title: The holistic paradigm in nursing: the diffusion of an innovation.
abstract: Nursing today is affected by challenges to the beliefs and values underlying the delivery of health care services. Results of a bibliometric analysis of the nursing literature since 1966 revealed a process of paradigm change in which a scientific medical model is being replaced by a model based on the concept of holism. Key ideas representing a holistic paradigm of health appear with increasing frequency in the journals of the nursing field, demonstrating the diffusion of a new and different perspective in the practice of nursing.
authors.affiliation: St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN.
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D003142:Communication; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010506:Periodicals as Topic