The Trilogy of Health Care: Caring and Healing of the Clinician

Today, more than we are aware of in the history of health services in the United States, is the critical need to reclaim and apply the core values and principles that inspired physicians and nurses to respond to their original call become consolers and healers of the sick and those in distress, and to refocus our attention on the person of the healer. In clinical practice today, we are endowed with enormously effective interventions that were unimaginable only a few decades earlier. In light of the fund of knowledge, clinical competencies, and technological advancements that we bring to bear in our experience in caring for our patients, the learning curve is never flat, never complete, and never static. Newer, safer, and more effective interventions in the cure of illnesses, management to relieve stress, moderate fear of surgery, and to promote healing that often lead to early discharge and return to normal activities of daily living are readily available in clinical practice. Yet, there are looming threats that compromise the person of clinician, for example, dehumanization, consumerism, commodification, and fungeability of the human person. This article will describe the Trilogy of Health Care: Caring and Healing of the Clinician and its application to the care and healing of physicians and nurses as they accompany one another in caring for a world in need of healing and hope.

Illuminating Nursing’s Value: The 12 Anthroposophic Nursing Gestures

Nursing care historically has not been separated from institutional care costs. Organizations seek to quantify nursing care with no assignation of the value or uniqueness of the individual patient–nurse encounter. New models point to measuring care at this level. Nursing care encompasses tangible evidence that can be easy to quantify but, in the paradigm of healing and caring, and more specifically within the knowledge pool of holistic nursing, significant contributions are intangible and thus hard to measure. Anthroposophic nursing’s 12 nursing gestures offer an integration by making intangible nursing practice tangible. They incorporate addressing the whole person and more clearly show the caring and healing aspects of nursing care. Making such intangibles of care tangible contribute to the discussion of nursing value and how it is measured in healthcare organizations. More research is needed, however, to refine and value nursing care to more accurately reflect the connection between caring, healing, and patient outcomes.

Integrative Nursing and Caring Science: Universals of Human Caring and Healing

This chapter uses a disciplinary ontological-ethical matrix analysis to explore the convergence of caring science and integrative nursing. A comprehensive Caring-Healing Praxis Model, consistent with the unitary-transformative perspective and informed by the moral-ethical foundation and language of caring science as well as the universals of healing offered by the principles of integrative nursing, is presented. Informed by a deep moral-ethical philosophical consciousness, the intersection of the universals of healing, made manifest through the principles of integrative nursing and the universals of caring, made manifest through the Caritas Processes, create a unifying language for the ethical, philosophical, ontological foundational structure of nursing praxis.

Movement as a critical concept in model generation to attain wholeness

Movement is an integral aspect of daily living. Movement allows the human being to express, find meaning and reflect a part or the whole of the unfolding of the stories of their lives. The essence of the dialogue is the movement towards caring and healing between the professional nurse and the individual.The purpose of this research is to develop, describe, evaluate and provide guidelines for the operationalisation of a model as a framework of reference for nursing to facilitate the individual faced with mental health challenges as an integral part of wholeness. A model was generated to facilitate the engagement of self through movement, which contributes to and manifests in a mindful way of living to promote mental health as an integral part of wholeness. The findings of the study are applicable to the world of nursing practice, nursing education and research.

A Model to Create a Caring and Healing Environment for Nurses in Child and Family Nursing

The aim of this research was a) to describe the improvement process that allows for the creation of a caring and healing environment that brings changes in nurses, and b) to construct model to create a caring and healing environment for nurses. Participatory action research was conducted in 6 clinical settings of East Japan. The caring and healing environment for nurses was created by redefining the existing problem, disclosing the hidden problems, developing improvement measures, such as opportunity to obtain a new point of view, sharing the experience and thoughts with coworkers, and appraising care.