Nursing As a Spiritual Practice
Subtitle: Contemporary Applicaton of Florence Nightingale's Views
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780826113870
Subjects: Medical research; Nursing; Psychology; Religion: general; Spiritual life; Nursing - Management & Leadership; Nursing Psychology; Religion And Medicine; Medical / Nursing; Religious aspects; Medical; Nursing - Research & Theory; Nursing - General; 1820-1910; Nightingale, Florence,
First sentence: Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was one of the best educated women of the 19th century.
Description: "Florence Nightingale is widely regarded as the founder of modern nursing. What is less well known is that she also had well-developed ideas about the spiritual aspects of nursing care. Her views draw from both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions and have a startling relevance to nursing practice today. Janet Macrae, a Nightingale scholar and a nationally recognized expert on therapeutic touch, outlines Nightingale's ideas on spirituality in this book and discusses how a variety of techniques can be used to achieve a more spiritual and humane form of nursing care. The techniques, which include yoga, mediation, and relaxation exercises, can be used by both nurses and patients."--Jacket.