Holistic nursing offers an incredible opportunity for positive change

Holistic Nursing

This is a wonderful article that highlights a growing and pivotal role, Holistic Nursing. Nurse Journal predicts a 19% growth in Holistic Nursing by 2022. The need may grow even faster as person-centric practices continue to evolve. Clinicians and consumers want more practices like Integrative Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine, Functional Medicine, etc.

Holistic nursing offers an incredible opportunity for positive change. If nurses were to step back and take a breath, center, and learn what is important to and what meaning this illness has to the person in the hospital gown, if our hospitals were to actively support nurses in the implementation of holistic nursing practices, we would see a benefit not just to the patients, but also to the nurses themselves.

Holism is, at its core, about connection: you cannot separate the body from the mind or the spirit or emotion. In that way, holistic nursing is also about connection, about totality. You don’t just treat the symptoms of a disease you treat the whole person.

A person’s social support, their health practices, family lifestyle and illness patterns, personality traits, and social, structural and cultural factors are all integral to their health and healing. Holistic nursing focus on nurses building relationships with their patients and families. Doing so enables nurses to put the patient first, to ask the significant questions that will help a patient feel less anxious and open up.

Health is about so much more than medications and medical interventions.  Holistic nursing practices focus on balance, integration and harmony. The emphasis shifts from living longer to living better, from medical treatment only to a person’s own natural healing capacity and wellbeing.

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