%0 Journal Article
%T Holistic Nurses¡¯ Use of Energy
%A Diana Campbell
%A Dickon Weir-Hughes
%A Howard K. Butcher
%A Noreen Frisch
%J Journal of Holistic Nursing
%@ 1552-5724
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0898010116665447
%X As part of a study of a larger study of self-identified holistic nurses, researchers asked nurses to describe practice situations where energy-based modalities (EBMs) were used. Four hundred and twenty-four nurses responded by writing free-text responses on an online survey tool. The participants were highly educated and very experienced with 42% holding graduate degrees and 77% having over 21 years of practice. Conventional content analysis revealed four themes: EMBs are 1) caring modalities used to treat a wide range of identified nursing concerns; 2) implemented across the life span and to facilitate life transitions; 3) support care for the treatment of specific medical conditions; and 4) Use of EBMs transcend labels of ¡®conditions¡¯ and are used within a holistic framework. The fourth theme reveals a shared vision of nursing work such that the modality becomes secondary and the need to address the ¡®whole¡¯ at an energetic level emerges as the primary focus of holistic nursing
%K nursing practice
%K energy-based therapies/energy work
%K nursing diagnosis
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0898010116665447