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Charlotte Eliopoulos, RN, PhD, currently serves as president of the American Holistic Nurse's, Association, allowing her to observe the issues pertaining to holistic nursing and Christianity. Her area of expertise is holistic chronic care and gerontological nursing. She is the author of 17 books. She provides consultation and education through Health Education Network. She attends Grace Fellowship in Timonium, Maryland.Figure

Holistic Nursing and Caring: A Value-Based Approach

This paper offers an overview of Holistic Nursing and Caring. It introduces an expanded model for nursing and health care. It is founded upon core values related to holism, grounded in the heritage of Nightingale, yet congruent with contemporary nursing theory and professional developments in “holistic” nursing and medical circles. The concept of holism, and holistic, with their origin in the Western world, were discovered during the conference as perhaps inadequate and different from Japanese and Eastern meanings, language, and orientations toward holistic. That is, perhaps Japanese nursing does not require the language of “holistic”. Rather, with the leadership of Dr. Sumiko Maehara, the conference participants were invited to consider the Japanese word, “Yorisou”, conveying “being with, or going with” as perhaps a more useful term for Japanese nursing than the word holistic. In the end, the convergence of shared values of caring, love, presence, honoring self and other, and Being with, become core for nursing, transcending continents, world-views and time. This paper highlights the convergence of values of caring that are both holistic and more, uniting Eastern and Western Nursing.

Joining mind mapping and care planning to enhance student critical thinking and achieve holistic nursing care.

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Index to Journal of Holistic Nursing

Index to Journal of Holistic Nursing

An Extended Epistemology for Fostering Transformative Learning in Holistic Nursing Education and Practice

The transformation from traditional nursing practice to holistic nursing is one that requires recognition of multiple ways of knowing. Transformative learning theory reflects a strong bias toward cognitive epistemology and propositional knowing. This epistemology, labeled here as truncated, rests on an understanding of experience derived from pragmatism. This article describes an extended epistemology derived from the work of John Heron that better reflects the full range of knowing utilized by holistic nurses. This epistemology provides a foundation for innovative approaches for the development of holistic awareness in the training and continuing professional development of nurses. One such approach, collaborative inquiry, is described.

Goodbye Joe

FIGUREFigure: Goodbye Joe, by Lisa Wayman, Charlie Wayman, and Katrina Wayman; oil paint and collage with Legos, music, puzzle pieces, Boy Scout medals and a religious medal, and black-and-white photographs; 27” × 37”, 1998.Goodbye Joe was a family endeavor to celebrate and memorialize Joseph Wayman’s life. Joe, who died of a brain stem glioma at age 12, was Lisa and Charlie Wayman’s son and Katrina’s brother. Lisa Wayman writes: “In school I was taught that a professional nurse did not become involved in her patients’ lives. . . . After Joe died I had such difficulty [with] this. I could no longer be distant and behave as though my patients’ lives didn’t affect me.” In learning about holistic nursing, she found that her life and her work as a nurse and an artist need not be separate: “I can show patients an avenue for healing, even when I cannot be an agent for cure.”

Postbook: Working the Ruins of Feminist Ethnography

Postbook: Working the Ruins of Feminist Ethnography

Assessment tools: are they an effective approach to implementing spiritual health care within the NHS?

Over the last 25 years, many nursing and palliative care journals have carried articles on the subject of ‘spiritual’ health care. The following is a review of National Health Service (NHS) guidelines and the work of various writers who have contributed to the debate on ‘spirit’ and ‘spiritual needs’ from within sociology, palliative care and nursing studies.However, ‘spiritual’ in the current usage should not be confused with ‘religious’ and is part of an understanding of what is known as holistic nursing (Dossey et al. 1995). This paper will examine what is meant by ‘spiritual’ and religious needs and what is indicated by the words ‘spiritual’ and ‘spirit’; and some of the implications for a health care team will be considered. The place of assessment tools in ‘spiritual’ health care, and the role of the NHS chaplain in the assessment and provision of ‘spiritual’ health care will be examined.

NYU's Holistic Nursing Program: Expanding the Conventional Boundaries of Nursing

NYU's Holistic Nursing Program: Expanding the Conventional Boundaries of Nursing

Applied Concepts of Holistic Nursing

Meeting the many needs of a young adolescent on a busy Saturday can be quite a challenge. This article shows how a nurse practitioner drew on Watson's theory of caring as the basis of her interaction with an 11-year-old boy and his mother and relied on her ability to be flexible and creative in the process. The positive outcomes of this visit were evident in the client's and mother's change of affect and their commitment to take positive action. the nurse practitioner experienced renewal of spirit and a sense of gratitude for the effective role she played in this interaction.

