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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This book is the first to put holistic caring-healing interventions into action. Endorsed by the American Holistice Nurses' Association, this work offers explicit guidelines for over fifty standards of holistic practice. Holistic philosophy, foundation, ethics, theories, research, and process are all covered. A must for anyone interested in holistic nursing practice.

This book provides an overview of the holistic nursing approach, along with chapters on 20 commonly encountered chronic conditions, ranging from diabetes to sleep disorders. The interventions described for each condition include recommendations for diet, herbal supplements (if appropriate), and therapies such as accupressure, guided imagery, and stress management. Treatment planning emphasizes minimally invasive wellness approaches. Each chapter includes a specific example of a holistic nursing assessment, a collaborative treatment plan with a list of possible interventions, and a section on evaluating the effects of treatment.