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Journal of Holistic Nursing

Journal of Holistic Nursing

Official Journal of the American Holistic Nurses Association

eISSN: 15525724 | ISSN: 08980101 | Current volume: 42 | Current issue: 2 Frequency: Quarterly

For over 20 years, the Journal of Holistic Nursing has been a pioneering force in advancing the science and practice of holistic nursing and healthcare. The peer-reviewed journal promotes holism—a state of harmony among body, mind, emotions, and spirit —and nursing’s function within that ever-changing environment. This objective forum allows caring and innovative nurses in clinical practice, research, individual wellness practice, and academia to exchange critical information, share clinical and personal experiences, and communicate research pertaining to holistic nursing practice, health care, wellness, healing, and human potential.

PARTICIPATE IN THE HEALING PROCESS

Holistic nursing encompasses balancing the intuitive art of nursing with scientific knowledge and technical competence. If you are committed to practices that respect, nurture, and enhance the bio-psycho-socio-spiritual well-being of individuals, families, and yourself, the Journal of Holistic Nursing can help you learn how to actively participate in the healing process. Each issue brings you :

  • Awareness of the opportunities to nurture and empower your clients, their families, and yourself
  • Concepts of self-care, wellness, and preventive intervention that you can incorporate into your everyday practice
  • Inspiration to continue your personal and professional transformation
  • Knowledge of different approaches that pertain to both patient care and lifestyle
  • Techniques that will help you sharpen your skills and become more clinically competent
  • Implementation of intuitive as well as analytic skills of the opportunities to nurture and empower your clients, their families, and yourself of self-care, wellness, and preventive intervention that you can incorporate into your everyday practice to continue your personal and professional transformation of different approaches that pertain to both patient care and lifestyle that will help you sharpen your skills and become more clinically competent of intuitive as well as analytic skills

EXPLORE A BROAD RANGE OF TOPICS

Published four times a year, the Journal of Holistic Nursing examines a broad range of topics that will challenge your thinking and expand your horizons -- from ethical concerns to spiritual growth to body awareness. Just some of the important topics in recent issues include:

  • Adolescent Violence
  • Aging and Health
  • Alternative Therapies
  • Caregiver Concerns
  • Guided Imagery
  • Holistic Philosophy
  • Prayer and Healing
  • Sexual Risk Behavior
  • Spirituality in Terminal Illness
  • Spiritual Care
  • Stress Management and Relaxation
  • Therapeutic Touch
  • Weight-Related Distress After Childbirth
  • Youth Suicide

Each issue contains Applied Concepts of Holistic Nursing and Continuing Education Opportunities that can lead to CE credits. The journal also occasionally offers special issues devoted to specific subjects such as: Adolescent Health, Positive Aging, and Holistic Nursing Theory.

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The purpose of the Journal of Holistic Nursing is to publish work that contributes to development of the knowledge, advancement of the science, and promotion of the practice of holistic nursing and health care.

The aims of the Journal of Holistic Nursing are:

  • to provide a venue for the publication and dissemination of significant and exceptional work that makes a contribution to the advancement of holistic nursing and health care;
  • to support the scholarship of holistic nurses and other health care providers by creating a forum for sharing important work of quality;
  • to offer a systematic and precise review of manuscripts using standards that enhance the presentation and expression of important holistic work;
  • to encourage and support the development of excellence in scholarly writing and review in holistic nursing and health care;
  • to create a forum for dialogue associated with diverse and innovative forms of inquiry and scholarship; and
  • to provide a resource of credible and creative scholarship that may improve the quality of holistic health for all people. 

Manuscripts are solicited that deal with the processes of knowledge development and application including research, concept analysis and theory development, philosophical analysis, practical applications of research and theory, clinical case studies and analysis, practice applications in general, educational approaches and evaluation, and aesthetic expressions of holistic knowledge. The journal supports a wide variety of scholarship based on traditional and emerging methodologies. Manuscripts are published according to receipt and approval dates allowing for the widest array of new information to reach our readers.

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Editor-in-Chief
W. Richard Cowling III, RN, PhD, AHN-BC, FAAN, ANEF Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
Associate Editors
Howard K. Butcher, RN, PhD, PMHCNS-BC Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
Mary Enzman Hines, RN, PhD, CNS, CPNP, AHN-BC University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA
Wyona M. Freysteinson, PhD, MN, RN, FAAN Nelda C. Stark College of Nursing, Texas Woman's University Denton, TX, USA
Barry S. Gallison, DNP, MS, APRN, NEA-BC, CPHQ, AHN-BC Broward Health, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Susan Letvak, PhD, RN, FAAN School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, USA
Jo Lynne Robins, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, AHN-C, FAANP Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
Donna H. Taliaferro, PhD, RN, COI University of Phoenix, Tempe, AZ, USA
Diane Wind Wardell, Ph.D., RNC, HNC Ph.D. University of Texas at Houston, USA
Editorial Board
Jozsef Betlehem, PhD, MEd, MSN, RN Institute of Nursing and Clinical Sciences, University of Pecs, Hungary
Peggy Chinn, RN, PhD, FAAN University of Connecticut School of Nursing; Editor, Advances in Nursing Science, San Francisco, CA, USA
Barbara M. Dossey, PhD, RN, HNC, FAAN Holistic Nursing Consultants, Santa Fe, NM, USA; Nightingale Initiative for Global Health, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and Washington, DC, USA
Charlene Downing, RN, PhD University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Joan Engebretson, DrPH, RN, AHN-BC Center for Health, Humanities, and the Human Spirit, University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA
Noreen C. Frisch, RN, BSN, MSN, MSW, PhD, AHN-BC, FAAN School of Nursing, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Naohiro Hohashi, PhD, RN, PHN, LSN, HS, FAAN Graduate School of Health Sciences, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
Lynn Keegan, RN, PhD, AHN-BC, FAAN Holistic Nursing Consultants, Port Angeles, Washington, USA
Erika Caballero Muñoz, RN,MSc Finis Terrae University, Santiago, Chile
Leslie H. Nicoll, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN Maine Desk LLC, Westbrook, ME, USA
Marlaine C. Smith, RN, PhD, AHN-BC, FAAN Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. FL, USA
Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Center, Watson Caring Science Institute, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Dickon Weir-Hughes, RN, BSN, MA, DSc (Hons), FRSPH, FNI Oxford Institute of Nursing, Midwifery & Allied Health Research and Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, UK
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  • ProQuest Health & Medical Complete
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  • Scopus
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