Therapeutic Touch : Its Effectiveness On Surgical Incision Site Pain

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after surgery?". The independent variable is therapeutic
touch. The dependant variable is decreasing surgical site pain. The population
to be studied will be patients on a thirty bed medical-surgical floor of a Lake
Charles hospital. Fifty surgical patients will be studied over a four week
period. The patients will be randomly selected to avoid any bias by the
researcher.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROBLEM

"... therapeutic touch is a nursing intervention that has the potential
for eliciting a state of physiological relaxation in patients and for decreasing
patients anxiety" (Heidt, 1991). The use of therapeutic touch is very important
to the nursing community. The need for immediate intervention in acute or
chronic pain could be handled at the bedside with no need to await a doctor's
order for pharmacological intervention. Anxiety could be lessened to let
patients rest more comfortably in the stressful hospital environment. Also
teaching could be enhanced in the less anxious ...

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main reason for this was to increase the
"descriptive data on patient care" so further research could be done and
therapeutic touch could be applied in nursing interventions. The strength of
this study came from its in depth look at two case studies and how the
therapeutic touch was used on two specific patients. The case studies gave an
in depth look at the patients history and treatment and out comes after
therapeutic touch was used. It also explained the settings and exactly what was
done step-by-step through the therapeutic touch treatment by Heidt herself. The
weakness of this study was also its strength. It had a very narrow focus and
was not applied to a large group.
In a ...

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