title: Creating a healing environment.
abstract: This article provides an exploratory discussion of what constitutes a healing environment in a perioperative setting, including how technology may support or interfere with patient healing. The need for maintaining a patient-centered focus is emphasized. Using reflective imaging to discover ways to appropriately tailor the environment to meet each patient's needs is proposed.
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina at Greensboro School of Nursing, USA.
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Bartol
mesh_terms: D006272:Health Facility Environment; D018939:Holistic Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D012931:Social Environment