Healing touch
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Healing Touch is purported to be a biofield therapy that encompasses a group of non-invasive techniques that utilize the hands to clear, energize and balance the human and environmantal energy fields. Healing Touch was developed as a nursing continuing education program by Janet Mentgen, RN, BSN. Healing Touch is a nursing intervention that may be used to restore, energize and rebalance an energy field disturbance.
(according to the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association-NANDA - a Nursing Diagnosis of Energy Field Disturbance is identified as a disruption in the flow of energy surrounding a person's being that results in a disharmony of the body, mind, and/or spirit.)
It has an oversight agency located in Colorado called Healing Touch International and its web address is http://www.healingtouch.net.
Healing Touch International (HTI) has a threefold purpose: 1. To meet the needs of all its members including nurses, other health care professionals and lay persons who are dedicated to provide heart-centered care 2. To offer Certification of Healing Touch Practitioners and Instructioners, to set International Standards of Practice and establish and International Code of Ethics for Healing Touch Practitioners, in order to ensure the public a means to judge the training and professionalism of its practitioners and instructors 3. To provide a mechanism for the scholarly development of Healing Touch care.
Healing Touch complements and is adjunctive to therapeutic interventions utilized by physicians and other licensed health care providers. Healing Touch is an independent nursing intervention and does not require a physician order nor does it require informed consent. However, the nurse must have permission to assist the client. In addition, nurses who use Healing Touch as an intervention must have successfully completed at the minimum, a fifteen-hour Level 1 continuing education course taught by a Certified Healing Touch Instructor. Within the acute care setting, it is highly recommended that the nurse will have successfully completed at minimum 30 hours of continuing education courses to include Healing Touch Levels 1 and 2.
There are five courses within the Healing Touch cirriculum that leads to the completion of the program. Healing Touch International defines four levels of Healing Touch paractice: the Student has completed a Level 1 course. A Healing Touch Practitioner Apprentice has completed Level 4 and the Healing Touch Practitioner has completed the 120 contact hour preparation coursework within Levels 1 through 5 and has received a Certificate of Completion by the Healing Touch Program Director. The Certified Healing Touch Practitioner has further met certification criteria and was approved by the Healing Touch International Certification Board.
Advocates claims that the indications for use include but are not limitied to: Pain - both acute and chronic, promotion of health and well-being, impaired tissue integrity, fear and anxiety, spiritual distress, respiratory distress,and post-utilization of anesthesia, chemotherapy and other toxins.
