The importance of therapeutic touch in nursing
Nowadays nurses consider the energy interaction with the environment of patients during nursing care. Nursing care includes combination of physical, social, psychological and in additon spiritual aspects. Nightingale who define the effects of energetic healing environment, placed touch application was firmly in the center of nursing practice. Rogers, Watson and the other nursing theorists mentioned that energy studies represents a good example for professional approach to spiritual health nursing. Nurses use non conventional energy therapies like therapeutic touch further anymore in many countries. Therapeutic touch is a supplementary technique which is used for a specific purpose and intent of the universal energy and affection that helps patient finding the balance and attaining health. Nurses can reduce the occurrence of emotions like fear and anxiety, providing strong therapeutic effects in patients by using effective contact. It is an incomplete form of communication if nurses touch the patients just for daily planned interventions, patient nurse relationship will approach will strengthen more by using, the level professional friendship that include acceptance, interest and support posts. This article written with the aim to describe the therapeutic touch applications, explain benefits and areas.