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Essential Readings in Holistic Nursing

Author(s): Cathie Guzzetta, RN, PhD, HNC, FAAN, Director, Children's Medical Center, Holistic Nursing Consultants
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  • ISBN-13: 9780834211322
  • ISBN-10:0834211327
  • Paperback    402 pages      © 1998
Price: International Sales $84.95 US List
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Overview

This compilation of previously published articles captures the essential qualities of holistic nursing. It is the only resource that blends the theory, research and clinical aspects of holistic nursing. Articles have been selected from ten Aspen journals to provide the broadest scope possible. A rich resource for anyone who works or is interested in holism. Makes a good supplementary readings book for graduate and undergraduate courses in holistic nursing.

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Contents:

CARING * Understanding the World of the Patient, the Suffering Human Being: The New Clinical Paradigm for Nursing to Caring * Coping with Emotional Demands of Caring * Nursing and Technology: A Dialectic * The Caring Efficacy Scale: Nurses' Self-Reports of Caring in Practice * The Relationship of Patients' Perceptions of Holistic Nurse Caring to Satisfaction with Nursing Care

SPIRITUALITY * Becoming and Connecting: Elements of Spirituality for Women * Having Faith: Experiencing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting * Spirituality and Aging * SYNCHRONICITY * Modern Physics, Synchronicity, & Intuition * Synchronous Connections: Nursing's Little Secret

EXPANDED CONSCIOUSNESS * Holding Sacred Space: The Nurse as Healing Environment

CARING FOR THE CAREGIVER * Caring for Self: Becoming a Self-Reflective Nurse * Awakening the Nurse Healer Within * Systems Energetics: Holistic Model for Advanced Practice Nursing * Humor: An Antidote for Stress * Humor - A Missing Ingredient in Collaborative Practice 

CULTURE * Culturally Appropriate Care: Optional or Imperative * Bridging Cultural Boundaries: The African American and Transcultural Caring * Jewish Beliefs, Values, and Practices: Implications for Culturally Sensitive Nursing Care * Cultural Diversity in Grief

ENVIRONMENT * The Impact of Noise on Critically Ill People * Light wave Frequency and Sleep-Wake Frequency in Well, Full-Term Neonates

HEALTH PROMOTION FOR CLIENTS WITH SELECTED LIFESTYLE ALTERATIONS/ABUSE * Smoking Assessment and Intervention: An Essential Part of Disease Treatment * You Don't Ask for Trouble: Women Who Do Sex and Drugs * Alcohol Abuse in Older Persons: Implications for Critical Care * Beyond True and False Memories: Remembering and Recovery in the Survival of Childhood Sexual Abuse

SELECTED HOLISTIC NURSING INTERVENTIONS * The Efficacy of Relaxation Response Interventions with Adult Patients * The Effectiveness of Teaching a Relaxation Technique to Patients Undergoing Elective Cardiac Catheterization * The Effects of Guided Imagery on Anxiety Levels and Movement of Clients Undergoing Magnetic Resonance Imaging * Music and Pattern Change in Chronic Pain * An Introduction to Music Therapy: Helping the Oncology Patient in the ICU * Therapeutic Touch: A Healing Modality * Nursing Grand Rounds: Therapeutic Touch in the Coronary Care Unit * Psychoimmunologic Effects of Therapeutic Touch on Practitioners and Recently Bereaved Recipients: A Pilot Study * The Power of Touch: Massage for Infants

EXEMPLARS OF HOLISTIC NURSING PRACTICE * Preterm Infants and STRESS: A Tool for the Neonatal Nurse * Children's Experience of Surgery: Creating a Holistic Environment * Healing Through Integration: Promoting Wellness in Cardiac Rehabilitation * Trauma Bereavement Program: Review of Development and Implementation * Influencing Holistic Nursing Practice in Long-Term Care


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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.

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