Demonstrating Care: The Art of Integrative Nursing
This important reference addresses the issue of integrating the art of caring with the science of biomedical knowledge in the practice of nursing. This innovative text looks at the ways that nurses have demonstrated care through recorded history since the writings of Florence Nightengale and how caring modalities, now referred to as "Complementary Therapies" have been used. With this reflection on the past we can learn to develop new techniques to integrate complementary therapies into...
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This important reference addresses the issue of integrating the art of caring with the science of biomedical knowledge in the practice of nursing. This innovative book looks at the ways that nurses have demonstrated care through recorded history since the writings of Florence Nightengale and how caring modalities, now referred to as "Complementary Therapies" had been used. With this reflection on the past we can learn to develop new techniques to integrate complementary therapies into present day nursing practice that has become highly technical. This integration is essential in meeting the public's call for complementary therapies.Five caring modalities: Touch, Environment, Nutrition, Communication, and Energy have been identified and are covered exclusively for the development of the healing relationship and the enhancement of nursing care.An emphasis on reestablishing a connection to history allows the reader to gain a better understanding how to link the tradition of complementary therapies into their daily practice. Booknews Looks at ways nurses historically have demonstrated care since the writings of Florence Nightingale, and how caring modalities, now referred to as complementary therapies, have been used. Examines connections between five aspects of demonstrating care and five categories of nursing fundamentals, and their relationship with complementary therapies. Science and art of each modality is addressed. For nurses who wish to integrate complementary therapies into their biomedical practice. Author information is not given. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
ForewordPreface Part OneINTEGRATIVE NURSINGChapter 1 Nursing in a Biomedical WorldChapter 2 Integrative Nursing: Illusory, Idealistic, or Imperative Part TwoDEMONSTRATING CAREChapter 3 Where Theories End and the Action BeginsChapter 4 How Nurses Demonstrate Caring: Past and PresentChapter 5 Envisioning the Future of Caring Part ThreeCARING MODALITIES:NURSING AND COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIESChapter 6 A New Name for Nursing FundamentalsChapter 7 Touch: Opening the Door to the HeartChapter 8 Creating a Healing Environment Within and WithoutChapter 9 Nutrition: Nurturing with FoodChapter 10 Communication: The Healing RelationshipChapter 11 Energy Therapy: Understanding the Body Energetic and Magnetic Part FourTHE EVOLUTION OF NURSING PRACTICEChapter 12 A Model for Integrative Nursing PracticeChapter 13 Choosing Caring ModalitiesChapter 14 The Growth of a Caring Profession Appendices
\ BooknewsLooks at ways nurses historically have demonstrated care since the writings of Florence Nightingale, and how caring modalities, now referred to as complementary therapies, have been used. Examines connections between five aspects of demonstrating care and five categories of nursing fundamentals, and their relationship with complementary therapies. Science and art of each modality is addressed. For nurses who wish to integrate complementary therapies into their biomedical practice. Author information is not given. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
