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Anthroposophic nursing care connects the treatment of the body with the care of the patient's soul and spirit. Attention is paid to touch, using warmth, cold air and light to promote healing. While physical wellbeing is central to our modern society, our bodies actually receive little respect and attention, especially when we become ill and old. This book argues that nursing values need to be rediscovered which respect the individual, embrace illness as part of life, and allow time for healing. Anthroposophic Nursing Practice highlights a form of nursing which is both holistic and optimistic. This important book gathers together knowledge and perspectives from generations of nurses, including Anna Wilde, Bernhard Deckers and Heikie Schaumann. This comprehensive work will inevitably become the classic text on the important practice of anthroposophic nursing.

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""This first English-language edition of Anthroposophic Nursing Practice shows not only the possibility, but the practical experience of nursing care which is both holistic and optimistic in its orientation. That is a cause for celebration! ""A monumental contribution to the field of nursing and health care in general. It will no doubt soon become the classic text in this important area. Anthroposophic Nursing Practice spans the full gamut of practices that should be a part of contemporary holistic therapeutic care and extends them in significant ways: biography, inner development (meditations), nursing gestures, rhythm, warmth, washing, wound care, pneumonia, rhythmical massage, compresses, and specializations, for example in childbirth, childhood education, psychiatric nursing, cancer, and geriatrics, including palliative care. Every nurse who approaches the care of their patients with a modern spiritual perspective will want this book on their shelf and moreover in their heart."" --Arthur Zajonc, author of Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry ""This fundamental and comprehensive book of anthroposophic nursing practice is the result of generations of practical experience in truly holistic nursing care. Here are nursing techniques that have matured over many years through anthroposophic nurses who have been striving to define a truly integrative nursing practice. They are simple, safe, effective, and humane. They open a whole realm of clinical practices that guide the body through illness by actively calling on the body's own intrinsic healing processes. ""There are chapters that will be of very special interest, and also useful for laypeople who are caring for others, most notably the ones about caring for newborns at the beginning of life and for the elderly at the end of life."" --Adam Blanning, MD, President, Anthroposophic Health Association (AHA)

This fundamental and comprehensive book of anthroposophic nursing practice is the result of generations of practical experience in truly holistic nursing care. Here are nursing techniques that have matured over many years through anthroposophic nurses who have been striving to define a truly integrative nursing practice. They are simple, safe, effective, and humane. They open a whole realm of clinical practices that guide the body through illness by actively calling on the body's own intrinsic healing processes. There are chapters that will be of very special interest, and also useful for laypeople who are caring for others, most notably the ones about caring for newborns at the beginning of life and for the elderly at the end of life. --Adam Blanning, MD, President, Anthroposophic Health Association (AHA) This first English-language edition of Anthroposophic Nursing Practice shows not only the possibility, but the practical experience of nursing care which is both holistic and optimistic in its orientation. That is a cause for celebration! A monumental contribution to the field of nursing and health care in general. It will no doubt soon become the classic text in this important area. Anthroposophic Nursing Practice spans the full gamut of practices that should be a part of contemporary holistic therapeutic care and extends them in significant ways: biography, inner development (meditations), nursing gestures, rhythm, warmth, washing, wound care, pneumonia, rhythmical massage, compresses, and specializations, for example in childbirth, childhood education, psychiatric nursing, cancer, and geriatrics, including palliative care. Every nurse who approaches the care of their patients with a modern spiritual perspective will want this book on their shelf and moreover in their heart. --Arthur Zajonc, author of Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry

This first English-language edition of Anthroposophic Nursing Practice shows not only the possibility, but the practical experience of nursing care which is both holistic and optimistic in its orientation. That is a cause for celebration! A monumental contribution to the field of nursing and health care in general. It will no doubt soon become the classic text in this important area. Anthroposophic Nursing Practice spans the full gamut of practices that should be a part of contemporary holistic therapeutic care and extends them in significant ways: biography, inner development (meditations), nursing gestures, rhythm, warmth, washing, wound care, pneumonia, rhythmical massage, compresses, and specializations, for example in childbirth, childhood education, psychiatric nursing, cancer, and geriatrics, including palliative care. Every nurse who approaches the care of their patients with a modern spiritual perspective will want this book on their shelf and moreover in their heart. --Arthur Zajonc, author of Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry This fundamental and comprehensive book of anthroposophic nursing practice is the result of generations of practical experience in truly holistic nursing care. Here are nursing techniques that have matured over many years through anthroposophic nurses who have been striving to define a truly integrative nursing practice. They are simple, safe, effective, and humane. They open a whole realm of clinical practices that guide the body through illness by actively calling on the body's own intrinsic healing processes. There are chapters that will be of very special interest, and also useful for laypeople who are caring for others, most notably the ones about caring for newborns at the beginning of life and for the elderly at the end of life. --Adam Blanning, MD, President, Anthroposophic Health Association (AHA)

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Rolf Heine is a certified nurse and anthroposophic nursing specialist. In 2012 he founded the Academy for Nursing Professions at the Filderklinik hospital, Stuttgart. He now runs the Network for Anthroposophic Nursing Care in Germany and is president of the International Council of Anthroposophic Nursing Associations (ICANA). He has published numerous contributions on the topic of anthroposophic nursing in books and professional journals.

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