Healing Touch therapies use a practitioner's intentional placement of hands to influence energy fields of the patient to promote self-healing. In the changing climate of healthcare where patient experience increasingly drives reimbursements, it is vital to find unique and meaningful ways to ensure positive patient experiences beyond traditional medical therapies. To that end, our peritoneal dialysis clinic staff adopted Jean Watson's theoretical framework by which patients are treated as whole, unique persons with a "multidimensional system of energy, with a consciousness that can be affected by another to promote well-being,". With a rapidly growing urban clinic of more than 100 patients, our nurses identified the need to provide more ways to improve patient care.Staff were educated on ways to set positive intentions for patient contacts and incorporate patient narratives into contact. Optional daily prayer was initiated, and patients were invited to attend a new support group for peritoneal dialysis patients and their families. In addition, a preliminary pilot provided healing touch treatments to interested patients. This pilot, described below, found improvement in 4 out of 5 measured categories. Fatigue and pain decreased by 46% and 68%, respectively. Stress/anxiety fell by 48%, while depression saw a large drop of 84%. Nausea was unchanged.
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