[The sound of gong: the relationship between music and nursing care]

Nurses focus on individual care in order to create the beauty of unique caring arts. But music therapy can also play an essential role to fill the gap between patients' care needs and individual wants. When nurses use music therapy as an intervention tool, they consider the process of progress, analyzing the data to show the outcome. How to apply music to the care process, improving the patients' care quality may, therefore, become an important task in future nursing training. However, due to the lack of specific and accurate measurements for music therapy, suggestions should be made for further investigation in three directions: 1. To develop a suitable Taiwanese style of music therapy. 2. To understand the mechanism of music therapy's physical and emotional effects on humans. 3. Quality assurance of music therapy in nursing care.