Holistic Care in Advanced Practice Nursing

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Holistic health is about caring for the whole person — providing for your physical, mental, spiritual, and social needs. It’s rooted in the understanding that all these aspects affect your overall health, and being unwell in one part affects you in others. (Adimando, 2017). Holistic providers empower you with the education and motivation to make better choices. Rather than suggesting a long list of lifestyle changes, they include you in the conversation and help you determine which changes would make the most significant impact on your health. They allow patients to set wellness goals and provide them with resources, whether a personalized plan or a referral to a specialist. Holistic care honors the mind-body connection and treating the whole person using a variety of clinically proven therapies (Adimando, 2017). Finally, it’s about developing a solid relationship with a doctor committed to getting you healthy and keeping you that way. The fundamental care functions of the health care establishment are to protect and enhance health, prevent diseases and relieve pain (Joel, 2018). When a person’s health or life threatens illness, that person is likely to seek treatment with both physical symptoms and spiritual issues in mind. Health care providers are more likely to enhance the individual’s health holistically when health defines harmony between mind, body, and spirit. Pay attention to the whole person, not just the current presenting symptoms, illness, crisis, or tasks to be accomplished. Whole-health nursing entails considering and then assisting patients with the effects of disease on the body, mind, emotions, spirituality, and personal relationships (Adimando, 2017). When trust is present in the provider-patient relationship, a care plan can be co-created with the patient, and consideration can be given and received. In addition, each patient’s subjective experience about health, health beliefs, and values was explored and incorporated into the plan (Joel, 2018). 

 

Adimando, A. (2017). Preventing and alleviating compassion fatigue through self-care: An educational workshop for Nurses. Journal of Holistic Nursing, 36(4), 304–317. https://doi.org/10.1177/0898010117721581

 

Joel, L.A. (2018). Advanced practice nursing. Essentials for role development (4th Ed.). Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis