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- This paper examines the significance of storytelling in healing practices across various cultural medical systems, including Latino/Hispanic, Native American, and Homeopathy traditions.
- It also reviews the existing literature on storytelling within nursing and medical fields, highlighting its relevance in holistic nursing practices.
- The authors emphasize the importance for holistic nurses to understand storytelling's role in different healthcare systems to improve collaboration between cultural practices and Western Medicine, enhancing the overall healing experience for patients and caregivers.
Article Abstract
This paper explores the role of story for healing. Specifically, this paper describes story and healing in cultural or whole medical systems, including Latino/Hispanic traditions, Native American/Indigenous traditions, and Homeopathy. In addition, the authors provide a brief overview of story and healing in the nursing and medical literature, and evaluate the value of story in our current practice as holistic nurses. It is important for the holistic nurse to be aware of the role of stories for healing in diverse systems of healthcare. This awareness can help bridge the knowledge gap between cultural or whole medical systems and Western Medicine, thus optimizing the healing environment for the patient, nurse, and other providers of care.
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