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Nursing development depends on clarification of terms currently used, but apparently with different meanings.
That is the case of therapeutic interventions and therapeutic instruments. The present article tries to answer the
following research question: “Which nursing interventions are considered therapeutic and what are their
characteristics?” It was hoped that the meaning of therapeutic instruments would be achieved.
A systematic review of the literature on nursing therapeutic interventions was done based on well known data
basis through which were achieved 13 articles dated from 1993 to 2006.
There is some degree of evidence of the use of therapeutic nursing interventions and general agreement on its
meaning. Identified therapeutic instruments used by nurses in therapeutic interventions were: therapeutic letters,
bathing and comforting care, humour, music, presence, mindfulness (cognitive therapy), therapeutic touch,
information management and emotional management. The concept therapeutic instrument used in nursing needs
maturation, justifying a concept clarification study.
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Therapeutic interventions Therapeutic instruments Nursing therapeutic instruments Nursing care
Citation
BASTO, Marta Lima [et al.] - Therapeutic instruments used in therapeutic interventions: is there evidence in nursing care?: a systematic review of the literature. International journal of caring sciences[Em linha]. 3:1 (Jan. - Apr. 2010) 12-21. Disponível na Internet: http://www.internationaljournalofcaringsciences.org/docs/Vol3_Issue1_03_LimaBasto.pdf. ISSN: 1792 - 037X
Publisher
International Journal of Caring Sciences