Healing Touch: A Gift to Our Patients, OurStaff and Ourselves
By Cecilia Kasperick RN, MSN, CPBN It happened in 2007. I was receiving report from the day shift RN when she explained pain had been an issue for our patient all day. The team had tried many approaches for pain control, but none had been successful. Therefore, together we were going to implement the newest […]
INTRODUCING MINDFULNESS
Being open to all of our experience has the possibility of leading us to greater health and well-being.In a car we can sometimes drive for miles “on automatic pilot”, without really being aware of what we are doing. In the same way, we may not be really “present”, moment-by-moment, for much of our lives. We […]
Reiki Energy Medicine: Enhancing the Healing Process
by Alice Moore, RN, BS, Reiki MasterHartford Hospital Dept.of Integrative Medicine, Hartford, CTWith increasing frequency and confidence, we speak of Energy Medicine (also known as “energy work”) as if it was a new form of therapy for our patients’ ailments. Not so. Thousands of years ago ancient cultures understood intuitively what scientific research and practitioners […]