Florence Nightingale recognized the importance of whole-person
approaches. She integrated the healing arts with conventional treatments,
including touch, light, aromatics, empathetic listening, music,
and quiet reflection (American Holistic Nurses’ Association, 2001).
Her theory of natural healing defined the nurse as the provider of an
environment conducive to the reparative process, and the client as
having vital, natural, reparative power that can be