title: Promoting caring-healing relationships: bringing healing touch to the bedside in a multihospital health system.
abstract: New legislative mandates, evaluation metrics, and patient demand have led acute care organizations to expand their patient-centered care model to include the use of complementary therapies. One multihospital health system is offering Healing Touch training to nurses who will provide Healing Touch to self, colleagues, and patients, promoting a caring-healing consciousness.
authors.affiliation: Inova Learning Network, Alexandria, Virginia (Mss Swengros Herbst), Inova, Falls Church, Virginia (Dr Friesen); Handcrafted Health, LLC, Silver Spring, Maryland (Ms Mangione); and Center for the Study of Complementary and Alternative Therapies, University of Virginia School of Nursing, Charlottesville, Virginia (Dr Anderson).
authors.forename: Diane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Swengros
authors.forename: Anna M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Herbst
authors.forename: Mary Ann
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Friesen
authors.forename: Lucrezia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mangione
authors.forename: Joel G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Anderson
mesh_terms: D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000379:methods*; D004645:Empathy; D018939:Holistic Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000379:methods; D019124:Therapeutic Touch