Healing Touch Integrative Care Program: Integrating Healing Touch in the Clinical Setting
is a comprehensive manual that provides the structure and necessary tools needed to implement Healing Touch in a clinical setting. It was developed in collaboration between Lourdes Lorenz, RN, MSN, NEA-BC, AHNA-BC, HTP-A, and Healing Touch Program (HTP).

As Director of Integrative Health at Mission Hospital in Asheville, NC, Ms. Lorenz developed, implemented and coordinates a very successful and sustainable integrative healthcare program that includes Healing Touch and several other modalities. As a long standing endorsed and accredited leader in nursing continuing education, HTP provides the standardized curriculum and professional support that makes Healing Touch an evidence-based modality that is used in healthcare facilities throughout the U.S. The many credentialed Healing Touch Program practitioners and instructors are recognized professionals in healthcare today.

This manual offers a step-by-step process that begins with investigation and culminates in creating a sustainable integrative care program that supports providing Healing Touch to patients throughout the healthcare facility. The outlined process is flexible and can easily be adapted for use in facilities that range from small clinic settings through large hospitals of more than 400 beds.

The manual appendix includes dozens of tools that will be used in all facets of the implementation. It includes MS Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations on a flash drive that can be customized and tailored for the specific healthcare setting.

The HTICP manual is ideal for an individual who wants to approach a healthcare facility about implementing Healing Touch as a new integrative modality, or as an add-on to an existing program. It is also excellent for Administrators, or someone who already works in the clinical setting that wants to begin an integrative care department with Healing Touch as the foundational modality, or wants to bring Healing Touch into an existing program. HTP Instructors and Practitioners who want to bring Healing Touch to a facility will find the HTICP manual an invaluable resource.

The HTICP manual includes:

• Information on Healing Touch, Healing Touch Program, complementary and alternative medicine, integrative medicine, holistic nursing, current healthcare trends, available research,  and much more.
• Setting the vision and intention for the Healing Touch program.
• Guidance on gathering pertinent information on the facility and community that will establish the foundation for a successful implementation; tools for organizing and storing information; and templates for letters, scripts, presentations.
• Strategies for:
  • Developing a strategic plan, business plan, and support for implementation
  • Planning and organizing communications
  • Engaging stakeholders
  • Establishing the necessary teams to implement Healing Touch as a pilot program in a strategically chosen department
• Direction on gathering data that will show the benefits achieved from providing Healing Touch to patients that supports expansion into additional departments throughout the facility.

The package includes:
• 350 page color manual
• USB flash drive (containing docx, pptx, xlsx files)
• Booklet - Healing Touch Scope and Standards of Practice
• Brochures: Practitioner Brochure, Healing Touch Program Brochure, Introduction Booklet - What is Healing Touch?

As patient demand and healthcare mandates call for patient-centered care, the Healing Touch Integrative Program manual is the comprehensive tool that provides the process to answer the need.

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Endorsements:
The Healing Touch Integrative Care Program: Integrating Healing Touch in the Clinical Setting is the most important and comprehensive document ever written about the translational, step-by-step, Healing Touch implementation process. It provides all the evidence and tools needed to begin a successful Healing Touch Integrative Care Program (HTICP) pilot program that can naturally flow to other departments. The many tools and guidelines can be customized to each hospital and organization leading to successful outcomes. This manual is also an important social contribution, because no society can flourish without the essential contributions of nurses. The HTICP can help nurses find their voice and step into their healing power in these chaotic times in healthcare.

Barbara Montgomery Dossey, PhD, RN, AHNC-BC, FAAN, HWNC-BC
Author: Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice (6th ed), The Art and Science of Nurse Coaching: A Provider's Guide to Coaching Scope and Competencies, and Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer

Healing touch and this new Manual is a blueprint for Caring Science and Human Caring Theory-guided practices. Healing Touch is a living example of energetic healing as a caring –healing modality consistent with philosophy and ethic of caring. This manual offers the process and the tools necessary to fully incorporate Healing Touch within the clinical setting. As nurses and other practitioners can be guided through this work to advance their healing gifts of touch by advancing caring-healing practices as the antidote for technology and dispirited providers and patients alike.

I highly recommend this comprehensive manual Healing Touch Integrative Care Program: Integrating Healing Touch in the Clinical Setting as a vital resource for staff and systems alike, longing for a balancing of high technology with healing touch and compassionate caring.

Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN_BC, FAAN
Founder/Director Watson Caring Science Institute
Distinguished Professor Emerita and Dean Emerita, University of Colorado Denver, College of Nursing