Nursing leaders in integrative and complementary practices in hospital units

Abstract

Objective: To describe current scientific evidence on nursing leaders in integrative and complementary practices in hospital units. Bibliographic review: The Nurse leader in hospital units is the one whose role develops and establishes cooperative relationships and mobilization of resources in the work environment. Therefore, combining integrative and complementary practices in your care, both with patients and their subordinates, within the hospital, will be an excellent tool for the comprehensive care of human beings. Introducing such practices in hospitals is a great challenge and what will allow us to break this paradigm is to study Traditional Chinese Medicine there, enabling people to understand how the disease sets in and how its multiple factors are involved. Final considerations: It was possible to observe that integrative and complementary practices are still little known in hospitals, especially in relation to Nurse leaders specialized in this area and could benefit both users and professionals who are there to perform nursing care, through of the nursing process. More investment by nurse leaders specialized in integrative and complementary practices in hospital units and more studies that address this topic are suggested.