Awakening the nurse healer within.
Nurses help individuals, families, groups, and communities promote health, reduce health-risking behavior, increase self-care management skills, and facilitate personal growth toward wholeness of mind, body, and spirit. To care for others and to promote health and well-being, nurses must first understand the role of healer and second practice personal care. The article provides a framework for both understanding the role of healer and engendering self-care and healing by introducing methods to care for ourselves, acknowledging the importance of knowledgeable and compassionate caregiving, and creating a vision for the future of health care and nursing.
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D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D012648:Self Care / Q000523:psychology*