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Holistic Self-Care Strategies for Nurses

 

  • Holistic Nursing Self-Care Strategies

    Holistic Nursing Self-Care Strategies

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  • Holistic Stress Management for Nurses

    Holistic Stress Management for Nurses

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  • Are You Feeling Burned Out?

    Are You Feeling Burned Out?

    Nursing is both a demanding and rewarding profession.

    Often our greatest challenge is showing love and patience in the face of adversity, suffering, and pain.
    The emotional demands of nursing, coupled by inadequate staffing ratios, increasingly medically complex patients, coupled with risks to staff and client safety, are a perfect environment for nurse burnout and moral fatigue.  

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Orme-Johnson, D. W., Barnes, V. A. (2013). Effects of the Transcendental Meditation technique on trait anxiety: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Journal of Alternative Complementary Medicine, 19(0), 1-12.

Perkins, Aquino-Russell (2017) Graduate Nurses Experience the Sacred During Transcendental Meditation®. International Journal for Human Caring: 2017, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 163-171.

Perkins, J., & Aquino-Russell, C. (2021). Practicing transcendence in meditation speeds nurses’ evolutionary development: Shining the light of “consciousness” through the lens of Unitary Human Caring Science. Visions: The Journal of Rogerian Nursing Science, 26(4), 1-2

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