title: Holistic Nurses' Use of Energy-Based Caring Modalities.
abstract: As part of a study of a larger study of self-identified holistic nurses, researchers asked nurses to describe practice situations where energy-based modalities (EBMs) were used. Four hundred and twenty-four nurses responded by writing free-text responses on an online survey tool. The participants were highly educated and very experienced with 42% holding graduate degrees and 77% having over 21 years of practice. Conventional content analysis revealed four themes: EMBs are 1) caring modalities used to treat a wide range of identified nursing concerns; 2) implemented across the life span and to facilitate life transitions; 3) support care for the treatment of specific medical conditions; and 4) Use of EBMs transcend labels of 'conditions' and are used within a holistic framework. The fourth theme reveals a shared vision of nursing work such that the modality becomes secondary and the need to address the 'whole' at an energetic level emerges as the primary focus of holistic nursing.
authors: University of Victoria.
authors: Noreen
authors: N
authors: Frisch
authors: The University of Iowa.
authors: Howard K
authors: HK
authors: Butcher
authors: University of Victoria.
authors: Diana
authors: D
authors: Campbell
authors: NANDA International.
authors: Dickon
authors: D
authors: Weir-Hughes
mesh_terms: D004735:Energy Transfer; D018939:Holistic Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology; D036301:Qualitative Research
keywords: energy-based therapies/energy work; nursing diagnosis; nursing practice