is there really a place for holistic medicine in the "real"nursing world

[chicagrl72]

i come from a very holistically minded background and want to know if any nurses out there are able to use and holistic practices to help patients

by this i even mean ....

helping pts analyze their diets etc..

i feel nutrition is so overlooked ...esp in the medically and american society

just wondering

[spiritualnurse]

Yes!

Besides being a nursing teacher, I'm a Reiki master.

Nursing has all with holistic manners of caring because nursing is holistic in its nature.

[krisssy]

Hi,

It is 6 months since I last posted. My post op abdominal pain is gone, and I am off the Percoset. The pain just disappeared with time, and I was detoxed from the Percoset when I didn't need it anymore.

I am taking a course called Theories in graduate school, and I see holistic medicine in a different light.

Holistic means "concerned with wholes rather than analysis or separation into parts." Holism is " the theory of the importance of taking all of somebody's physical, mental and social conditions, not just physical symptoms, into account in the treatment of illness." Hiatt (1986) proposed that the bio-psycho-social model needed to include the spiritual because, that dimension, concerned as it is with life meaning is one determinant of health related attitudes." So to me at this point in my education, being a holistic nurse means that I will take all of these things into consideration when working as a nurse with a patient; bio, psycho-social-spiritual. Krisssy

[lisabeth]

Yes!

Besides being a nursing teacher, I'm a Reiki master.

Nursing has all with holistic manners of caring because nursing is holistic in its nature.

What is Reiki?

[indigo girl]

Reiki is a type of healing energy, a universal life force energy, that is drawn thru the practioner (who is the conduit) into the receiving person, animal, plant or thing. If it isn't wanted, it won't flow thru. Both practioner, and receiver are getting it. Most of us experience warmth and tingling in our hands which is the typical way of passing the energy along. It can also be given without touch as in distance healing or in cases where touch is not a good idea such as with a wild animal. The receiver or client may also feel the hotness of our hands or a tingling sensation. It does not allow itself to be used for anything but goodness. The practioner is working with spiritual guides which most become aware of pretty quickly. It is a very respectful relationship. When you are working with this energy or any of the touch therapies, you are also receiving information specific to helping that person. Not their inmost secrets, but rather where the pain is, what joint is inflammed, or even sometimes if something happened to them that is causing a problem for them now. Practioners working with Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, Healing Touch, Reconnective Healing, and Polarity Therapy as well as many other of these healing modalities usually become very intuitive as they are working their psychic muscles so to speak. The more they practice, the more psychic they get. The sense of touch gives us information, but many of us also have other psychic senses activated. I hope that helps you understand and that I haven't wierded you out too much. Many of us have spent quite a bit of money learning these techniques and studied with some very well respected teachers. I have enjoyed the study and use of all of the above, and it has enriched my life enormously.