Should nurses practice therapeutic touch? Should nursing schools teach therapeutic touch? .
This article argues that in the current setting of nursing practice, therapeutic touch should be treated as a religious practice. The article examines the religious sources of the ideas and documents the connection with the teachings of particular religious groups. Recognizing therapeutic touch as a religious issue requires new kinds of approaches in the practice and teaching of therapeutic touch in nursing.
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D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D018939:Holistic Nursing; D006801:Humans; D011364:Professional Practice / Q000592:standards*; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012579:Schools, Nursing; D019124:Therapeutic Touch / Q000451:nursing* / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States