PMID: 18402420Apr 12, 2008Paper

A concept analysis of holistic nursing care in paediatric nursing

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A A Tjale, J Bruce

Abstract

Holistic nursing care is widely advocated and is espoused in the philosophy of the South African Nursing Council. This concept is unclear, variously interpreted and poorly understood in paediatric nursing. This study was undertaken to examine the meaning of holistic nursing care and to develop a framework for holistic nursing care, which can be utilised in nurse education settings and in clinical nursing practice in the context of paediatric nursing. A qualitative, interpretive, explorative and contextual research design was used. An evolutionary concept analysis was undertaken to clarify the concept "holistic nursing care" in paediatric nursing in three Johannesburg hospitals. Rodgers' (1989, 2000) evolutionary method was utilised to analyse the concept. The study objectives were formulated in two phases to: --Conduct an analysis of the concept "holistic nursing care" --Obtain an emic viewpoint of holistic nursing care from paediatric nurses working in the academic hospitals. --Identify the characteristics and dimensions of "holistic nursing care" and develop a framework of holistic nursing care for paediatric nurses working in the academic hospitals. Attributes of holistic nursing care yielded two dimensions; whole person and...Continue Reading

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Nov 16, 2012·Journal of Nursing Management·Therese Connell Meehan
Apr 10, 2014·International nursing review·M RamezaniA Kazemnejad
Dec 4, 2015·Holistic Nursing Practice·Emmerentia du Plessis
Oct 10, 2019·Journal of Holistic Nursing : Official Journal of the American Holistic Nurses' Association·Katherine Louise CooperKathleen Dixon
Nov 28, 2017·Journal of Holistic Nursing : Official Journal of the American Holistic Nurses' Association·April A BiceMatthew J Devereaux

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