Reflection paper with draft # 1 and Draft # 2 with appendix

profileAGFOX
HolisticPowerpoint1.ppt

Holistic Nursing and Self-Care

Student's Name

Institution

Instructor

Date

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

  • DeRobertis, E. M. (2017). The phenomenology of learning and becoming: Enthusiasm, creativity, and self-development. Springer.
  • Knapp, S., Gottlieb, M. C., & Handelsman, M. M. (2017). Enhancing professionalism through self-reflection. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 48(3), 167.
  • Riegel, B., Dunbar, S. B., Fitzsimons, D., Freedland, K. E., Lee, C. S., Middleton, S., ... & Jaarsma, T. (2019). Self-care research: Where are we now? Where are we going?. International journal of nursing studies, 103402.
  • Sinclair, S., Raffin-Bouchal, S., Venturato, L., Mijovic-Kondejewski, J., & Smith-MacDonald, L. (2017). Compassion fatigue: A meta-narrative review of the healthcare literature. International journal of nursing studies, 69, 9-24.
  • Sacco, T. L., & Copel, L. C. (2018, January). Compassion satisfaction: A concept analysis in nursing. In Nursing forum (Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 76-83).
  • Thornton, L. (2016). What is holistic nursing. Retrieved on 19th January.