Delivering Mental Health Services to OEF/OIF Veterans: A VHA Qualitative Study
Conclusions: Capturing provider perspectives within MH services suggest potential areas for innovation aimed at providing patient-centered care to this cohort of veterans. Results may also inform future work aimed at meeting the needs of both OEF/OIF veterans and MH providers. (Source: Journal of Holistic Nursing)
Source: Journal of Holistic Nursing - July 31, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Signoracci, G. M., Bahraini, N. H., Matarazzo, B. B., Olson-Madden, J. H., Brenner, L. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
The Cultural Relevance of Mindfulness Meditation as a Health Intervention for African Americans: Implications for Reducing Stress-Related Health Disparities
This study explored the cultural relevance of mindfulness meditation training for African Americans adults. Fifteen African American adults with past or current experience with mindfulness meditation training were interviewed. Participants felt that mindfulness meditation helped them with enhanced stress management, direct health improvement, and enhanced self-awareness and purposefulness. They felt that they would recommend it and that other African Americans would be open to the practice but suggested that its presentation may need to be adapted. They suggested emphasizing the health benefits, connecting it to familiar s...
Source: Journal of Holistic Nursing - July 31, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Woods-Giscombe, C. L., Gaylord, S. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Continuing Caritas Journey--Reflections Upon a Shared Private Pilgrimage
This manuscript is a continuing saga of an earlier walking pilgrimage (El Camino in northern Spain): now a journey to Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet, this time with others instead of alone. As I journeyed in close company with five others we experienced and expressed surprises about our selves and each other—our shared vulnerability, tolerance, and humility—uncovering lessons in living Caritas.
As I trekked through these inner and outer adventures, Bhutan was discovered as a light of hope—a living metaphor of a people and a culture that hold and practice Caritas principles of loving—kindness, compassion, ...
Source: Journal of Holistic Nursing - July 31, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Watson, J. Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
Strategies for Sustaining Self Used by Family Caregivers for Older Adults With Dementia
The negative health consequences of caring for an older adult family member with dementia are well documented. However, not all family caregivers experience these negative health consequences. The purposes of this study were to describe strategies family caregivers use to help them continue to provide care for an older family member with dementia despite challenges and describe these family caregivers’ resilience and psychological distress. A mixed methods design was used with a narrative approach dominant and standardized scales for resilience and psychological distress used to enhance the description of the sample....
Source: Journal of Holistic Nursing - May 6, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Bull, M. J. Tags: Mixed Methods Research Source Type: research
A Legacy Building Model for Holistic Nursing
This pilot project was an effort to record the historical roots, development, and legacy of holistic nursing through the visionary spirit of four older American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) members. The aim was twofold: (a) to capture the holistic nursing career experiences of elder AHNA members and (b) to begin to create a Legacy Building Model for Holistic Nursing. The narratives will help initiate an ongoing, systematic method for the collection of historical data and serve as a perpetual archive of knowledge and inspiration for present and future holistic nurses. An aesthetic inquiry approach was used to conduct ...
Source: Journal of Holistic Nursing - May 6, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Lange, B., Zahourek, R. P., Mariano, C. Tags: Aesthetics Source Type: research
Importance of Spiritual Care for Cardiac Patients Admitted to Coronary Care Units in the Gaza Strip: Patients' Perception
Conclusions: Assessing and providing spiritual care is crucial to cardiac patients. Therefore, health policy makers need to pay more attention to this group of vulnerable patients and need to adopt a spiritual care policy into the Palestinian health care system, which might help to decrease their stress, length of hospitalization, and the cost of treatment. (Source: Journal of Holistic Nursing)
Source: Journal of Holistic Nursing - May 6, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Abu-El-Noor, M. K., Abu-El-Noor, N. I. Tags: Quantitative Research Source Type: research
Spirituality in Men With Advanced Prostate Cancer: "It's a Holistic Thing . . . It's a Package"
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Source: Journal of Holistic Nursing - May 6, 2014 Category: Nursing Tags: Continuing Nursing Education Source Type: research
Spirituality in Men With Advanced Prostate Cancer: "It's a Holistic Thing . . . It's a Package"
Spirituality is often regarded as being helpful during an unwell person’s journey but definitions of the concept can be confusing, and its use synonymously with religion can be misleading. This research sought to answer the question, "What is the nature of spirituality in men with advanced prostate cancer," and to discover the role spirituality may have in these men as they face the challenges of living with their disease. A qualitative approach and narrative method was used to explore the spirituality of nine men with advanced prostate cancer who volunteered to participate and to tell the story of their cancer journ...
