Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Journal of education and research in nursing (Online), cilt.19, sa.3, 2022 (Hakemli Dergi)
Nursing theories aim to increase the quality of care while improving nursing practices.
Integrative nursing, which constitutes the application area of holistic philosophy, is a
complex health care system that evaluates the individual with his environment, supports
his innate healing capacity, emphasizes the healing power of nature, advocates personcentered and relationship-based care, includes the most appropriate evidence-based healing therapies, and provides interdisciplinary cooperation. This nursing approach is described
as “a way of being-knowing-doing” that improves the health and well-being of the individual,
family, and society through care and therapeutic relationships. Integrative nursing, whose
main framework is formed by 6 principles, can be considered as an application theory based
on previous theories. Applying integrative nursing principles into practice and planning
nursing care according to these principles can present quality care and provide a theorybased care. In this review, it is aimed to explain how to use integrative nursing principles
in the clinic/field, their compatibility with other theories and models, the interventions that
can be applied, and what can be done in the measurement of results.