Therapeutic Touch : Its Effectiveness On Surgical Incision Site Pain
INTRODUCTION
Therapeutic touch has been shown to decrease patients anxiety levels and
increase their pain tolerance levels when other more mainstream therapies have
not been completely effective. "Therapeutic touch is a process by which energy
is transmitted from one person to another for the purpose of potentiating the
healing process of one who is ill or injured." (Heidt, 1981; Krieger, 1979;
Lionberger, 1985; Randolph, 1984; Kramer, 1990). In my capacity as a nursing
student on a medical- surgical unit, I have noticed an increase in pain
medication requests among patients with incision site pain and a minimal use of
alternative therapies for this pain management. With the use of therapeutic
touch nurses can regain a closeness with patients and also have a direct effect
on their pain level. Therefore the purpose of this study will be to determine
if therapeutic touch is an effective intervention for......
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