Paired practica as a pedagogical process in holistic nursing curriculum development.

Nurses have long advocated for significant transformations in the way that care is offered. Among advanced holistic nursing programs, there are no particular models for developing curricula and practica. This article describes a pedagogical process of a holistic health assessment as a context for paired practica of graduate and undergraduate nursing students to simultaneously engage in knowledge discovery.

Pursuing meaning and purpose in life among Thai adolescents living with HIV: a grounded theory study.

This grounded theory study aimed to understand how Thai adolescents living with HIV pursued meaning and purpose in life. Data were gathered from 11 adolescents in southern Thailand who were between ages 18 and 20 years, and who had lived with HIV for 2 or more years. Purposive and theoretical sampling techniques were used to recruit the participants.

The covered wagon journey: student chronicles in advanced holistic nursing.

This article recounts the experiences of a first cohort of graduate students in a newly implemented advanced holistic nursing (AHN) track, one of only a handful in the nation, and the first in Florida. The increasing popularity of complementary and alternative healing processes represents the insufficiency of a health system of fragmented care and a desire for holistic healing that is beyond mainstream allopathic care. Graduate holistic nurse education equips nurses to explore the commitment needed to advance the evolution of health care.

Curriculum as environment: a focus group study.

Curricula development is critical for the advancement and evolution of holistic nursing education. Although the American Holistic Nurses Association offers advanced practice board certification for graduate nurses, there is a scarcity of available graduate holistic nursing courses and curricula. The researchers developed a curriculum for an advanced holistic nursing program at a university college of nursing in South Florida.

Creating a graduate holistic nursing program.

In Spring 2010, an innovative Master of Science in Holistic Nursing track was launched in as the realization of a vision for graduate holistic nursing held by the faculty of the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing in Palm Beach County. As 1 of 6 such tracks in the nation and the only holistic master's program in Florida, there were few guideposts to lead the way.

Altering the acid/alkaline balance of water via the use of an intention-host device.

Background: The research presented in this article has satisfactorily followed the earlier protocols of the last 2 authors and has successfully replicated their earlier work, which utilized an intention-host device to increase the pH of highly purified water in equilibrium with air by approximately +1 pH units at room temperature with no intentional chemical additions.

Methods: In addition, the present experimental research, by the first 2 authors, breaks important new ground by revealing examples of both (1) different time-dependent pH-profiles than found in the earlier work and (2) a very nontraditional order of chemical-like reaction kinetics than has heretofore been observed.

Conclusions: The time-dependence behavior of these reaction sequences support the hypothesis that such intention-host devices can produce a significant measure of coupling between two uniquely different, and normally noninteracting, levels of physical reality that exhibit a reciprocal-type of substance behavior.

Gleaning wisdom in the research on caring.

Light is the metaphor for wisdom; we seek and turn toward light as we seek and reach for wisdom, personally and professionally. The purpose of human life is, as Jung noted, kindling the light of meaning to illuminate the darkness. Nursing caring, focusing on the wholeness of persons regardless of life experiences, events, or circumstances, is intimately bound with wisdom, acquired both professionally and personally.

Oncology nursing education: teaching strategies that work.

Faculty at a university school of nursing developed an innovative oncology nursing elective designed to enhance baccalaureate students' knowing and aesthetic appreciation of persons living with cancer. Following completion of the course, students rank ordered class activities they felt would help them most in their nursing careers. Students chose the cancer survivor interview first, followed by a seminar on spirituality and a clinical inquiry project.