[NPInfo] My Reply...Back to Sue

Sat Sep 8 18:16:36 PDT 2007

Hi Shelby,

  I am still working on getting some better pictures and my hours are changing as I change part time jobs, but it is a work in progress. I agree, my biller keeps saying I should not have "holistic" in the paper or on the website, but to me (even though the public may not know the definition) they will know how they are treated, and that is what counts.. 

  website is:  www.healingpresencenp.com    Carla

Shelby Havens <shelbyhavens at hotmail.com> wrote:
  Dear Carla:

I don't think I have seen your website. Would you mind posting the link?

I am certified by the American Holistic Nurses Association as an Advance 
Holistic Nurse. Whenever I tell people about this, they usually ask me about 
herbal remedies. Deep sigh.

Best Regards,

Shelby Havens, ARNP

>From: Carla Anderson 
>Reply-To: NP Info 
>To: NP Info 
>Subject: RE: [NPInfo] My Reply...Back to Sue
>Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 08:29:01 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I completely agree! The nurses have lost that caring, which is what I call 
>on my webste "holistic therapeutic care", to me it is the essence of what a 
>nurse is, and now a nurse practitioner, if they want to call it the 
>"caring" theory which not only attends the physical but also the spiritual 
>and emotional side of the patient and family, that is wonderful. It is a 
>concept that is so difficult to explain, and yet I think in the truly 
>inspired nurses that went into the profession, it was already part of their 
>personality, and that is what attracted them to the line of work. I have 
>had some people say "holistic" sounds like you are doing acupuncture or 
>just alternative, and no, to me it embodies the entire person, and the 
>entire aspect of care, which is so much deeper than the c/c someone came in 
>with. I have always been a patient advocate, and usually the nurse in 
>general has been , but I have seen things change and it is awful. We must 
>focus as Priscilla said on this
> concept of patient centered care. But to me it keeps going back to "treat 
>others as you would treat yourself".. how is the best way you would want to 
>be listened and cared for ? And the human touch, and a hug at the 
>appropriate time, or allowing someone to cry, and just listen is priceless. 
>You are right it is the ART of nursing that is being lost, and when I see 
>it , it is heartbreaking, the hardness you see in some of the nurses out 
>their today, and the unsafe practices, let alone the lack of being able to 
>"tend" to someone. Carla
>
>Priscilla Merrill 
wrote: Amen to that! 
>Couldn't have said it better, Dena. I'm truly heartsick to
>see this part of nursing go by the wayside. True nursing care for the most
>part has gone down the toilet as nurses are more and more multitasked and
>forced to be documentation/computer queens. My friends that have stayed in
>nursing are few and far between and burnt to a crisp with the new mountains
>of expectations, shorter than ever staffing and the fluffing has suffered 
>as
>have the patients. That's been my mantra over and over on these threads- -
>the patient MUST be our center. It's not all about money, power, prestige,
>turf, role delineation -- we must put CARE in the center and all would be
>happy.
>OK, I salute you my JANGO sister! This obviously made us fluffers from a
>very early age. When you take care of men and do your hs perineal care, 
>does
>that make you a Fluffer-Nutter? And as my 2 cents, there's a difference
>between comfort and fluffing and waking folks for mundane tasks when you
>don't have to. That's why they call it the ART of nursing. OK< flame suit
>on, POOF.
>
>Priscilla Merrill FNP
>
>
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>From: npinfo-bounces at nurse.net [mailto:npinfo-bounces at nurse.net] On Behalf
>Of Dena
>Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 2:39 AM
>To: 'NP Info'
>Subject: RE: [NPInfo] My Reply...Back to Sue
>
>I remember back in the '80s working 3-11, pushing a cart from patient to
>patient starting at 9:00p.m., handing out a hot wet washcloth, a towel,
>changing the drawsheet, putting a new pillow case on the pillow before
>fluffing it, and offering a back rub to everyone. It was my favorite part 
>of
>the shift. Did I ever think I was playing the stereotypical handmaiden role
>while I was doing it? No-- I only knew I was helping my patients relax and
>feel better. Several years ago while working agency on the floor for extra
>money, I fell back into the same pattern and the nurses were astonished.
>None of them had ever heard of p.m. care before. When working the day 
>shift,
>I was shocked to find out that none of the nurses apparently had ever heard
>of a.m. care or baths before either.
>
>My girlfriend's 20 yr old son was in the ICU a couple of years ago with
>bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax and was, appropriately, scared to death.
>He later told his mom (a NP herself) that the best nurse he had was one who
>gave him a back rub one night and then pulled up a chair and spent 20
>minutes just talking to him. That was what he needed more than anything 
>else
>at the time.
>
>I have often said that people go into nursing for one of two reasons-- the
>art of nursing (the nurturing, hand holding, talking) or the science of
>nursing (the machines, the numbers, the technical aspects). I'm definitely
>the hand-holding nurturer type, always have been and always will be-- and I
>will never apologize for it.
>Dena Galler
>
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