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Holistic Nursing and Self-Care
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Holistic Nursing
- Defined as all nursing practice that has a goal of healing the whole person.
- Focuses on body-spiritual-emotion environment of a person.
- It increases the patient's quality of life.
- It promotes holistic student education to the patients.
History and Significance of Holistic Nursing
- Introduced by Florence Nightingale in the mid-20th century.
- Dossey promoted a theory that explained the function of the inner world of nursing.
- The American Holistic Nurses Association was founded in 1980.
- The American Holistic Nurses Certification Corporation was founded in 1997
- Recognized as a specialty area in 2006.
- Ensures that nursing knowledge, expertise, intuition, and theories are used to promote therapeutic care to patients.
- It promotes the interconnection between the spirit, mind, and body.
Purpose of Holistic Nursing Core Value 2: Holistic Nurse Self -Reflection, Self-Development, and Self-Care
- Enables the patients to identify the best practices to promote their quality of life.
- Helps the patients to formulate effective self-care, self-development, and self-reflection plans
- To ensure that the patients have a mind, spirit, and body balance.
- Enables patients to focus more on prevention rather than treatment of health conditions.
Self-Reflection
- The deliberate habit of paying attention to one's own thoughts, decisions, emotions, and behaviors.
- Enables a person to analyze their life at a micro and macro level.
- The nurse helps a patient achieve self-reflection
- Enables a nurse to ensure that they provide effective care to their patients
- Benefits
- Allows a person to gain perspective
- Helps a person respond effectively
- Promotes learning and understanding
Self-Development
- Self-development is the deliberate actions to improve oneself in various aspects of life.
- It is one of the fields in holistic nursing.
- Enables a nurse to develop their knowledge and skills
- A holistic nurse practitioner helps clients come up with effective personal development goals and plans
- Entails improving
- Skills
- Talents
- Knowledge
- Competencies
Self-Care
- The deliberate act of promoting one's mental, social, spiritual, emotional, and physical health.
- A holistic nurse should implement self-care strategies for their clients
- The nurse should use connectedness to drive the care for their patients and themselves
- Use a bio-psycho-social model to formulate a patient treatment.
- Enable a nurse to have compassion satisfaction and avoid compassion fatigue
- Entails building resilience to the stressors that cannot be eliminated
Compassion Fatigue
- Emotional and physical exhaustion leads to diminished ability to feel compassion for others.
- The negative cost of caring
- Symptoms
- Irritability
- Chronic physical and emotional exhaustion
- Difficulty sleeping
- Self-contempt
- Impact
- Reduced empathy and compassion to patients by nurses
- Poor care to patients
- Poor self-care, self-development, and self-reflection
Compassion Satisfaction
- Pleasure and satisfying feeling that arises after helping others.
- Impacts
- Higher satisfaction for the patients
- Saving time and cost
- Promotes a sense of satisfaction and effectiveness for the nurses
- This leads to higher confidence
- Promotes the effectiveness of holistic nursing
- Techniques
- Get educated
- Practice self-care
- Boosting resiliency
- Using positive coping mechanisms
Comparison Between Compassion Fatigue and Compassion Satisfaction
Compassion Satisfaction | Compassion Fatigue |
The positive aspect of helping | The negative aspect of helping |
This leads to increased job satisfaction | This leads to reduced job satisfaction |
The positive cost of caring | The negative cost of caring |
Increased empathy and compassion by nurses | Reduced empathy and compassion by nurses |
Promotes effectiveness in holistic nursing | Reduced the effectiveness of holistic nursing |
Promotes patient satisfaction | Does not promote patient satisfaction. |
Effective care to patients | Poor care to patients |
Self-Care Techniques
- Daily self-care activities
- Take a walk
- Read an interesting book or magazine
- Meditate about the day's activities
- Take five minutes to decompress daily
- Weekly self-care activities
- Write the week's goals and objectives to attain
- Take a yoga class
- Monthly self-care activities
- Go for swimming
- Take a road trip
- Set goals and objectives to attain
Implementation of Self-Care Techniques
- To implement the self-care plan a routine on when to do the activities will be written
- Time will be set aside to do the activities
- Make the first step by beginning the activities
- Include roommate in the accountability plan to ensure that all the activities are adhered to.
- Working extra shifts could prevent adherence
- Unavoidable circumstances such as illnesses would also avoid adherence
- Currently, no activities will be eliminated.
- The plan will be planned during the free time
Summary
- Holistic nursing refers to all nursing practice that has a goal of healing the whole person.
- Introduced by Florence Nightingale in the mid-20th century.
- Promotes self-reflection, self-care, and self-development
- Self-reflection is the deliberate habit of paying attention to one's own thoughts, decisions, emotions, and behaviors.
- Self-care is the deliberate act of promoting one's mental, social, spiritual, emotional, and physical health.
- Self-development is the deliberate actions to improve oneself in various aspects of life.
- Compassion fatigue is the emotional and physical exhaustion that leads to diminished ability to feel compassion for others.
- Compassion satisfaction is a pleasure and satisfying feeling that arises after helping others.
- A self-care plan should be implemented to promote compassion satisfaction.
Reference
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