This program offers 15.5 Continuing Education Credits (CEU's) from Critical Care Nurses Assiciation.
At the Heart of Healing: Experiencing Holistic Nursing
This unique award winning DVD teaches and demonstrates holistic nursing practices that facilitate the inner mechanisms of the healing response. This innovative educational DVD provides nurses in all healthcare settings an opportunity to experience the dynamics and dimensions of holistic nursing practices that facilitate the inner mechanisms of the healing response.
This 3.5 hour interactive self study course presents an overview of holistic nursing theory and practice that can be integrated into all healthcare settings. This program allows the viewer to experience diverse healing modalities as part of an expanded view of health and healing that reflects the paradigm shift redefining our current health system and nursing care model today.
The information presented in this DVD is based upon research and findings published in scientific, medical, and nursing literature, documenting the impact of an integrated holistic approach for enhancing the healing process.
When viewing this DVD, the viewer can stop the program at any time to:
Practice, Reflect, Review, Write about any of the material presented. We recommend you use a writing journal along with this DVD for recording your insights and experiences of your inner journey toward personal and professional growth.
Holistic Nursing Philosophy
Holistic health recognizes and integrates the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels of our being.
Holistic health care treats the whole person understanding the interconnectedness of body/mind/spirit.
Holistic nursing integrates art and science, analytical and intuitive skills, and the ability and knowledge to choose from a wide variety of treatment modalities for health promotion and disease prevention and balance of body, mind, and spirit.
Within the holistic nursing framework, the human being is conceptualized as an open system of energy in mutual interaction with the environment. The unique pattern and organization of each person is manifested in their human response
A holistic nursing model expands on the accepted Standard Nursing Process framework. This process includes: patient assessment, nursing diagnosis, patient outcome, care planning, implementation of care, and evaluation.
Within the holistic nursing process, nursing assessment evaluates the person s total state of being including one s bio-psych-social patterns and interrelationships. The human response patterns viewed within a holistic nursing framework include the cultural and personal beliefs and perception on has about one s health and illness process.
Essential to holistic nursing process are listening and intuitive skills.
Featuring commentary from nurse healers and leaders in the field of holistic healthcare including:
Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, author of Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice, and Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer
Veda Andrus, PhD., RN, Past President, American Holistic Nurses Association, Director of the BirtchTree Center for Transformation
Susan Luck RN, HNC, CCN, Director of The Integrative Nursing Institute
Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. Co Director of Commonweal
Jeanne Achterberg, PhD Researcher and Author of Imagery and Healing: From Shamanism to Modern Medicine
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D, Former Director of the Mind/Body Clinic at Harvard Medical School
