Holistic Nursing Research 

Holistic nurses believe that healing results in restoring, discovering and/or recognizing one’s inherent wholeness.  This sense of wholeness can occur even in the face of illness, injury, and death. Within a philosophy of holism value is given to the concept of care, presence, intuition, comfort, intentionality, love, and compassion as well as spiritual recovery and quality of life inherent in providing quality nursing care. These concepts as well as the interventions that support these values need exploration to understand refine and clarify how they support the healing process. Various ways of providing practice based evidence that support our belief that Holistic care can, and should, be integrated into all forms of health care are needed. Holistic Nursing Research develops knowledge and assists in providing the evidence base needed to transform health care into holistic care.  This requires dedication to creating and fostering resources that assist in creating, interpreting and conducting holistic research.

We believe that all holistic nurses participate in research.  Research activity can include posing questions, systematically collecting information to answer those questions, and implementing the results. 

Research News Request for Proposals AHNA invites you to submit proposals for the 2011 Annual Conference, Holistic Nursing: Tending to the Sacred Flow of Life. Proposals will be accepted until September 8, 2010 (Poster abstracts will be accepted until December 1, 2010).   All forms and guidelines for proposal submissions are available by clicking here. Research Grant Winners Congratulations to the 2010 AHNA Research Grant recipients: Barbara Vincensi PhD(c) was awarded a grant for researching Spiritual Care in Nurse Practitioner Practice and Kathy Cino PhD(c) received a grant to study Aromatherapy Hand Massage for Older Adults with Chronic Pain Living in Long-Term Care.  Help Us Grow Our Database In an effort to collect information about the research and scholarly expertise in our association we are asking you to provide us with updated information on your research and scholarly activities. Thank you for completing the following information which will help us develop our data bank of resources for potential consultation and for developing our web library.  Please complete this survey and return to info@ahna.org