Standards for Holistic Nursing Practice: A Way to Think About Our Care That Includes Complementary and Alternative Modalities

The Standards of Holistic Nursing Practice were developed by the American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) as a public statement regarding the practice of holistic nursing as a specialty. This article reviews the development of the practice standards, and presents the philosophies and values which underpin holistic nursing. Certification in the speciality is awarded through the American's Holistic Nurses' Certification Corporation (AHNCC) to nurses able to demonstrate knowledge and skills described in the Standards. The relationship between holistic nursing practice and complementary and alternative modalities is discussed.

HOLISTIC NURSING: Taking Your Practice to the Next Level*

The goal of holistic nursing is to enhance healing of the whole person from birth to death. The new AHNA Standards of Holistic Nursing Practice define the ways to accomplish this goal, describing the scope of holistic nursing practice and the level of care expected from a holistic nurse. Nurses can reduce the devastating effects of crisis and illness of individuals by using this reference. 1

CHARACTERISTICS OF SPIRITUALITY, ASSESSMENT, AND PRAYER IN HOLISTIC NURSING

There is a rediscovery and interest in spirituality at the outset of the third millennium. The challenge will be to harness the spiritual energy naturally available so that patients may be healed and not necessarily cured. Engaging in a patient's own healing process, nurturing a spirituality of life, learning the tools of spiritual assessment, developing ways of praying, being attentive to developing caring relationships so as to be an "Anam Cara" or soul friend, and networking with other spiritual care professionals are useful resources for the holistic nurse.

THE ROLE OF AROMATHERAPY IN NURSING CARE

Aromatherapy is the fastest growing of all complementary therapies among nurses in the United States. Although aromatherapy has been used by the public for recreation for thousands of years and by nurses throughout the world during the last 15 years, it is only in the last few years that aromatherapy has become recognized by US State Boards of Nursing as a legitimate part of holistic nursing. Aromatherapy is now set to become one of the most popular tools that nurses can use to enhance their nursing care and simultaneously empower themselves. This article explores the potential role of aromatherapy in nursing, highlights four essential oils, and suggests practical ways that nurses can begin using this gentle therapy.

Cultura, educación y cuidados en la atención al paciente ostomizado

Adequate Nursing care demands anthropological knowledge of the people who are to be cared for. Patients with an ostomy experience changes, alterations and disturbances by their new situation at all levels: physical, psychological, social and cultural. This knowledge provides us with the basis for flexible, adapted and individualised care in order to prevent, minimise or sort out the problems that may arise. Our work is based upon Virginia Henderson's holistic and humanistic perspective and nurses' autonomy and authority to deal with the patient's trouble and satisfactory and independently fulfill his/her basic needs. Literature has been reviewed in search of the ways in which culture and education determine acceptance and independence of the patient with an ostomy.

The spiritual aspects of dying at home.

Paterson and Zderad's humanistic nursing theory can be used to meet the spiritual needs of terminally ill persons in the home setting. The spiritual needs, as identified by Highfield and Cason, are applied to the hospice patient. The comforts of the home environment and humanistic nursing practice are integrated in the "meetings" between dying persons, their families, and hospice nurses. These meetings contribute to fulfilling the spiritual needs of terminally ill persons. Hospice nurses practicing holistic nursing and using caring behaviors help dying persons develop a "more-being" in themselves as the triad of person, family, and nurse share the lived experiences.

Writer's guide to nursing periodicals

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Index to Journal of Holistic Nursing

Index to Journal of Holistic Nursing

Ecospirituality. A pattern that connects.

Ecospirituality is a manifestation of the spiritual connection between human beings and the environment. Ecospirituality incorporates an intuitive and embodied awareness of all life and engages a relational view of person to planet, inner to outer landscape, and soul to soil. This study describes an appraisal of a pattern in the human-environmental, continuous mutual process and innovative change; a phenomenological study that used the focus group method. Randomly selected volunteer registrants (n = 36) of phase one of the American Holistic Nurses' Association Certificate Program in Holistic Nursing constituted the sample and participated in one of four focus groups. The findings of this study contribute to holistic nursing by examining the essence of the lived experience of an ecospiritual consciousness of select holistic nurses. The essences of an ecospiritual consciousness are uniquely inseparable entities embedded within the framework of an ecospiritual consciousness. The essences are tending, dwelling, reverence, connectedness, and sentence.

A review of the concept of culture in holistic nursing literature.

Core Value IV of the American Holistic Nurses' Association includes valuing the client's cultural background. The authors reviewed all article abstracts from two major holistic nursing journals for a 3-year period (N = 198). References to concepts of culture or ethnicity were found in only 9.6% of abstracts. Many theorists and researchers did not discuss how the theory or research findings varied between culturally or ethnically diverse samples. When culture is a core value, practitioners and researchers cannot assume that culture has been considered without stating what was the interaction of culture with the phenomenon of concern. The authors recommend that nurses develop cultural competence in caring for clients from differing cultural orientations by (a) committing to improve their knowledge of multiple cultures; (b) exploring their own cultural background; (c) seeking exposure to cultures other than their own; and (d) regularly discussing culture and ethnicity in nursing theory, research, and practice.