Dear Colleagues- From the University of Arizona College of Nursing, this is a one-of-a-kind opportunity. Take some time and check out the links. I am one of the first graduates, the 2016-2017 cohort, of this fellowship and wish I could do it again. The application for the Integrative Nursing Fellowship (INF) is currently open through March 15th! Since […]
Author: Kim
Welcome! I am an RN, MSN with an emphasis on leadership and integrative nursing. This blog site can be an educational site or a place of respite. I have 25 years of nursing experience including 10 of those years in leadership positions. I am now proudly a clinical instructor at the University of Arizona College of Nursing. I have a faculty position in the RN-MSN Online Clinical Leadership Program. We emphasize integrative nursing education to leave a graduate with tools to create healing environments for patients, families, and communities as well as providing tools for each graduate to learn to care for themselves.
I am also a fellow in the Integrative Nurse Faculty Fellowship.
Health care is a brutal business in many parts of this country. In these many corporate structures, it is easy to lose sight of our patients and most definitely, ourselves.
The Principles of Integrative Nursing
Integrative nursing became a healing discipline when Florence Nightingale (1859-1946) found treating wounds and disease was only one part of healing (Koithan, 2018). She believed that treatments were providing the systems of the patient the ability to leave the patient “in the best position for nature to act upon” them (Nightingale, 1859/1946, p. 75). Six […]
Integrative Nursing Faculty Fellowship (INFF)
I was proud to be part of the very first pilot program of the INFF. If you are nursing faculty anywhere in the country I would highly recommend this experience. I learned two healing modalities that I can practice today; Equine Therapy using HeartMath energy work was taught to our INFF group by Dr. Ann […]
What is an integrative nurse?
Integrative therapy is rising in the medical field. Why? Because patients are demanding complementary treatments along with traditional medicine. Most of the integrative therapies in use are thousands of years old. Research is growing each day to support these therapies. However, integrative nursing strives for evidence-informed research. What does the mean? It means the therapy […]
The Integrative Nurse 