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nurse what stake is at hand and how the use of technology could make a big change terms of given efficient care. The trend in 33 | P a g e which the use of technology in healthcare field have a good advantages, nurses have to upgrade and adapt to their use. (1, 2, 6, and 8). According to O’Regan (2010) She stated that education give a huge boost to the development of nursing practice which is seen as a continuous and dynamic. Further stated that education with special skills of therapies is not needed to international nursing (1). Lack of knowledge and skills of nurses when it comes to sexual health education counselling brings nurses confusion and shame when patient are willing to discuss the sexual problems to health care professionals. In the sense of providing holistic nursing care this problem need to be addressed (2). Religion beliefs Our beliefs may affect us as a nurse to fully give care to our best believing the receiver’s belief is different from the care giver. It is also believe by many that challenges faced by a nurse who wishes to administer this spiritual care and holds a personal commitment to the Christian faith which might not be always true. Additionally, it is not ethical for a nurse to decide patient care based on his/her religion beliefs. Spiritual care cannot be however taken away from physical, social and psychological care because their combination makes a whole person in regards to holistic care (4, 5). Even according to Katie Erikkson’s assumption that stated the human being is fundamentally a religious being, but all human beings have not recognized this dimension (Alligood & Tomey, 2010 p. 197) dealing with patient’s high hope for spirituality, nurses have to consider the sociological and cultural aspects. Also young nurse also mix the term spirituality with religion which are two different thing to be learn my nurses (4). Nurses are agues to know their limit or to which extent they feel comfortable in meeting with patient with spiritual need. It is highly recommended to nurse to seek the help of priest or imam when patient are willing to discuss about their spiritual faith. 34 | P a g e Meeting Patient need The main of holistic care is to meet patient need and consider them as a whole but the challenges health care givers face might be meeting the patient need. Many factors also affect meeting patient’s need which varies from age group, sex, social class and cultural background. When patient need is been put into consideration, certain point have to be put in mind such as what a patient want as individual and patient preference, most likely also patient values, respect, support and patient right must be remembered and access but this things mention are challenging also patient need varies from one patient to another, all patient have to access differently for example palliative care patient might decide not tell the implication of a very serious diagnosis which makes it difficult for nurses to access their needs. Family intervention in given care might also have a large role in meeting patient needs to provide full support. Lastly, health care professionals may also lack the basic training to support and educate patient. Nurses are the one who are more close to the patient and their family compare to doctors, nurses also have to acquire the basic skill to listen, communicate efficiently and understand patient (3, 7, and 10). 7 DISCUSSION In this study, authors seek answers to nurses’ view on holistic nursing and also seek answer to the challenges nurses face in practicing holistic nursing. Our results show that three (3) different factors affect nurse’s view on holistic nursing and nurse challenges practicing holistic nursing. Research question seeking nurses challenges yield three significant result, meeting patient need, religion belief and finally education. Meeting patient need is a big problem in health care field. Patient expectation according to the author also affect the fact of meeting patient need. The result suggest that social class, culture, environment participate to also affect patient need. Author totally agree with this because human wants and expectations varies from one another. 35 | P a g e Previous study according to Graham found that the rate in which technology is moving, nurses have to recognize it and also move with the pace otherwise the traditional skills of nurses in caring will be null. In the author’s opinion what he think about is statement to my understanding might be that for instance measuring blood pressure, it used to be done manually but this days there is a digital measuring instrument that does the job faster and give the result in digital form making it easy to use and less error compared to the old system of measuring blood pressure. Nurse have to improve, challenges themselves to keep up with the fast growing technologies, Nursing institutions should also arranges supportive courses for health care professional. However, he stated that new technology will not override the traditional nursing care but will only increase the effectiveness in nursing pedagogy and enlighten patient more about their own care. Additionally, religion in nursing is been taking to another level because people this days are linking religion to spirituality Our beliefs may affect us as a nurse to fully give care to our best believing the receiver’s belief is different from the care giver. It is also believe by many that challenges
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