3rd edition Integrative Nursing: A Whole Health Perspective
Definition: Integrative Nursing is a way of being, knowing and doing that advances a whole health perspective to optimize wellbeing. Integrative nurses use evidence-informed strategies to support whole person, system and planetary healing.
- Human beings are whole systems inseparable from and influenced by environments.
- Human beings have an innate capacity for healing and wellbeing.
- Integrative Nursing is person-centered and relationship-based.
- Nature has healing and restorative properties that contribute to health and wellbeing.
- Integrative Nursing is informed by evidence and uses a full range of conventional and integrative approaches, employing the least intensive intervention possible depending on the need and context.
- Integrative Nursing focuses on the health and wellbeing of caregivers as well as those they serve.
From: Integrative Nursing
Edited by Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN and Mary Koithan, PhD, RN-C