A Close Look at Standards for Therapeutic Touch
- Rebecca M. Good, MA, RNC, LPC
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Nurse Healers–Professional Associates International, Inc
Philadelphia, Pa
Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text.
- KEYWORDS:
- certification
- holistic health
- nurses
- therapeutic touch
To the Editor: In their response1 to a letter by Dr Schmidt2 received in response to their article,3 Ms Rosa and coauthors state that "Dr Schmidt suggests that our test subjects might not have been sufficiently skilled. That would be impossible to determine because [Therapeutic Touch (TT)] has no accepted standards of training or practice."
This statement is incorrect. Nurse Healers–Professional Associates International, Inc (NH-PAI), the official organization for TT, has had Standards of Care, Scope of Practice, and Therapeutic Touch Policy and Procedure for Health Professionals in place for a number of years. The organization was founded in 1977 and has had criteria for practice and teaching, including levels of advancement for practitioners, in place for more than 8 years.
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- Linda Rosa, BSN, RN;
- Larry Sarner
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National Therapeutic Touch Study Group
Loveland, Colo
- Stephen Barrett, MD
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Allentown, Pa
In Reply: The existence of the documents to which Ms Good refers does not negate what we said about lack of accepted practice standards. NH-PAI's 1998 …
