2. DEFINITION
Holistic nursing is generally defined as
“all nursing practice that has healing the whole person
as its goal”.
(American Holistic Nurses’ Association, 1998)
3. TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
• The goal of health care and nursing is to decrease the physical
disturbances caused by person’s illness.
4. HOLISTIC NURSING PRACTICE
• This practice recognizes the
totality of the human being
---- body, mind, emotion,
and spirit
• Each of these are
interrelated and
interconnected.
Body
Mind
Emotion
Spirit
5. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRADITIONAL AND
HOLISTIC PRACTICE
Traditional Holistic
• Treatment of symptoms
• Emphasis on efficiency
• Professional should be emotionally
neutral
• Primary intervention with drugs,
surgery
• Search for patterns and cause plus
treatment of symptom
• Emphasis of human values
• Professional’s caring is a component of
healing
• Minimal intervention with appropriate
technology, noninvasive
6. Traditional Holistic
• Emphasis on eliminating symptoms
and disease
• Patient is dependent
• Professional is the authority
• Mind is secondary factor in physical
illness
• Emphasis on achieving maximum
body-mind health
• Patients is autonomous
• Professional is therapeutic partner
• Mind is primary factor in all illness
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRADITIONAL AND
HOLISTIC PRACTICE
7. • In addition to traditional medicine (allopathy), holistic
practice uses Complementary and Alternative Medicines.
8. • Alternative therapy refers to one that is utilized instead of
conventional treatment. E.g. Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Unani
• Complementary implies a therapy used along with a
conventional one. E.g. Yoga, Meditation, Music therapy,
Mind-body intervention, energy therapy, aromatherapy,
acupressure, reflexology, diet and nutrition.
11. PROBLEM ORIENTED APPROACH
• First proposed by Lawrence Weed as Problem Oriented
Medical Record.
• A system of managing patients based on the recognition of
the patient’s problems done for planning the treatment
program.
12. • A patient’s total medical situation is summarized by a
complete list of problems.
• A problem-oriented structure requires that all nurses should
record each plan of care according to each problem of the
patient.
13. PURPOSES
• Documenting evidence of nursing process.
• Speed up retrieval of information about patient at a later
time.
• Give more importance to patient’s progress in documentation
• Facilitating patient care.
15. Database
• Data is taken from the patients.
• Same data obtained from all patients using a given format.
Problem formulation
• A problem is stated.
• It should be supported by data.
E.g. voiding every 1 – 2 hours to describe urinary frequency.
• Each problem is numbered and written on the problem list on the
front of the chart.
16. Plans
• Development of plan of management for
each problem.
• The plan consists of: diagnostic plan,
therapeutic plan and patient education plan.
Follow-up
• The responses of the patient to his care
are recorded.