Conference Proceedings - School of Nursing & Midwifery - Trinity ...

School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin: 8 th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference
Transforming Healthcare Through Research, Education & Technology: 7 th – 9 th November 2007
Conference Proceedings
How would you describe the benefits you received from utilizing this
modality?
How would you describe the benefits your client received from
utilizing this modality?
Upon retrospect, the researcher realizes that this CIT might
be leading the participants’ to reflect only on positive benefits, since
it is asking for ‘benefits’. Even though the research questions
themselves are not asking for ‘positive’ benefits only, they do not
differentiate from positive and negative benefits. Thus, this might
be considered a limitation as it may be perceived as ‘leading’ the
participant.
Statements by participants from CIT
One participant, who was certified in reflexology, discussed
how she felt when she was able to offer comfort to someone in
distress. She wrote:
I was ecstatic that I had the means to offer comfort and pain
relief to someone who was in such distress.
Another participant, who was certified in Healing Touch, also
discussed how gratifying it was to be able to offer support to
another. She wrote:
Gratifying…to be able to help…without this modality…would
have had....{to} just sit there…offer understanding…support
(not to belittle that)…just send her home…gratifying…could do this
work in…setting.
She continued to share how the benefits she personally
received from using healing touch validated her abilities to help
others. She wrote:
Benefits…received…personal validation about…abilities…
personal gratification…being able to help someone.
One participant, certified in Healing Touch and Hypnosis and
with 32 years of nursing experience, shared how using healing
touch provided an opportunity to be present with a client and
family. She wrote:
As nurses, we are often placed in situations when “there is
nothing that can be done”…can be very draining…with healing
touch…ability to simply be present with a patient and family…there
is an acceptance that you are being “worked through”, instead of
energy being “pulled from”…instead of being drained by this
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