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Holistic Nursing and Self-Care
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Holistic Nursing
Defined as all nursing practice that has a goal of healing the whole person.
Focuses on body-spiritual-emotion environment of a person.
It increases the patient’s quality of life.
It promotes holistic student education to the patients.

History and Significance of Holistic Nursing
Introduced by Florence Nightingale in the mid-20th century.
Dossey promoted a theory that explained the function of the inner world of nursing.
The American Holistic Nurses Association was founded in 1980.
The American Holistic Nurses Certification Corporation was founded in 1997
Recognized as a specialty area in 2006.
Ensures that nursing knowledge, expertise, intuition, and theories are used to promote therapeutic care to patients.
It promotes the interconnection between the spirit, mind, and body.

Purpose of Holistic Nursing Core Value 2: Holistic Nurse Self -Reflection, Self-Development, and Self-Care
Enables the patients to identify the best practices to promote their quality of life.
Helps the patients to formulate effective self-care, self-development, and self-reflection plans
To ensure that the patients have a mind, spirit, and body balance.
Enables patients to focus more on prevention rather than treatment of health conditions.

Self-Reflection
The deliberate habit of paying attention to one’s own thoughts, decisions, emotions, and behaviors.
Enables a person to analyze their life at a micro and macro level.
The nurse helps a patient achieve self-reflection
Enables a nurse to ensure that they provide effective care to their patients
Benefits
Allows a person to gain perspective
Helps a person respond effectively
Promotes learning and understanding

Self-Development
Self-development is the deliberate actions to improve oneself in various aspects of life.
It is one of the fields in holistic nursing.
Enables a nurse to develop their knowledge and skills
A holistic nurse practitioner helps clients come up with effective personal development goals and plans
Entails improving
Skills
Talents
Knowledge
Competencies

Self-Care
The deliberate act of promoting one’s mental, social, spiritual, emotional, and physical health.
A holistic nurse should implement self-care strategies for their clients
The nurse should use connectedness to drive the care for their patients and themselves
Use a bio-psycho-social model to formulate a patient treatment.
Enable a nurse to have compassion satisfaction and avoid compassion fatigue
Entails building resilience to the stressors that cannot be eliminated

Compassion Fatigue
Emotional and physical exhaustion leads to diminished ability to feel compassion for others.
The negative cost of caring
Symptoms
Irritability
Chronic physical and emotional exhaustion
Difficulty sleeping
Self-contempt
Impact
Reduced empathy and compassion to patients by nurses
Poor care to patients
Poor self-care, self-development, and self-reflection

Compassion Satisfaction
Pleasure and satisfying feeling that arises after helping others.
Impacts
Higher satisfaction for the patients
Saving time and cost
Promotes a sense of satisfaction and effectiveness for the nurses
This leads to higher confidence
Promotes the effectiveness of holistic nursing
Techniques
Get educated
Practice self-care
Boosting resiliency
Using positive coping mechanisms

Comparison Between Compassion Fatigue and Compassion Satisfaction

Compassion Satisfaction Compassion Fatigue

The positive aspect of helping The negative aspect of helping

This leads to increased job satisfaction This leads to reduced job satisfaction

The positive cost of caring The negative cost of caring

Increased empathy and compassion by nurses Reduced empathy and compassion by nurses

Promotes effectiveness in holistic nursing Reduced the effectiveness of holistic nursing

Promotes patient satisfaction Does not promote patient satisfaction.

Effective care to patients Poor care to patients

Self-Care Techniques
Daily self-care activities
Take a walk
Read an interesting book or magazine
Meditate about the day’s activities
Take five minutes to decompress daily
Weekly self-care activities
Write the week’s goals and objectives to attain
Take a yoga class
Monthly self-care activities
Go for swimming
Take a road trip
Set goals and objectives to attain

Implementation of Self-Care Techniques
To implement the self-care plan a routine on when to do the activities will be written
Time will be set aside to do the activities
Make the first step by beginning the activities
Include roommate in the accountability plan to ensure that all the activities are adhered to.
Working extra shifts could prevent adherence
Unavoidable circumstances such as illnesses would also avoid adherence
Currently, no activities will be eliminated.
The plan will be planned during the free time

Summary
Holistic nursing refers to all nursing practice that has a goal of healing the whole person.
Introduced by Florence Nightingale in the mid-20th century.
Promotes self-reflection, self-care, and self-development
Self-reflection is the deliberate habit of paying attention to one’s own thoughts, decisions, emotions, and behaviors.
Self-care is the deliberate act of promoting one’s mental, social, spiritual, emotional, and physical health.
Self-development is the deliberate actions to improve oneself in various aspects of life.
Compassion fatigue is the emotional and physical exhaustion that leads to diminished ability to feel compassion for others.
Compassion satisfaction is a pleasure and satisfying feeling that arises after helping others.
A self-care plan should be implemented to promote compassion satisfaction.

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