Holistic Nursing Care - A Concept Analysis
Avila, Ehvone (2021)
2021
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2021120323537
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2021120323537
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Providing holistic nursing care is essential in healthcare as it demonstrates the approaches and interventions that influence the overall degree of satisfaction in healthcare. Despite the ambiguousness and disregard for having one exact definition, holistic nursing care is widely used in healthcare.
This study aims to disintegrate the concept of holistic nursing care using concept analysis to provide clarity as well as to search for the responses to the research questions, “What are the defining attributes of holistic nursing care?” and “Can the defined attributes represent holistic nursing care?”
Avant & Walkers’ 8-stage approach was selected for conducting the concept analysis of holistic nursing care. In obtaining more straightforward results together with having a simpler approach, the stages of Avant & Walker’s approach were remodelled and modified into a 5-stage approach.
With the help of the concept analysis in combination with the theoretical framework, a detailed disintegration of holistic nursing care provided an enhanced understanding of the concepts, which also contributed to responding to the research questions. The study concluded the improved understanding of holistic nursing care offers nurses the nursing knowledge needed to apply and implement holistic nursing care with a higher degree of efficacy. Thus, further research and study are suggested to provide extensive knowledge in enhanced understanding of holistic nursing care.
This study aims to disintegrate the concept of holistic nursing care using concept analysis to provide clarity as well as to search for the responses to the research questions, “What are the defining attributes of holistic nursing care?” and “Can the defined attributes represent holistic nursing care?”
Avant & Walkers’ 8-stage approach was selected for conducting the concept analysis of holistic nursing care. In obtaining more straightforward results together with having a simpler approach, the stages of Avant & Walker’s approach were remodelled and modified into a 5-stage approach.
With the help of the concept analysis in combination with the theoretical framework, a detailed disintegration of holistic nursing care provided an enhanced understanding of the concepts, which also contributed to responding to the research questions. The study concluded the improved understanding of holistic nursing care offers nurses the nursing knowledge needed to apply and implement holistic nursing care with a higher degree of efficacy. Thus, further research and study are suggested to provide extensive knowledge in enhanced understanding of holistic nursing care.