Possible Outcomes of Holistic Nursing Interventions

Developing holistic nursing interventions to improve adolescent health.

Adolescents learn health behaviors in a sociocultural context of community, family, and peers. Although many adolescents engage in behaviors that protect and promote health, others engage in behaviors that threaten or compromise their health. The purpose of this review article is to provide an overview of health-risk behaviors and the morbidities and mortalities of adolescence that are related ...

Alternative Nursing Interventions for Facilitating Holistic Nursing based on Eastern Philosophy

Technological advances and economic, social, and cultural conditions have created a climate of change in the health care arena. The re-emergence of the holistic health care paradigms has begun to induce a revolution in the health care system. New roles and approaches are developing in relation to the holistic health movement. Since holistic thinking is diverse, an introduction among eastern phi...

Relationship of nursing diagnoses, nursing outcomes, and nursing interventions for patient care in intensive care units

The purpose of the study was to identify NANDA I diagnoses, NOC outcomes, and NIC interventions used in nursing care plans for ICU patient care and determine the factors which influenced the change of the NOC outcome scores. This study was a retrospective and descriptive study using clinical data extracted from the electronic patient records of a large acute care hospital in the Midwest. Freque...

Nursing Theory in Holistic Nursing Practice

Concept: An abstract idea or notion. Conceptual model: A group of interrelated concepts described to suggest relationships among them. Framework: A basic structure; the context in which theory is developed; the structure that permits theory to be understood. Grand theory: A theory that covers a broad area of the discipline’s concerns. Metaparadigm: Concepts that identify the domain of a discipl...

The Spirit of Holistic Nursing