Amy E Rettig, Emily Lambrecht-Stock, Amy Lindsey, Loraine T Sinnott
{"title":"Describing Remembrance & Renewal: A Holistic Self-Care Program.","authors":"Amy E Rettig, Emily Lambrecht-Stock, Amy Lindsey, Loraine T Sinnott","doi":"10.1177/08980101231163448","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08980101231163448","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Background:</b> Holistic care interventions include support for healthcare worker grief in a relationship-based care paradigm. Few programs support oncology healthcare worker grief and renewal prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. <b>Objective:</b> Describe \"knowledge of\" and \"engagement with\" a program about grief and resilience, Remembrance & Renewal (R&R). <b>Method:</b> An anonymous, electronic survey was available to healthcare workers at an academic, comprehensive cancer center. Demographic questions were analyzed against \"knowledge of\" and \"engagement with.\" <b>Results:</b> Of 105 responding to \"awareness of,\" 81 knew about R&R and 48 had \"engaged with\" the program. Statistically significant relationships between a characteristic and awareness were found for education (<i>p</i> = .03), setting (p < .01), and the frequency of learning about a death (<i>p</i> = .04). Statistically significant relationships between a characteristic and level of participation were found for profession (<i>p</i> = .02) and length of time in job (<i>p</i> = .03). Open-ended questions asked about impact of patient death (<i>n</i> = 93), barriers to participation (<i>n</i> = 54), and feelings after \"engagement with\" (<i>n</i> = 45). Responses to impact, barriers, and feelings were respectively: sadness (75.3%); time (77.8%); and calm (75.6%). <b>Conclusion:</b> This study describes \"knowledge of\" and \"engagement with\" a holistic grief and renewal program. Further study will add to healthcare worker holistic self-care.</p>","PeriodicalId":51615,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Holistic Nursing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9156729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Healing Touch: A Strategy for Acute Care Nurses' Stress Reduction.","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/08980101231208494","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08980101231208494","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51615,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Holistic Nursing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49684879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Randy L Rosamond, Gloria Giarratano, Susan Orlando, Jane Sumner, Diedre Devier, Lee S McDaniel, Diane Wind Wardell
{"title":"Healing Touch: A Strategy for Acute Care Nurses' Stress Reduction.","authors":"Randy L Rosamond, Gloria Giarratano, Susan Orlando, Jane Sumner, Diedre Devier, Lee S McDaniel, Diane Wind Wardell","doi":"10.1177/08980101221142193","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08980101221142193","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of the study is to determine whether administering healing touch (HT) is more effective than deep breathing (DB) for reducing acute care nurses' stress during a shift. A randomized cluster trial assessed 150 nurses' vital signs and Visual Analog Scale for Stress (VASS) levels pre, post, and at follow-up to achieve a power of .7 and medium affect size. Open-ended questions following the intervention enriched quantitative findings describing the experience, facilitators, and barriers to potential use in nursing. The generalized estimating equation 1 (GEE1) comparisons of mean change over time, found that nurses in the HT intervention, had significantly lower VASS stress scores at posttreatment (-0.95, <i>p</i> = .0002) and at follow-up (-0.73, <i>p</i> = .0144) than the DB group, and the respiratory rate (RR) rate differences were nearly significant at post-intervention and significant at follow-up, respectively (1.36, <i>p</i> = .0568 and -2.28, <i>p</i> = .0011), indicating lower RR after HT. These findings support the use of HT as an effective stress reduction strategy as a relevant strategy to sustain a viable nurse work force post-COVID-19.</p>","PeriodicalId":51615,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Holistic Nursing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10632289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Storytelling: Manifesting Integral Interconnectedness in Holistic Nursing Education.","authors":"Amy Kenefick Moore","doi":"10.1177/08980101221144196","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08980101221144196","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper presents a middle-range theory of storytelling in nursing education. Both explanatory and predictive, the theory further develops the existing conceptual work on the topic of storytelling. It places storytelling as a pedagogical technique within the realm of holistic nursing theory and philosophy. Storytelling is seen as a manifestation of the process of integral interconnectedness. The theory suggests a mechanism by which storytelling, as mediated by narrative transportation and neuroplasticity, can be effective in promoting desirable outcomes for holistic nursing students, including the achievement of affective and cognitive educational objectives. The theory describes the relationship of storytelling to narrative transportation and neuroplasticity. Within the concept of storytelling, the Temporal Bidirectionality of Story and Experience and the Story Creation-Interpretation-Recreation Cycle of telling and listening are explained. This theory was developed using deductive reasoning combining existing nursing and non-nursing theories. Recommendations for research and application are included.</p>","PeriodicalId":51615,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Holistic Nursing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10513784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Time of Inconvenience.","authors":"W Richard Cowling","doi":"10.1177/08980101231207473","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08980101231207473","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51615,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Holistic Nursing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50163729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Energy Healers' Distance Healing Experience.","authors":"Diane Wind Wardell, Cathy Rozmus, Janet Pinner","doi":"10.1177/08980101231169884","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08980101231169884","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this study was to describe the experience of energy healing practitioners (specifically, Healing Touch) use of distance healing to provide insight into the methods, practice, and experience from the providers' perspective. One hundred and fifty-three energy workers participated in the open-ended survey. Overall, the experience of using distance healing during the pandemic was positive for practitioners in both giving and receiving. Practitioners also reported primarily positive feedback from their patients. A few respondents reported feeling hesitant about using distance healing and preferred hands-on work. However, distance healing was generally seen as providing flexibility to the practitioners' work, connection, and enhanced understanding of the human energy field.