Source: Journal of Holistic Nursing - May 6, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Lepherd, L. Tags: Qualitative Research Source Type: research
A Transpersonal Approach to Care: A Qualitative Study of Performers' Experiences With DooR to DooR, a Hospital-Based Arts Program
The arts have a history of relaxing and calming patients in the hospital setting, yet research is limited on how arts may aid in the healing process. DooR to DooR was established to bring comfort, respite, and healing to hospitalized patients, family members, and health care staff. DooR to DooR is located in the University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill, North Carolina; professional performing artists visit there, spending 5 to 10 minutes with each patient, family member, and health care staff. The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand performers’ experiences and of how arts-based programs ca...
Source: Journal of Holistic Nursing - May 6, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Hurdle, C. E., Quinlan, M. M. Tags: Qualitative Research Source Type: research
"I Am a Nice Person When I Do Yoga!!!": A Qualitative Analysis of How Yoga Affects Relationships
Conclusions: There appears to be an aspect of community associated with yoga practice that may be beneficial to one’s social and spiritual health. Yoga could be beneficial for populations at risk for social isolation, such as those who are elderly, bereaved, and depressed, as well as individuals undergoing interpersonal crises. (Source: Journal of Holistic Nursing)
Source: Journal of Holistic Nursing - May 6, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Ross, A., Bevans, M., Friedmann, E., Williams, L., Thomas, S. Tags: Qualitative Research Source Type: research
Associate Editors to Retire
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Source: Journal of Holistic Nursing - May 6, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Cowling, W. R. Tags: Announcement Source Type: research
The Future of the Journal
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Source: Journal of Holistic Nursing - May 6, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Cowling, W. R. Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
The Feasibility of a Holistic Wellness Program for HIV/AIDS Patients Residing in a Voluntary Inpatient Treatment Program
The purpose of this project was to examine the feasibility of an ongoing holistic wellness program in a residential facility treating persons with HIV/AIDS. The goal was to create a voluntary, four week holistic wellness intensive within the established inpatient behavioral health treatment program. Participants were given practicable holistic self care tools to effectively manage HIV related symptoms, general medical issues, addiction, depression, stress and anxiety. The program incorporated evidence-based holistic activities including yoga, therapeutic dance, meditation, Reiki, and reflective journaling. Narrative survey...
Source: Journal of Holistic Nursing - January 29, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Morgan, V. Tags: Practice Source Type: research
Leadership Lessons in Global Nursing and Health From The Nightingale Letter Collection at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
This article analyzes the components of Florence Nightingale’s visionary leadership for global health and nursing within the historical context of Great Britain’s colonization of India. The descriptive study used the qualitative approach of narrative analysis to analyze selected letters in the Nightingale Letter Collection at the University of Alabama at Birmingham that Nightingale wrote to or about Dr. Thomas Gillham Hewlett, a physician and health officer in Bombay, India. The authors sought to increase understanding of Nightingale’s visionary leadership for global nursing and health through a study of ...
Source: Journal of Holistic Nursing - January 29, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Harper, D. C., Davey, K. S., Fordham, P. N. Tags: Qualitative Research Source Type: research
Stories of Liminality: Living With Life-Threatening Illness
Conclusions: Over time, living with a life-threatening illness produces complex and paradoxical experiences that do not easily fit within familiar categories of experience. Findings highlight pervasive liminal experiences as in-between narratives that are neither problematic nor need to be resolved, and endure over time. (Source: Journal of Holistic Nursing)
Source: Journal of Holistic Nursing - January 29, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Bruce, A., Sheilds, L., Molzahn, A., Beuthin, R., Schick-Makaroff, K., Shermak, S. Tags: Qualitative Research Source Type: research
