For over 20 years, the Journal of Holistic Nursing has been a pioneering force in integrating holistic health concepts with traditional Western medicine. 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 nursing practice, health care, wellness, healing, and human potential.

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

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).