Holistic Nursing

Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice guides nurses in the art and science of holistic nursing and offers ways of thinking, practicing, and responding to bring healing to the forefront of healthcare. Using self-assessments, relaxation, imagery nutrition, and exercise, it presents expanded strategies for enhancing psychophysiology. The Fourth Edition addresses both basic and advanced strategies for integrating complementary and alternative interventions into the clinical practice.

Dossey & Keegan's Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice, Eighth Edition covers basic and advanced concepts of holism, demonstrating how holistic nursing spans all specialties and levels. This text is distinguished by its emphasis on theory, research, and evidence-based practice essential to holistic nursing.

You are more than your body, an assortment of parts. The holistic approach treats your mind, body, and soul as one unit. A holistic nurse treats their patients not just as another case or a regular diagnosis. Instead, a Holistic Nurse will customize her/his approach based the patient. This approach is more comprehensive and it simply works. In this book, you will learn about holistic nursing - its purpose, the research behind it, spirituality and more. Patients look forward to holistic nursing and the nurses are specifically trained for this purpose. A patient goes to a health care centers looking for a complete cure, not just a medical diagnosis and quick fix to their problem. Holistic Nurses are the best equipped to deal with such a patient's needs. Through Holistic Nursing, the patient becomes a part of the nurse's identity and they are offered more than just medical care. Patients need someone to guide them through their illness, to listen to their grievances, to offer care, a supportive hand, to understand their mental health, to soothe their anxieties and to associate with. Holistic nursing is the answer. This book covers: 1.What is holistic nursing? 2.The Key Principles of Holistic nursing 3.Holistic Healing- How it works? 4.Holism and Holistic Nursing. 5.Self Care with Holistic Nursing. 6.Holistic communication - Creating a therapeutic environment. 7.The science and the theory behind holistic and human caring. 8.Healing the Transpersonal self. 9.The purpose of Holistic nursing. 10.Enhanced Listening. 11.Psychophysiology of healing the body and mind. 12.Health and Spirituality. 13.Holistic Nursing and Spirituality. 14.Energetic Healing through Holistic Nursing. 15.The Power of Smell- Nursing through Aromatherapy. 16.Communication- Therapeutic form of Holistic Nursing. 17.The Holistic Nursing and Caring Process.

Nurses are increasingly aware of the need to blend technology, mind, and spirit in creating optimal circumstances for healing. The American Holistic Nurses Association, with Barbara Dossey, a pioneer and leader in the field, has created a core curriculum that will provide a blueprint for what it means to be a holistic nurse. This text can also serve as a study guide for the AHNCC exam. Core Curriculum for Holistic Nursing has a broad appeal to nurses new to holistic concepts as well as those who are already experts.

Holistic nursing has as its goal healing the whole person, an approach that is grounded in the inherent interconnectedness of self, others, nature, and spirituality. The holistic nurse is an instrument of healing and a facilitator in the healing process, honoring the individual's subjective experience of health, health beliefs, and values, viewing the whole person and his/her needs in their entirety, with integration as the goal. This publication is a guide to the essentials of a distinctive practice specialty. -- Publisher description.

Nurse Coaching: Integrative Approaches for Health and Wellbeing By Barbara Montgomery Dossey, Susan Luck, and Bonney Gulino Schaub Paperback-October 2014This is the first comprehensive Nurse Coach textbook that describes the theoretical and clinical relevance and practical application of an innovative, integrative, holistic, and integral nurse coaching model. This user-friendly book will guide your Nurse Coach practice to promote lifestyle behavioral change for health and wellbeing for both the nurse and the client/patient. It can be used in all healthcare environments and implemented in diverse settings including hospitals, communities, and private practice. In this book you will find theories and strategies to help you: Theory of Integrative Nurse Coaching; Integrative Nurse Coach Leadership Model; Integrative Nurse Coach™ Process and Competencies; coaching conversations, case studies, and coaching journeys with clients/patients; bio-psycho-social-spiritual-cultural-environment model of nurse coaching; evidenced-based coaching methodologies and practices; nutrition and environmental coaching skills; Integrative Health and Wellness Assessment™; nurse coach guidelines for practice, education, research, healthcare policy and advocacy; and integrative lifestyle resources and toolkit. This book is for all nurses and other health care providers seeking coaching knowledge and skills. For information on the Integrative Nurse Coach™ Certificate Program go to www.inursecoach.com/inccp/

This open access book aims to provide a comprehensive but practical overview of the knowledge required for the assessment and management of the older adult with or at risk of fragility fracture. It considers this from the perspectives of all of the settings in which this group of patients receive nursing care. Globally, a fragility fracture is estimated to occur every 3 seconds. This amounts to 25 000 fractures per day or 9 million per year. The financial costs are reported to be: 32 billion EUR per year in Europe and 20 billon USD in the United States. As the population of China ages, the cost of hip fracture care there is likely to reach 1.25 billion USD by 2020 and 265 billion by 2050 (International Osteoporosis Foundation 2016). Consequently, the need for nursing for patients with fragility fracture across the world is immense. Fragility fracture is one of the foremost challenges for health care providers, and the impact of each one of those expected 9 million hip fractures is significant pain, disability, reduced quality of life, loss of independence and decreased life expectancy. There is a need for coordinated, multi-disciplinary models of care for secondary fracture prevention based on the increasing evidence that such models make a difference. There is also a need to promote and facilitate high quality, evidence-based effective care to those who suffer a fragility fracture with a focus on the best outcomes for recovery, rehabilitation and secondary prevention of further fracture. The care community has to understand better the experience of fragility fracture from the perspective of the patient so that direct improvements in care can be based on the perspectives of the users. This book supports these needs by providing a comprehensive approach to nursing practice in fragility fracture care.

"Organized by the five Core Values contained within the American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) and the American Nurses Association (ANA) Holistic Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, Second Edition: * Core Value 1: Holistic Philosophy, Theories, and Ethics * Core Value 2: Holistic Caring Process * Core Value 3: Holistic Communication, Therapeutic Environment, and Cultural Diversity * Core Value 4: Holistic Education and Research * Core Value 5: Holistic Nurse Self-Reflection and Self-Care Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice, Seventh Edition has been awarded the American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) Seal of Distinction. This newly developed Seal of Distinction indicates that the book is aligned with AHNA's mission, vision, and Holistic Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, Second Edition; is of interest to holistic nurses and of significant value to the nursing profession; provides knowledge that advances holistic nursing; is timely and relevant; is consistent with relevant historical publications; is scientifically and technically accurate; and is authored by individuals with demonstrated expertise in the field of the work submitted"--Provided by publisher.