The holistic nursing movement may be on the cusp of a bifurcation point, with increasing chaos within the health care system leading to a point where new order and new ways of being may readily emerge.1,2This process is related to the greater call to enact a powerful transformation within the health care system, one that will move the nursing profession toward a place where we recognize, and best utilize, the symbiotic nature of humankind-technology-nature-universe.1 The movement toward the paradigm of holism in nursing tends to best recognize the humanistic, caring, healing, and intersubjective nature of nursing, which the dominant nursing paradigm of behaviorism and reductionism has failed to address. Holistic nurses may still be searching for models that will help capture, support, and expand the lived experience of contemporary holistic nursing practice within our current acute care and community settings. This article examines and critiques the current state of holism and healing in nursing as a paradigm. Furthermore, the article explores how the use of an integral approach as a guiding framework for holistic nurses may help both articulate and steer the future of contemporary caring-healing-holistic-sustainable nursing practices.
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Clark, Carey S. PhD, RN
Holistic Nursing Practice:
doi: 10.1097/HNP.0b013e3182462197
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