Information About the Global Academy of Holistic Nursing

Vision

GAHN envisions Global communities that embrace praxes of holistic health, wellness, and social justice.

Holistic Nursing Praxes is the integration of Holistic Nursing knowledge, skills and values needed to affect a sense of wellbeing in individuals, groups and communities.

Social justice is the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges needed to eradicate health disparities and promote safe and healthy communities.

Values

Interacting values that guide the work of the Global Academy of Holistic Nursing are:

Behaviors Reflecting GAHN Values

Social Justice

Moral advocacy for equity, diversity, inclusion, and emancipatory interconnectedness in healthcare

Trustworthiness

Authenticity, integrity, self-reflection, self-awareness, self-development; and life-long learning

Caring-Healing

Embrace, apply , and advance an ontology that integrates concepts of consciousness, unitary beings, holism, whole-person harmony, compassion, cultural humility, and intrapersonal communication as the core of holistic nursing

Scholarship

Competence in four areas as described by Boyer (1990); discussed by Diamond and Adam (1993); and Brown and colleagues (1995). The four areas are: discovery (research), application (practice), teaching and learning, and integration (synthesis within or across disciplines). Scholarship requires creative and innovative work in one of these four areas that is disseminated and adopted by others.

Boyer, E. (1990).Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities for the professoriate. Princeton, NJ: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Brown, S.A., Cohen, S.M., Kaeser, L., Leane, C.D., Littleton, L.Y., Otto, D.A., & Rickman, K.J. (1995). Nursing perspective on Boyer's scholarship paradigm.Nurse Educator, 20,(5), 26-30.
Diamond, R.M., & Adam, B.E. (1993). Recognizing faculty work: Reward systems for the year 2000. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Mission

The Global Academy of Holistic Nursing advances excellence in holistic nursing praxes and global health care transformation

Purpose

The Global Academy of Holistic Nursing contributes to and serves the global community by:

Cultivating a network of holistic nursing scholars committed to social justice
Expanding the role of transcultural integrative caring-healing processes within healthcare
Providing leadership in promoting and sustaining global health care transformation

Scholarship and GAHN's Programs

The hallmark attribute of scholarship is the cumulative impact of the scholar's work on the field of nursing and health care (AACN, March 2018).

Nursing scholarship, drawing from Boyer's work (1990) is the generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of knowledge that aims to improve health and transform health care. Scholarship is the communication of knowledge generated through multiple forms of inquiry that inform clinical practice, nursing education, policy, and healthcare delivery (AACN ).

Holistic Nursing Scholarship as recognized by GAHN is in synchrony with this view of Scholarship, has four standing committees that will serve as working groups dedicated to each type of scholarship.

GAHN's Outcomes and Related Goals

GAHN'S OBJECTIVES

1. Holistic nursing scholars committed to transforming healthcare communities

RELATED GOALS

1.1 Cultivate an infrastructure necessary to mentor holistic nurse scholars.

1.2 Promote holistic caring-healing processes.

1.3 Foster the integration of holistic nursing values in healthcare communities.

2. Nursing practice models that integrate the pedagogy, ontology, and praxis of holistic health and wellness

2.1 Disseminate role and benefits of holistic praxis to organizations and associations.

2.2 Promote resources and praxis to support the continued development of holistic health and wellness science.

3. Sustainable, innovative holistic health and wellness programs that embody attributes of social justice

3.1 Explicate the relationship between social justice and holistic health and wellness .

3.2 Promote policies to advance social justice within a culture of health and wellness.

4. Educational initiatives that promote holistic policies and ethics through engagement and collaboration with AHNA, AHNCC and other national and international organizations.

4.1 Provide leadership and advocacy for holistic nursing through collaboration with AHNA and AHNCC.

4.2 Develop collaborative relationships with relevant/related national and international organizations

EDISJ Statement

Holistic Nursing's Code of Ethics and Positions Statements (ANA/AHNA, 2019, 243-257) build on the ANA Code of Ethics (ANA, 2015). The Global Academy of Holistic Nursing draws from these documents to introduce GAHN's Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, Social Justice Position (EDISJ) Statement with the following words:

Our professional Code of Ethics obligates nurses to practice with compassion and respect for inherent dignity, worth, and unique attributes of every person (ANA, 2015, p 1. ), and collaborate with other health professionals and the public to protect human rights, promote health diplomacy, and reduce disparities (p. 129). These ethical provisions mandate that nurses commit to actively and proactively speak against racism, discrimination and injustice; advocate for equity, diversity, and inclusion; and collaborate with others to eradicate health disparities and promote safe and healthy communities.

The entire EDISJ Position Statement can be found here