Reiki Practice: A Nurse's Rx for Self-Care

by Elizabeth Scala

Nursing leadership typically desires a nursing staff that is satisfied, engaged and resilient. Yet far too often, competing priorities come into play. Heavy focus is given to safety, healthcare quality, and patient satisfaction. Nurses are required to spend time and energy on policies and procedures, clinical informatics and regulatory affairs.

How can nursing staff remain engaged when the topic of ‘resilience’ gets quickly bumped from the agenda? In 'Reiki Practice: A Nurse’s Rx for Self-Care', Reiki Nurse Elizabeth Scala offers a solution.

In this quick and easy to read eBook, Scala shares her journey through Reiki Practice with an inside look at each of the Reiki Principles. Elizabeth gently describes Reiki as a healing modality, all the while, applying this therapeutic practice to our nursing careers.

Inviting Reiki Practice into our roles as nurses is complementary care at its best.

46 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 13, 2014

About the author

Elizabeth Scala holds bachelor's degrees in nursing and psychology from the University of Delaware and a master's degree in business and nursing from Johns Hopkins University. She is a certified health and wellness coach through Wellcoaches and the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, as well as a Reiki master teacher.

Her career experience includes working as a nurse in adult inpatient psychiatry, running an exercise program for physician-referred clients at a community health center, and working on a nursing research fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital, before becoming an entrepreneur at Nursing from Within.

Now, she brings innovative new ideas to the nursing profession as a speaker, author, workshop and retreat facilitator, and virtual conference host in addition to teaching Reiki to nurses.

She lives in Maryland, with her spouse and their one dog, where she enjoys the beach, jigsaw puzzles, gardening, yoga, Reiki, and dancing to her favorite jam band, moe.