Today was such an awesome day! It was our first day being in the schools all around Homer and other small towns in Alaska. I was in the Homer Middle School working with a school nurse which was a super fun experience for me considering I am doing my capstone in an elementary school. I learned a lot from my school nurse and it was interesting to see the different approaches the school nurse at this school takes compared to my preceptor back home. I learned a little bit about healing touch which the nurse used to assess a wound. She rubbed her hands together and then proceeded to hover her hands over the wound and the rest of the leg. She said that she uses this to see if there was an infection by feeling if the energy would get hot when her hands hovered over it. We have been talking a lot about holistic medicine since we have been in Alaska so it was interesting to see this in practice someone else other than the hospital setting. Yesterday we learned about traditional healing at the clinic in Anchorage and they actually use tribal doctors for this practice. I found a lot of similarities in this healing touch practice and the traditional healing that I have experienced. Our medical systems will hopefully move into this more holistic care model. Next stop, Soldotna!
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AuthorHolli Barteck, Senior St. Scholastica nursing student Archives |