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Integrative and Holistic Nursing Healing Touch Biofield Therapy

Integrative and Holistic Nursing Healing Touch Biofield Therapy. Rauni Prittinen King , RN, MIH, HNB-BC, CHTPI Executive Director Pacific Pearl La Jolla, Guarneri Integrative Health Inc. President Miraglo Foundation AIHM Board of Director San Diego, California , USA.

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Integrative and Holistic Nursing Healing Touch Biofield Therapy

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  1. Integrative and Holistic NursingHealing TouchBiofield Therapy Rauni Prittinen King, RN, MIH, HNB-BC, CHTPI Executive Director Pacific Pearl La Jolla, Guarneri Integrative Health Inc. President Miraglo Foundation AIHM Board of Director San Diego, California , USA

  2. Integrative and Holistic Nursing • Nearly 20 Million Nurses/Midwifes in the world • Founder of Nursing, Florence Nightingale 1820-1910 • Visionary in Global Health, especially in caring, healing and advocacy • 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s 2030) has relevance for nurses and integrative nursing in order to create a healthy world • WHO /World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland

  3. WHO Geneva 2016 Global Health Council International Nursing Delegates

  4. “Nature alone heals . . . . and what nursing has to do, is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.” Florence Nightingale Pixabay.com

  5. Florence Nightingale on Spirituality • “The needs of the spirit are as crucial to health as those individual organs which make up the body.”

  6. Conventional Medicine HeartAttack Trauma ConventionalMedicine ComplexSurgicalTechniques Infections

  7. Mind Spirit Body Emotion Holistic Model The mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of healingcannot be separated from the physical

  8. Holistic = Bringing back to wholenessCuring = Removing symptoms or diseased parts (such as surgery), allopathic model, masculine qualitiesHealing = Bringing person back to wholeness, body, mind, spirit and emotions.feminine qualitiesCan occur even during the end stages of life

  9. Integrative Model • Best of Allopathic and Complementary Medicine (CAM) • Combining Curing and Healing • Combination of Masculine and Feminine Qualities

  10. American Holistic Nurses Association founded in 1981 by Charlotte McGuire RN • Vice President of Patient Care Services for 19 Hospitals • Frustrated with lack of caring and compassion. • Upset with profit-centered care versus patient-centered care. • Hears about “holism” – attends meeting of AHMA in 1980

  11. Holistic Nursing Recognized as a Specialty In 1996 by the Canadian Nurses Association In 2006 by the American Nurses Association

  12. Holistic Nursing • Can be practiced in any setting. • “All nursing practice that has healing the whole person as its goal.” AHNA

  13. Many Paths to Healing

  14. Holistic Nurses Approach to Healing • Meditation/Prayer • Guided Imagery • Progressive Relaxation • Hypnosis • Journaling • Yoga • Behavioral Therapy • Biofeedback • Acupuncture • Massage • Sound/Vibration • Healing Touch ….and more

  15. Healing Touch Internationalwww.healingbeyondborders.org • Healing Beyond Borders; Educating and Certifying the Healing Touch • Hands on Healing Therapy ( collection of various energy based therapies from different energy healers around the world) • A form of Biofield Therapy • 5- Level Continuing Education Program for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals • Professional International Certification • International Membership Association

  16. What is Biofield or Energy Medicine? Therapies that involve the intentional alteration of subtle energy to elicit a healing response

  17. The Human Biofield • There is a biofield surrounding and supporting the body that is in electromagnetic communication with the larger universal field • Research has shown that energy fields exist in plants, animals and humans • Water is a transmitter of electromagnetic signals • Living cells have 10,000 molecules of water for each molecule of protein. We are about 70% of water

  18. Examples of Energy Therapies • Healing Touch • Therapeutic Touch • Reiki • Johrei • Pranic Healing • Acupuncture • Qi-Gong • Other hands-on- healing

  19. History of Energy Healing or Vital Force, • Native American • Egyptian • Greek - Pneuma • Chinese – Chi or Qi • Indian – Prana • Tibet - Lung • Australian • Japan - Ki

  20. Hippocrates • The healing power of touch and energy dates back to Hippocrates the Greek physician and father of modern medicine who noted that a “force flowed from peoples hands….”

  21. Pythagoras • Pythagoras in Greece referred to the biofield as a “vital energy perceived as a luminous body that could produce cures”

  22. Kirlian Photography

  23. Human Energy System • Chakras= Energy Centers • Meridians= Energy Tracts • Auras= Energy Fields

  24. Chakras • Wheels of Spinning Light • The frequency of the chakra spin generates the color • Storage of information (All events & actions in the past) • All thought forms (energetic interpretations)

  25. Seven Major Chakras

  26. YIN-YANG

  27. Chinese Medicine Diseaseor illness is disharmony in Yin and Yang

  28. Goal of Healing Touch To restore balance and harmony in the human energy system which places the client for a position to self-heal

  29. The Energy System is Influenced by Everything • Environment • Thought • Emotions • Action • Intent

  30. Pre-Open Heart Surgery Anxiety OutcomesScripps Green Hospital • Pre Surgery • 200 Patients • Average = 5.2 • Standard Deviation = 2.3 • Post HT & GI • Average = 1.7 • Standard Deviation = 1.2

  31. Healing Touch with Guided Imagery for Active Duty Military with PTSD A Randomized Controlled Trial • Jain, McMahon, Hansen, Kozub, Porter, King, Guarneri • N=123 Diagnosed with PTSD • 6 sessions HT/GI vs. TAU (treatment as usual) • Primary Outcome: PTSD Symptom Reduction • Secondary Outcome: Depression, Quality of Life, Hostility

  32. Demographics Characteristic HT+GI (n = 68) TAU (n = 55) P-value Age, years 27.1 (20, 42) 27.9 (20, 48) .51 Military Service, years 7.2 7.9 .42 Number of Times Deployed 1.9 2.0 .74 Gender .75 Male 89.7% 92.7% Female 10.3% 7.3% Ethnicity .29 Caucasian-American (CA) 69.8% 67.4% Hispanic/Latino 28.6% 23.9% African-American 0% 4.3% Asian/Pacific Islander 1.6% 4.3% Marital Status .80 Married 61.2% 63.6% Divorced 6.0% 9.1% Separated 9.0% 5.5% Single 23.8% 21.8% Number of Children .87 (0, 7) 1.1 (0, 5) .20 Currently Use Medications for PTSD 56.9% 51.9% .71 Currently Drink Alcohol (%) 74.2% 70.4% .68

  33. Clinical & Statistical Significance PCL-Military cutoff is 50 for PTSD • Changes of 10 to 20 points are clinically significant • Intervention group: a 14 point drop, which is clinically & statistically significant BDI Score of 18 is significant for depression • Intervention group: baseline score of 26.1 dropped to 16.4, suggesting a meaningful reduction Cynicism • Decrease of 14 % in Cynicism in the Intervention Group is particularly noteworthy

  34. Benefits of Healing Touch • Decrease anxiety and stress • Decrease pain and pain medication use • Increase relaxation • Acceleration of wound healing • Prevention of illness • Decrease symptoms of PTSD • Pre and Post Op surgery or procedure • Enhancement of spiritual development • Support in the dying process

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