title: My life as a holistic nurse.
abstract: This article explores a nurse's personal experience with holistic nursing. The author describes aspects of her physical, emotional, and spiritual transformation to foster her own self-care as well as her use of human-to-human interactions and the holistic caring process to create a healing environment for her clients.
authors.affiliation: Southwest Regional Cancer Center, Austin, Texas, USA.
authors.forename: Amy Joy
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D004645:Empathy; D018939:Holistic Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D033262:Narration; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing