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Dear Friend Please read the post I just put up today on this very subject. The thread I think they call it that since I am new at this is, Reiki and healing Touch for pain management. Healing Touch International and Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry is the most extensive program out there and only the best and most qualified teach. Let me know what you think.

My Dear eresa This is really for our fellow nurses please check out Healing Touch International or http://www.htspiritualministry.com Linda Smith. They discuss all of this topics including ethics, they are all professionals and many have MS degrees and they are not new age or spooks. I have been a nurse for 20 years I took a break and would like to get back into the field again, but after what I am hearing no wonder no one wants to go back into nursing all this negitivity I thought we were a team. As nurses, our creed is not only to care for the physical and emotional but must we forget the spiritual health. How is that not ethical? do we ask permission to touch a patient first so we do not intrude or make them feel violated? most of the time no. Has anyone ever given you a touch or a hug that just didn't feel right? WELL, ask first! we are not just skin and bones we are living breathing beings and with that comes responsibility to the Spirit, yes the Spirit as well. Weather you are agnostic or a believer of a higher power we have a energy a spirit and that's that feeling you get when you pass by someone and your hair raises on the back of your neck that's what we are caring for. Anyway I will get off my soap box try these sites and be informed before you decide.

It's OK, You are younger than I am and I want to go back into nursing, I was a cna for 25+ years and trained at a local hospital in their LPN course way back when, they pulled the program just before graduation and we left with a cna instead of a license. I worked for a wonderful Dr. for over 14+ years until he retired and I went into a computer field with smart mapping could not get a job, lots of internships but no perminate work when the contracts are up so are you. I am scared, I heard all the horror stories about the waiting lists even if you get into the program, your a number, and if you are lucky might, just might be picked to continue. Your drive inspires me and lets face it bad things and life happen to all people. We are not super human and because we have a servants heart and compasionate spirits, I think we forget we need to be compasionate with ourselves. That kindness and compassion that heals others will heal you. We did not choose this filed it has choosen us, it's who we are be it curse or blessing. We just have to be creative and open to other choices in this field wheather it is x-ray, hospice, patient management or admitting that compassion comes out and touches others we may never see it or know it but it does. We all need things that just part of the human flesh. This is the first time I have responded and I hope this is the right way if there is such a thing in posting. Just Breath be good to yourself don't forget we need teachers and teachers aides badly and the pay is awful to be sure, but we will be very grateful and make you all proud someday, speaking from someone who would like to see a nursing school like the old days. And there is always Theraputic touch or Healing Touch. Peace from Las Vegas NV