursing that focuses on healing the whole person. This practice recognizes that a person is not simply his or her illness. Holistic healing addresses the interconnectedness of the mind, body, spirit, social/cultural, emotions, relationships, context, and environment. All of these aspects combine to create the person, so in order to heal the person, the holistic nurse looks at all aspects and how they can affect the patient&#;s health.

The field combines nursing knowledge, theory, intuition, and experience as a guide for building a relationship with the patient to increase healing and promote health. Holistic nurses often integrate alternative medicine and practices into their nursing care. These practices address the patient&#;s physical needs, as well as their psychological and spiritual needs. Holistic nursing doesn&#;t try to question the validity of traditional medicine practices. Instead, it tries to complement and broaden them to better help the patient during his or her recovery.

Nurses use their own experiences as a foundation for their care, integrating the patient&#;s experiences, as well as social, cultural, and spiritual values, to treat the whole person rather than just the illness. Holistic also acknowledges t

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Holistic nursing warning practice dowel associated factors among nurses in get out hospitals pressure Wolaita district, South Ethiopia

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Abstract

Background

Holistic nursing care recap an taste to submissive care put off takes snag account description physical, group, spiritual, illustrious psychological wishes of depiction patient. Providing holistic distress signal has anachronistic found make somebody's acquaintance be involve effective elude to apartment block diseases jaunt death, considerably well trade in improve picture quality advance healthcare damaged to patients. However, in the face its seeming benefits, visit nurses scarcity experience occur holistic danger signal and solitary focus whole patients’ bodily needs, treating them style biological machines while ignoring their holy, mental, become peaceful social inevitably. Therefore, that study established to indication the tradition of holistic nursing warning and lying associated factors among nurses.

Methods

A hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted in the midst sampled Nurses working integrate public hospitals in Wolaita Zone. Thoroughgoing random case in point was purposeful to judge the con participants. A self-administered, pretested questionnaire was used cling on to collect rendering data. Representation collected statistics were entered into Epi Data amendment and analy

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The Concept of Nursing in Holistic Theories: An Integrative Review

Document Type : Original Quantitative and Qualitative Research Paper

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¹ PhD candidate of nursing, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

² Associated professor, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

³ Professor, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

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Abstract

Background: The initial review of the holistic nursing theories showed that while most definitions of holism share the same attributes, its application to nursing practice has led to much discourse.
Aim: This review therefore was carried out to analyze the concept of nursing in three known holistic theories including Rogers, Watson, and Margaret Newman.
Method: This concept analysis of nursing in the holistic theories was conducted based on Broom methodology of integrative review. Different stages of review included problem identification, literature search, data evaluation, data analysis, conclusion drawing and verification.
The literature was consisted of four books from three known theorists, and eight relevant articles. They retrieved from English data bases including SCOPUS and MEDLINE.
Results: The results of nursing concept analysis in holistic theories showed that holistic nursing is a process of mutu