Integrative Nursing

Fully updated and revised, the second edition of Integrative Nursing is a complete roadmap to integrative patient care, providing a guide to whole person/whole systems assessment and clinical interventions for individuals, families, and communities. Treatment strategies described in this
version employ the full complement of evidence-informed methodologies in a tailored, person-centered approach to care. This text explores concepts, skills, and theoretical frameworks that can be used by healthcare leaders interested in creating and implementing an integrative model of care within
institutions and systems, featuring exemplar nurse-led initiatives that have transformed healthcare systems.

This volume covers the foundations of the field; the most effective ways to optimize wellbeing; principles of symptom management for many common disorders like sleep, anxiety, pain, and cognitive impairment; the application of integrative nursing techniques in a variety of clinical settings and
among a diverse patient population; and integrative practices around the world and how it impacts planetary health. The academic rigor of the text is balanced by practical and relevant content that can be readily implemented into practice for both established professionals as well as students
enrolled in undergraduate or graduate nursing programs.

Integrative medicine is defined as healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person (body, mind, and spirit) as well as all aspects of lifestyle; it emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and makes use of appropriate therapies, both conventional and alternative.

Series editor Andrew Weil, MD, is Professor and Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. Dr. Weil's program was the first such academic program in the U.S., and its stated goal is to combine the best ideas and practices of conventional and alternative
medicine into cost effective treatments without embracing alternative practices uncritically.


Author: Mary Jo Kreitzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/27/2018
Pages: 744
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.65lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.80d
ISBN: 9780190851040

About the Author

Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN is the Director of the Center for Spirituality and Healing and Professor, School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Mary Koithan, RN-C, PhD, CNS-BC is Associate Professor, College of Nursing and Associate Dean for Professional and Community Engagement at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

Andrew Weil, MD, series editor, is the Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, Lovell-Jones Professor of Integrative Rheumatology, Clinical Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Public Health at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.