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Hello, I am looking for someone to write an article on Holistic Nursing: Scope and Practice. It needs to be at least 2500 words. Wellness or wholeness is the balanced integration of all aspects of health namely physical, spiritual, emotional, and social (Timby, 2008). Any change in one of the aspects of the ‘whole’ person affects the other. As such the focus of ‘healing’, and the aim of holism is to restore the equilibrium than to merely remove the symptoms. Good health according to holism is the balance between inputs and outflows from the body to the environment in a dynamic state. Loss of equilibrium leads to illness (Lawrence and Weisz, 1998). Healing emerges from within the body-mind-spirit of the patient with the assistance of therapeutic attention and not because of them. Holism believes that it is the birthright of a patient to be treated ‘whole’ (Weber).

The root word holism is halos in Greek. Halos mean to ‘be or to become whole.’ The word heal has also emanated from the same source (Mariano, 2008). Holism, too, as a concept dates back to ancient times. Socrates made an appeal to the medical fraternity to adopt holism when he had given a call for ‘curing the soul’. There is a mention of holism in the medical texts of Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine. According to Hippocrates nature is the repository of cures for all illnesses (Skolimowski).

Holism also finds a reference in the ancient Indian and Greek medical practices. Florence Nightingale, the Lady of Lamp, is the first recorded practitioner of holism in modern times. She advocated the use of concepts of unity and wellness and interrelationships of the human beings, events and the environment (Mariano, 2008). The writings of Nightingale continue to inspire the practitioners of holistic nursing care to this day. Recent times have seen a spurt in activities of holistic nursing due to the inability of conventional medicine in providing total cure of mind, body, and spirit. Holism is the return to the traditional modes of thinking affected by the sprinkling of contemporary science (Lawrence and Weisz, 1998).