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The Holistic Nursing and Healing Environmentsis an interactive open textbook that focuses on key holistic nursing and healing environment content. This text is the second book in a series of textbooks about holistic nursing practice.

Users may use the textbook for free, non-commerical use only and must credit author Nancyruth Leibold.  Sophie Michelle Breitkreutz is the lead author for the Planetary Health Chapter and should be included for credit of the chapter.

The Overall Aim of the Text

The text intends to communicate information about holistic nursing and healing environments. The holistic nursing knowledge and skill base are vast. There are many areas of holistic health and nursing! Holistic nurses should acknowledge the wide breadth of content by using multiple resources to advance expertise as a holistic nurse.

Main Goals of the Text

1. Provide information about holistic nursing, including healing environments.
2. Provide information about holistic nursing roles, nurse practice acts, scope, standards, and ethics.
3. Deliver nursing research and evidence-based practice content specific for holistic nursing practice.
4. Relate key areas in holistic nursing in preparation for holistic nursing practice or sitting the holistic nurse certification examination. This is one source, and holistic nurses are encouraged to also access other sources. The content knowledge of holistic nursing is quite vast and requires extensive study for national board certification. Additional sources are found at the end of each chapter in the textbook.

**The author of the text recommends that other credible sources of information are used along with the textbook to promote the breadth and value of learning from multiple sources. The critical thinker should always use multiple sources to enrich their mind with perspectives from a variety of scholars.

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