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PubMed2004

"Making special": a framework for understanding the art of holistic nursing.

Holistic nurses demonstrate interest in and concern for aesthetics in nursing; however, the relationship of holistic nursing to aesthetics in nursing lacks clarity. Challenges to the study of aesthetics in nursing arise from too little discourse on the topic and lack of consensus on language and methods of inquiry. Nevertheless, aesthetic knowing is a fundamental pattern of knowing in nursing and the one that mediates and integrates all other patterns of knowing in nursing action. A behavioral theory of aesthetics provides a framework for exploring the relationship of holistic nursing to aesthetic knowing and the art of nursing. Synthesis of this framework with holistic nursing core values and standards of practice suggests that holistic nursing is more than perspective; it is an aesthetic.

Esthetics↗
PubMed1998

[Modernizing nursing with holistic nursing systems? Results of a formative assessment].

A project aiming at the implementation of a holistic nursing system was conducted on selected wards of a general hospital. The results of a formative evaluation are presented from a work psychological perspective. The reorganisation of nursing led to a higher degree of patient and employee orientation. Most aspects of nurses' work load were reduced but the improvement did not effect nurses' strain to the expected degree. Decision latitudes at the workplace were enlarged, whereas only few changes in decision latitudes were stated with regard to areas outside the ward. The project is discussed as a reflexive strategy of modernization; its success is a result of a process-oriented management which is able to react on unavoidable consequences in the reorganization process.

Burnout, Professional↗
PubMed1989

Holistic nursing.

Holistic health care began in antiquity, but it gradually faded from traditional medicine. The re-emergence of the whole-thinking paradigm has begun to revolutionize the health care system. New modes of nursing intervention, including therapeutic massage, therapeutic touch, imagery, and music, are now available for implementation by the postanesthesia nurse. In addition, nurses must recognize the need for self-care and healthful behavior patterns in their own lives. When nurses model wellness, they feel and function better, and they will be more able to meet the goal of high-quality care.

Holistic Health↗
PubMed1994

The meaning of holism in nursing: historical shifts in holistic nursing ideas.

Throughout the history of nursing, holistic ideas can be identified that reflect nursing's ambivalence towards changes in health care and in ideas about illness during the 19th and 20th century. The relationship between historical context and the meaning of holism in nursing is described using historical as well as conceptual analyses. Three important periods are discussed: holistic public health nursing in the beginning of the century, a shift towards holistic hospital nursing in the middle of the century, and a modern holistic health nursing model that emerged in the 1960s. Each period reflects a different perspective on nursing's struggle to gain status as a profession, its complicated relationship with medicine, and its difficulty in maintaining the tradition of care and compassion within an industrialized society that becomes more individualized and fragmented.

History, 19th Century↗
PubMed1996

[Holistic nursing--definition and realization].

Holistic nursing This article focuses on the current discussion on holistic nursing. Looking at holistic nursing from a work psychological perspective a classification of nursing models is presented. So far, the prevalence of holistic nursing models was overestimated in empirical studies since there was a lack of relevant criteria. The proposed classification allows to differentiate models of nursing along the two dimensions: design of nursing organization and nursing principle. Preconditions and prospects of holistic nursing are discussed with regards to the completed and the current implementation of projects.

Classification↗
PubMed1997

A phenomenological interpretation of holistic nursing.

Phenomenology contributes to holistic nursing by interpreting the first-person encounter with the lived world. Holistic nursing care integrates biopsychosociological knowledge with the practical care that is the legacy of generations of practicing nurses. A practice, when interpreted phenomenologically, is a historically developed way of fostering human well-being. Nursing is the practice of caring. Because nursing care concerns helping persons to live better in their world, it includes the moral, esthetic, and interpersonal aspects of care. These spiritual aspects are integrally enmeshed in holistic nursing. The spiritual in holistic nursing also designates the value dimension of meaning that gives life its worth and patients and nurses the courage to be. Interpreted phenomenologically, holistic nursing integrally relates scientific meaning with the meanings of nursing practice, the lived world of patients, and the meaning that gives patients and nurses the courage to seek well-being in a world altered by illness and debilitation.

Existentialism↗
PubMed2001

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.

Clinical Competence↗
PubMed1989

Spirituality: cornerstone of holistic nursing practice.

Practitioners of holistic nursing seek to be part of an environment that is healing, recognizing that healing occurs on many levels. Suffering and pain are viewed as part of larger life experience and may be sources of growth and transformation. Understanding that spirituality has to do with all of life and is expressed in a variety of ways, the practitioner of holistic nursing is open to the spirituality of self and others, as manifested in the ordinary as well as the dramatic, and in gentle ways encourages its experience and expression.

Holistic Health↗