</p>","PeriodicalId":51615,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Holistic Nursing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9498301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building Spiritual Care Competency in Undergraduate Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Students: A Quality Improvement Project.","authors":"Rachel S Bush, Beverly Baliko, Phyllis Raynor","doi":"10.1177/08980101221103104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08980101221103104","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Purpose:</b> The spiritual care of patients is often overlooked in health care as many nurses are unprepared to provide competent, holistic care that addresses patients' spiritual needs. Since undergraduate academic instruction prepares nurses for practice, innovative strategies that train pre-licensure nurses to care for the spiritual needs of patients are essential. <b>Design:</b> A course needs assessment identified spiritual care as the most deficient competency for undergraduate psychiatric students. A three-phase quality improvement project designed to increase student awareness and practice of spiritual care included (a) development of a quality improvement plan, (b) implementation, and (c) outcome evaluation. <b>Methods:</b> Spiritual care was introduced into the Spring 2020 semester through didactic content and experiential practice. Additionally, an evidence-based spiritual assessment tool (i.e., HOPE questions) was integrated into the course to train students for use in clinical and simulation. Surveys were used to compare the 2019 and 2020 cohorts. Findings: Results showed a statistically significant increase in students' perception of spiritual care competency after project completion. <b>Conclusions:</b> Future implications include the use of similar methods to improve spiritual care competency for pre-licensure nursing students. Keywords: Spiritual care, undergraduate nurse, spiritual assessment.</p>","PeriodicalId":51615,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Holistic Nursing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9681931/pdf/nihms-1829866.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10251610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Holistic Nursing Competence on Work Engagement, Self-Reflection and Insight in Nurses.","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/08980101231199143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08980101231199143","url":null,"abstract":"1. Read the corresponding article in the September 2023 issue of the Journal of Holistic Nursing (Vol. 41, No. 3). 2. Go to www.ahna.org/Shop/Journal-oF-Holistic-Nursing-CNE to purchase the online continuing education activity. 3. Go to www.ahna.org and click on Education > Evaluation and Certificates to access the Journal of Holistic NursingOnline CNE. 4. This CNE activity is valid until August 30, 2025.","PeriodicalId":51615,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Holistic Nursing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10631012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ahmad S Musa, Osama Elbqowm, Mohammed AlBashtawy, Mohammad I Al Qadire, Mohammad Suliman, Loai I Tawalbeh, Abdullah Alkhawaldeh, Abdul-Moni'm Batiha
{"title":"Spiritual Wellbeing and Quality of Life among Hemodialysis Patients in Jordan: A Cross-Sectional Correlational Study.","authors":"Ahmad S Musa, Osama Elbqowm, Mohammed AlBashtawy, Mohammad I Al Qadire, Mohammad Suliman, Loai I Tawalbeh, Abdullah Alkhawaldeh, Abdul-Moni'm Batiha","doi":"10.1177/08980101221083422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08980101221083422","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: Nursing research studies investigating the relationship between spiritual wellbeing and health-related quality of life are lacking among Arab hemodialysis patients in Jordan or any other Arab country. The purpose of this study was to explore the associations between spiritual wellbeing, its religious and existential wellbeing dimensions, and health-related quality of life among Jordanian Muslim hemodialysis patients. Design: A cross sectional, quantitative correlational study. Methods: A convenience sample of 150 Jordanian hemodialysis patients completed a structured, self-administered questionnaire. Descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate regression models were used. Findings: The Jordanian hemodialysis patients had a moderate level of spiritual wellbeing and religious wellbeing, a low level of existential wellbeing, and a poor health-related quality of life. The findings revealed a significant moderate positive correlation between the spiritual wellbeing and its dimensions, and health-related quality of life. The existential wellbeing was the strongest predictor, with a large, positive, and significant effect after controlling for other spiritual, demographic and medical-related variables. Conclusion: Overall, the study suggests Jordanian hemodialysis patients use their religious and spiritual beliefs and practices as a coping mechanism, especially as sources of satisfaction, peace, comfort, strength and support, to help improve their health-related quality of life.","PeriodicalId":51615,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Holistic Nursing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10226867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public Painted Piano Effect on Cognitively Impaired Long Term Care Residents.","authors":"Gail L Fyke","doi":"10.1177/08980101221119777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08980101221119777","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Purpose:</b> The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of music combined with an artistic design of a painted piano on cognitively impaired residents living in a long-term care memory facility. <b>Design:</b> A qualitative descriptive study design was used to elicit responses from the participants. <b>Method:</b> Residents of the facility were invited to attend sessions, during which familiar songs were played. Residents were invited to touch the piano. A series of five interview sessions were performed over several weeks with each resident (N = 10). <b>Findings:</b> Five themes were identified from data analysis: 1. Is it new? 2. A range of piano memories 3. Play it (again) kid 4. I don't have anything to do up there 5. What is there to do now? Some residents expressed joy with the piano, and some had anxiety. However, all residents stayed for the entirety of the sessions and either participated by singing along, playing, or listening. <b>Conclusions:</b> Public painted piano intervention may have positive benefits for people with cognitive impairment and may be considered as part of a viable holistic care plan for this population of residents in a long-term care setting.</p>","PeriodicalId":51615,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Holistic Nursing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10228957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}