Reconnecting to nursing through Reiki.

Reiki and its journey into a hospital setting.

There is a growing interest among health care providers, especially professional nurses to promote caring-healing approaches in patient care and self-care. Health care environments are places of human caring and holistic nurses are helping to lead the way that contemporary health care institutions must become holistic places of healing. The practice of Reiki as well as other practices can assis...

An integral nursing education experience: outcomes from a BSN Reiki course.

Reiki is a hands-on healing modality that is practiced to support patients' healing process at more than 800 hospitals in the United States. This article explores the educational outcomes of an RN-BSN Reiki course as an aspect of an integral-holistic curriculum experience.

Reiki as a clinical intervention in oncology nursing practice.

Oncology nurses and their patients are frequently on the cutting edge of new therapies and interventions that support coping, health, and healing. Reiki is a practice that is requested with increasing frequency, is easy to learn, does not require expensive equipment, and in preliminary research, elicits a relaxation response and helps patients to feel more peaceful and experience less pain. Tho...

Effects of Reiki on Pain, Anxiety, and Blood Pressure in Patients Undergoing Knee Replacement: A Pilot Study.

This blinded, controlled pilot study investigated the effects of Reiki on 46 patients undergoing knee replacement surgery. Of the 3 groups, Reiki, Sham Reiki, and Standard of Care, only the Reiki group showed significant reductions in pain, blood pressure, respiration rate, and state anxiety, which provides evidence for a full-scale clinical study.

What are the distinctions between Reiki and therapeutic touch?