{"title":"Caregivers talk about experiences of caring for an older person with dementia.","authors":"Tina Koch, June Marks, Anne Hofmeyer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study explored caregivers' experiences of caring for an older person with dementia by listening to the voices of 15 carers to identify successful management strategies. Some successful management strategies did emerge none saw their approach as a 'successful strategy', just that things worked on certain days. It is suggested that families can be prepared for a 'career' in caring and that early assessment and diagnosis is essential.</p>","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"9 2","pages":"14-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22174315","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":"Intuition and visual art: student nurses' projection into experiences of elderly women.","authors":"Britt-Maj Wikström","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of the present study was to determine the degree to which student nurses in Sweden were able to predict responses of elderly women to 12 paintings. The result showed that the students were able to enter into situations and experiences of the elderly women. They used intuitive knowing-they were emotionally involved and used cognitive knowing during the prediction process. It could be concluded that nurse educators concerned with finding new directions to develop intuition skills might consider visual art of considerable value.</p>","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"9 2","pages":"24-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22174316","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":"Philophonetics counselling for prevention of burnout in nurses.","authors":"Patricia Sherwood, Yehuda Tagar","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nurses who have self-reported burnout rate their experiences prior to and after the intervention to reveal significant reductions in their burnout experience on all items. Philophonetics counselling interventions address feelings of victimization, disorientation, loss of decision making power, lack of interpersonal boundaries and disconnection from one's inner being and one's internal resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"9 2","pages":"32-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22174317","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":"An examination of factors influencing natural therapy use in the Royal District Nursing Service.","authors":"Matthew Leach","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fifty-six nurses employed by the Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) of South Australia completed a questionnaire examining factors that influence and constrain natural therapy use in nursing practice. Other issues examined included natural therapy education; natural therapy knowledge base; therapies utilised in practice; and types of patients and health conditions exposed to these therapies.</p>","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"9 2","pages":"41-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22174318","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":"The natural holistic imperative.","authors":"Stephen Kermode","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Biodiversity is nature's expression of the principle of holism. This 'natural holistic imperative' is manifested in all aspects of the environment. While environmental health originated through a concern for protecting humans from environmental risks, it is now concerned with protecting the environment from the activities of humans. In order to protect the health of humans, there is a need to be concerned with protection of the biosphere. Moreover, the environmental crisis is essentially a crisis in spirituality, and a spirituality that respects and nurtures the non-human parts of our universe as much as it does the human ones is likely to be the only means of securing the health and happiness of humanity.</p>","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"9 2","pages":"4-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22174314","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":"Cultural borrowing and sharing: aboriginal bush medicine in practice.","authors":"J Ralph-Flint","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory continue to approach health related issues by integrating traditional and modern lifestyles and sharing information.</p>","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"8 1","pages":"43-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142781973","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":"Code of ethics: assistance with a lie choice?","authors":"A G Tuckett","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nurses are often confronted with clinical situations demanding a decision to respond either by telling the truth or by deceiving. Nurses are not unique in this regard. However, nurses are expected to act within an ethos of care cognisant of duty, the right and the good. In order to be guided through such a dilemma nurses may reasonably ask for some clear and helpful statements to assist with that practice. This paper examines the Code of Ethics for Nurses in Australia for some such statements.</p>","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"5 2","pages":"36-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21294062","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":"Putting the holy back in to paediatrics.","authors":"T Walker","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"5 2","pages":"51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21294066","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":"Revealing common ground: comparing themes in traditional natural medicine and holistic nursing.","authors":"P McCabe","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper explores three systems of natural medicine, our understanding of health, healing and disease processes and provides a description of a set of principles to assist integrating complementary therapies into nursing practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"5 2","pages":"41-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21294063","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":"Natural and complementary therapy utilisation on the north coast of NSW.","authors":"S Kermode, S Myers, L Ramsay","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The use of natural and complementary therapies in Australia seems to be increasing. There is an emerging body of literature which describes the prevalence and patterns of usage of such therapies. This paper reports the findings of a telephone survey of 645 residents of the North Coast of New South Wales which set out to describe the prevalence and patterns of use of natural and complementary therapies in the region.</p>","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"5 2","pages":"7-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21294057","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}