AbstractNursing is the largest, the most diverse, and one of the most respected of all the health care professions. Nursing focuses on the holistic care of human beings and the use of multiple complementary healing modalities when participating in a caring-healing relationship.
Aim: The study was done to assess the experience, expectations in maintaining the harmony of mind, body, and spirit practices among student nurses. Forty student nurses were chosen by Convenient Sampling technique. Subject was provided assurance that information obtained from them was kept confidential. The investigator used structured questionnaire to collect Socio Demographic data. Experience and expectation assessed by Likert scale.
Results: The experience mean score of 51.80 with the standard deviation of 7.339 whereas the expectation mean score of 57.43 with the standard deviation of 9.658. Karl Pearson’s correlation Coefficient used between experience and expectation in maintaining the harmony of mind, body, and spirit practices (r=0.521) with p>0.001 level.
Conclusion: Most of the nurses are experienced in Mind, Body, Spirit practices in maintaining the harmony. They have greater expectations about spiritual and emotional than physical benefits. Knowledge of participant’s baseline experiences, expectations help in future training and research on mind, body, spirit practices.