Cathie Guzzetta, RN, PhD, HNC, FAAN - Director, Children's Medical Center, Holistic Nursing Consultants
Cathie Guzzetta, RN, PhD, HNC, FAAN, is a nursing research consultant at Children's Medical Center of Dallas as well as director of Holistic Nursing Consultants in Dallas, Texas. She holds a BSN and an MSN from Marquette University and a PhD in Nursing from Texas Woman's University. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and is certified in holistic nursing.
Cathie is best known for her work in cardiovascular, critical care, and holistic nursing. She has served as editor-in-chief of the Mosby Yearbook's Capsules and Comments in Critical Care Nursing and co-editor of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. She has written many articles and has authored or co-authored 19 award-winning books including: AHNA Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice (2000; recipient of the AJN Book of the Year Award), AHNA Standards of Holistic Nursing Practice: Guidelines for Caring and Healing (2000), Selected Readings in Holistic Nursing (1998), AACN Handbook of Critical Care Nursing (1997; recipient of the AJN Book of the Year Award), AACN Pocket Handbook of Critical Care Nursing (1997), and The Art of Caring: Holistic Healing with Relaxation, Imagery, Music Therapy, and Touch (1996).
Her recent research has focused on family presence during CPR and invasive procedures. Her co-authored family-presence findings have won several awards, including the 2001 Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Research Dissemination Award, and have been featured on Good Morning America, NBC Dateline, CNN, Peter Jennings ABC World News Tonight and in Time Magazine, Newsweek, US News and World Report, The Washington Post, USA Today, Chicago Sun Times, and The New York Times. As a consultant, she also is directing a series of investigations focusing on integrating pharmacologic and complementary therapies to manage pediatric procedure-related pain.
She describes her professional mission as one of bringing holism to the forefront of nursing by translating holistic, caring, and healing concepts into concrete implications for nursing practice, education, research.
