What is holistic nursing?

Holistic nursing is a specific approach to the discipline of nursing that centers around total patient care or holistic healing. This discipline is grounded in the theory that in order to provide effective treatment, nurses must treat the mind, body, and soul, not just the immediate medical condition with which a patient is dealing. The idea is that patient outcomes improve considerably when nurses and other medical practitioners integrate psychological, spiritual, and humane care into their medical practice, and the medical diagnosis considers quality of life and other aspects in relation to the medical problems.