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The holistic nurse is an instrument of
healing and a facilitator in the healing process.
As such, holistic nurses honor the individual's subjective experience regarding health,
health beliefs, and values.
Holistic Nurses seek to become therapeutic partners with individuals, families,
and communities using their nursing knowledge, theories, research, expertise, intuition, and creativity.
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Practicing holistic nursing requires
nurses to integrate self-care, self-responsibility, spirituality, and reflection in their lives.
This may lead the nurse to greater awareness of the interconnectedness with self, others, nature,
and God/LifeForce/Absolute/Transcendent. This awareness may further enhance the nurses'
understanding of all individuals and their relationships to the human and global community, and
permits nurses to use this awareness to facilitate the healing process.
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