Easley R. (2007) Harmony: a concept analysis

摘要

Easley (2007), in her article 'Harmony: a concept analysis', states that nurses should be able to 'feel the air, sing the song, dance the dance, and play the part' (p. 555) in their clinical setting to promote harmony for patients. Easley has created a delightful analogy to ease the tension that nurses sometimes experience in providing spiritual care with and for their patients. She also reminds us that harmony is not created in isolation. Nurses would do well to remember Easley's harmony when administering spiritual care.Culliford (2002) states that medicine and spiritual care have been observed to be peripheral to each other, but the time has ripened for healthcare professionals to recall, reinterpret and reclaim this sacred dimension of our practice. Spiritual care provides the patient with a sense of meaning. Meaning fosters renewed hope and leads to peace of mind that enables people to accept and live with otherwise insolvable problems. One's spirit (irrespective of religious affiliation or beliefin God) strives for inspiration, reverence, meaning and purpose. This striving is equated with a search for harmony (Culliford 2002).