All nurses are NOT holistic, sorry.

...I get a kick out of nurses who check a box on a pt chart that says they taught relaxation techniques or used guided immagery with a pt. Most have no idea what this is or even how to go about it let alone use it or teach it to a pt. The boxes get checked because they are there and you have to check something.

We learn about relaxation techiniques we learn that guided immagery exist but we do not learn it. It is a skill and it would be like saying you used acupuncture with a pt. We know vaguly a few gereralities about acupuncture but are hardly qualified to do it.

Yet, we are expected to do those things. So nurses say the do. Afterall charting is everything. Even the pts recognize we spend more time charting than actually careing for them. What a sad sad state of things health care has become.