Nursing and Yoga

[healinghand]

I am a certified yoga teacher and right now a nursing student.

My question is for the experienced nurses in practice.

How many times you have observed Yoga practice being used for patient teaching ?

Is there any scope?

What is the general attitude?

Is there a positive response from physicians?

I'm planning to do a cerification in Holistic nursing after my RN.

I realy need o know what is the practice currently.

Thanks

Healing Hand.

[yoga crna]

Hi,

As you can see by my screen name, I also practice yoga. It has been a life changer for me--flexibility, strength, relaxation and ability to handle stress. I use it in my anesthesia practice as much as I can. It is amazing how relaxed a pre-op patient can become with some breathing exercises. In the post-op phase, yoga type breathing helps with pain management.

A lot of my plastic surgery patients do yoga, so there is mutual encouragment.

YogaCRNA