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Rituals: the 'soul' purpose.

D Freshwater1, F C Biley

  • 1Homerton College, Cambridge School of Health Studies. dawnf@dial.pipex.com

Complementary Therapies in Nursing & Midwifery
|April 3, 1999
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Nurses recognize the importance of maintaining patient routines for comfort and normality. However, this paper explores the symbolic necessity of nursing rituals, cautioning against dismissing them without understanding their deeper purpose.

Area of Science:

  • Nursing
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

Background:

  • Nursing care often prioritizes maintaining patients' daily routines and rituals to promote comfort and a sense of normality.
  • There is a perceived paradox where nurses value patient rituals yet criticize their own ritualistic practices.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To expand on the defense of rituals in nursing practice.
  • To explore the symbolic and ancestral necessity of rituals within the nursing context.
  • To examine the potential risks of dismissing nursing rituals without a full understanding of their latent functions.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review and theoretical analysis.
  • Exploration of archetypal psychology to understand the deeper meaning of rituals.
  • Critical examination of ritualistic practices in nursing.

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Main Results:

  • Nursing's implicit recognition of patient rituals highlights their importance in care.
  • Self-criticism exists regarding nurses' own ritualistic behaviors, often perceived as lacking value.
  • Dismissing rituals without understanding their symbolic and ancestral roots may pose hazards to the nursing environment.

Conclusions:

  • Rituals hold a significant, often unacknowledged, symbolic and ancestral necessity in nursing.
  • A deeper understanding of the latent purposes of nursing rituals is crucial.
  • Further exploration is needed to appreciate the value and potential risks associated with ritualistic practices in nursing.