Williams S A
Department of Adult Health Nursing, School of Nursing, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
Holist Nurs Pract. 1997 Apr;11(3):61-8. doi: 10.1097/00004650-199704000-00009.
Holistic nurse caring, also called patient-focused care, is a helping relationship between nurse and patient with the potential to enhance health and healing. Few studies, however, have examined the relationship of the process of nurse caring to patient outcomes. Hospitalized patients face many stressors that cause anxiety. It is known that abnormally high levels of anxiety can interfere with patients' recovery. The article reports a study of patients' perceptions of holistic nurse caring and the relationship of perceptions of caring to levels of anxiety. Patients perceived caring to be evident, and there was a significant relationship between these perceptions and patients' levels of anxiety.
