Nurse-Patient Interaction: A Resource for Hope in Cognitively Intact Nursing Home Patients 14 Aug 2013 | 03:08 am

Background: Nursing home care increasingly targets those elderly with the greatest needs in terms of personal daily activities, whereas services supporting spiritual needs such as hope tend to be igno...

The Effect of a Preoperative Spiritual/Religious Intervention on Anxiety in Shia Muslim Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: A Ra... 14 Aug 2013 | 03:08 am

Background: Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is associated with anxiety. Preoperative anxiety is considered a predictor for a range of suboptimal postsurgical outcomes. Objective: To evaluate th...

Holistic Nurses' Stories of Personal Healing 14 Aug 2013 | 03:08 am

The purpose of this study was to uncover the nature, experiences, and meaning of personal healing for holistic nurses through their narrative accounts. The study employed a qualitative descriptive des...

The Lived Experience of Anxiety Among Late Adolescents During High School: An Interpretive Phenomenological Inquiry 14 Aug 2013 | 03:08 am

Purpose: To gain an understanding of everyday anxiety among late adolescents during high school. Design: An interpretive phenomenological approach was utilized. A purposive sample of eight males and f...

The Lived Experience of Anxiety Among Late Adolescents During High School: An Interpretive Phenomenological Inquiry 14 Aug 2013 | 03:08 am

The Medicine of the Manuka: An Investigation of the Usages and Methods for Utilization of Honey Derived From the Pollen of Leptospermum scoparium in H... 14 Aug 2013 | 03:08 am

As nursing moves into the next paradigm of health care, there is an increasing shift toward integrative health care that is founded on the integration of traditional or complementary medicines alongsi...

Energy Dialogue Technique in Healing and Health: Relieving Side Effects and Thyroid Dysfunction in a Male With Hemophilia Receiving Pegylated Interfer... 14 Aug 2013 | 03:08 am

This article describes the use of energy dialogue technique (EDT), a healing intervention that provides awareness of imbalances in the energetic field that affect patients’ health and guide the practi...

Spirituality Measurement in African American Cancer Survivors: A Critical Literature Review 14 Aug 2013 | 03:08 am

Purpose: Spirituality is a mechanism that supports coping with chronic illnesses such as cancer, and has been frequently used in the African American (AA) population. Measures of spirituality are need...

Continuing Education for: "The Role of Transcendence in a Holistic View of Successful Aging: A Concept Analysis and Model of Transcendence in Maturati... 15 May 2013 | 02:00 am

A Retrospective Pattern Analysis 15 May 2013 | 02:00 am

The purpose of this article was to explore the application of pattern analysis retrospectively to a 2-year relationship between me and a young mother of a small child with spina bifida. Five patterns ...