AHNA Standards of Holistic Nursing Practice: Guidelines for Caring and Healing

Noreen Frisch, PhD, RN, FAAN

Barbara Montgomery Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN-Co-Director, International Nurse Coach Association (INCA), Co-Director Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program (INCCP), International Co-Director, Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH), Director, Holistic Nursing Consultants

Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, HNC, FAAN, is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the holistic nursing movement.  She is Director of Holistic Nursing Consultants in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  She has authored or co-authored 20 books including Compassionate Care of the Dying: Manual and Standards for Practice (2003), Florence Nightingale:  Mystic, Visionary, Healer (2000), Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice (2000), AHNA Standards of Holistic Nursing Practice (2000), Profiles of Nurse Healers (1998), AHNA Core Curriculum for Holistic Nursing (editor, 1997), AACN Handbook of Critical Care Nursing (1997), and Rituals of Healing (1994).

Barbara is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She is certified in holistic nursing. She is a seven-time recipient of the prestigious American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award. She was awarded the 1985 Holistic Nurse of the Year by the American Holistic Nurses' Association; the 1998 Healer of the Year by the Nurse Healers Professional Associates International, Inc.; the 1999 Pioneering Spirit Award by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses; and the 1999 Scientific and Medical Network Book of the Year by the Scientific and Medical Network, United Kingdom. The Doody’s Rating Service awarded her Florence Nightingale: Mystic Visionary, Healer as one of the 250 Best Health Sciences Books in 2000.  In 2001 she was recognized as TWU 100 Great Nursing Alumni, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas. She received the 2003 Distinguished Alumna Award from Baylor University, Waco, Texas

A major focus of her work currently is holistic nursing, compassionate care for the dying, and virtual education.  She is also exploring the impact of Florence Nightingale’s life and work on modern nursing and humankind.  For the 72nd General Episcopal Church Convention in Philadelphia July 1997, Barbara wrote three of five documents to accompany the Resolution Proposal to request the reconsideration of Nightingale’s commemoration and for her name to be placed on the church calendar list of Lesser Feast and Fasts in the Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer.  The official vote to accept Nightingale to the church calendar occurred in July 2000. The inaugural Florence Nightingale Commemorative Service was held on August 12, 2001, at the Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.

Cathie Guzzetta, RN, PhD, HNC, FAAN-Director, Children's Medical Center, Holistic Nursing Consultants

Cathie Guzzetta, RN, PhD, HNC, FAAN, is a nursing research consultant at Children's Medical Center of Dallas as well as director of Holistic Nursing Consultants in Dallas, Texas. She holds a BSN and an MSN from Marquette University and a PhD in Nursing from Texas Woman's University. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and is certified in holistic nursing.

Cathie is best known for her work in cardiovascular, critical care, and holistic nursing. She has served as editor-in-chief of the Mosby Yearbook's Capsules and Comments in Critical Care Nursing and co-editor of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. She has written many articles and has authored or co-authored 19 award-winning books including: AHNA Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice (2000; recipient of the AJN Book of the Year Award), AHNA Standards of Holistic Nursing Practice: Guidelines for Caring and Healing (2000), Selected Readings in Holistic Nursing (1998), AACN Handbook of Critical Care Nursing (1997; recipient of the AJN Book of the Year Award), AACN Pocket Handbook of Critical Care Nursing (1997), and The Art of Caring: Holistic Healing with Relaxation, Imagery, Music Therapy, and Touch (1996).

Her recent research has focused on family presence during CPR and invasive procedures. Her co-authored family-presence findings have won several awards, including the 2001 Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Research Dissemination Award, and have been featured on Good Morning America, NBC Dateline, CNN, Peter Jennings ABC World News Tonight and in Time Magazine, Newsweek, US News and World Report, The Washington Post, USA Today, Chicago Sun Times, and The New York Times. As a consultant, she also is directing a series of investigations focusing on integrating pharmacologic and complementary therapies to manage pediatric procedure-related pain.

She describes her professional mission as one of bringing holism to the forefront of nursing by translating holistic, caring, and healing concepts into concrete implications for nursing practice, education, research.

Johanne Quinn, RN, PhD