Contents:
CARING * Understanding the World of the Patient, the Suffering Human Being: The New Clinical Paradigm for Nursing to Caring * Coping with Emotional Demands of Caring * Nursing and Technology: A Dialectic * The Caring Efficacy Scale: Nurses' Self-Reports of Caring in Practice * The Relationship of Patients' Perceptions of Holistic Nurse Caring to Satisfaction with Nursing Care
SPIRITUALITY * Becoming and Connecting: Elements of Spirituality for Women * Having Faith: Experiencing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting * Spirituality and Aging * SYNCHRONICITY * Modern Physics, Synchronicity, & Intuition * Synchronous Connections: Nursing's Little Secret
EXPANDED CONSCIOUSNESS * Holding Sacred Space: The Nurse as Healing Environment
CARING FOR THE CAREGIVER * Caring for Self: Becoming a Self-Reflective Nurse * Awakening the Nurse Healer Within * Systems Energetics: Holistic Model for Advanced Practice Nursing * Humor: An Antidote for Stress * Humor - A Missing Ingredient in Collaborative Practice
CULTURE * Culturally Appropriate Care: Optional or Imperative * Bridging Cultural Boundaries: The African American and Transcultural Caring * Jewish Beliefs, Values, and Practices: Implications for Culturally Sensitive Nursing Care * Cultural Diversity in Grief
ENVIRONMENT * The Impact of Noise on Critically Ill People * Light wave Frequency and Sleep-Wake Frequency in Well, Full-Term Neonates
HEALTH PROMOTION FOR CLIENTS WITH SELECTED LIFESTYLE ALTERATIONS/ABUSE * Smoking Assessment and Intervention: An Essential Part of Disease Treatment * You Don't Ask for Trouble: Women Who Do Sex and Drugs * Alcohol Abuse in Older Persons: Implications for Critical Care * Beyond True and False Memories: Remembering and Recovery in the Survival of Childhood Sexual Abuse
SELECTED HOLISTIC NURSING INTERVENTIONS * The Efficacy of Relaxation Response Interventions with Adult Patients * The Effectiveness of Teaching a Relaxation Technique to Patients Undergoing Elective Cardiac Catheterization * The Effects of Guided Imagery on Anxiety Levels and Movement of Clients Undergoing Magnetic Resonance Imaging * Music and Pattern Change in Chronic Pain * An Introduction to Music Therapy: Helping the Oncology Patient in the ICU * Therapeutic Touch: A Healing Modality * Nursing Grand Rounds: Therapeutic Touch in the Coronary Care Unit * Psychoimmunologic Effects of Therapeutic Touch on Practitioners and Recently Bereaved Recipients: A Pilot Study * The Power of Touch: Massage for Infants
EXEMPLARS OF HOLISTIC NURSING PRACTICE * Preterm Infants and STRESS: A Tool for the Neonatal Nurse * Children's Experience of Surgery: Creating a Holistic Environment * Healing Through Integration: Promoting Wellness in Cardiac Rehabilitation * Trauma Bereavement Program: Review of Development and Implementation * Influencing Holistic Nursing Practice in Long-Term Care
