Holistic Nursing Care Workshop

Description:
This workshop is intended to inculcate concept of Holistic Nursing care in nurses working at different units of SKMCH&RC to enable them to address patients’ bio-psychosocial needs by using nursing process. The principle aim is to enhance quality of care provided to cancer patients.

Specific Objectives:

  1. Discuss the influence of a holistic viewpoint on health
  2. Describe the nurse’s roles regarding promoting Holistic Care
  3. Nursing Process and its components
  4. Discuss the nurse’s professional responsibilities related to teaching.
  5. Relate the teaching-learning process to the nursing process.
  6. Describe teaching strategies that make learning meaningful to clients.

Training Methods:
In-service workshop given within first year of employment at nursing division of SKMCH&RC and is to be repeated after every 2 years.  The workshop can be offered to the external nurses upon institutions request.

Contents:

  1. The components of the nursing process.
  2. Tasks involved in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation.
  3. Nursing skills required in implementation of the nursing process.
  4. Gorden Functional Health Pattern
  5. Relationship of nursing process to the problem-solving
  6. Importance of client education.
  7. Principles of adult education
  8. Common barriers to learning.
  9. Relate the teaching-learning process to the nursing process.
  10. Describe teaching strategies that make learning meaningful to clients.
  11. The Maslow Heraicy Needs Model
  12. The influence of a holistic viewpoint on health and health care delivery.
  13. The nurse’s roles regarding clients’ spirituality and promoting the sexual health of clients.