BACKGROUND In order for nursing education to prepare nurses for holistic patient care, it is critical that educators become more aware of the religious and spiritual dimensions in patient care and be able to provide adequate knowledge and skills for nurses to offer spiritually-based care in an ethical way. Furthermore, spiritual care is an essential component in the nursing context, as nurses h...

Domestic violence is of special concern to nurses, as they are often the first health care professionals to interact with battered women. The purpose of this study was to explore and describe nurses' attitudes toward the survivors and perpetrators of domestic violence. A holistic ecological health promotion framework guided this qualitative investigation. Thirteen participants expert in the car...

Palliative care, defined broadly as a holistic approach to care for patients with progressive and advanced disease with limited prospects for long‐term survival (World Health Organization, 2008), confronts a number of formidable policy obstacles and challenges to its development in the U.S. Included among them are inadequate access, fragmented delivery systems, inadequate financing mechanisms, ...

CONTEXT At present, there is no widely used systematic evidence-based holistic approach to assessment of patients' supportive and palliative care needs. OBJECTIVES To determine whether the use of a holistic needs assessment questionnaire, Sheffield Profile for Assessment and Referral for Care (SPARC), will lead to improved health care outcomes for patients referred to a palliative care servic...

background and purpose: based on a holistic model of health care, human beings have biological, psychological, social and spiritual dimensions, which should be considered in the provision of comprehensive care. given the fact that spiritual health coordinates different aspects of human life, we aimed to explore the viewpoints of nurses working in intensive care units about the concept of spirit...

INTRODUCTION Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) is a fairly new role in the Swedish health care system. AIM To describe patients' experiences of health care provided by an APN in primary health care. METHODS An inductive, descriptive qualitative approach with qualitative open-ended interviews was chosen to obtain descriptions from 10 participants regarding their experiences of health care provid...