Reclaiming the Sacred Heart of Healthcare: Celebrating Spiritually Integrated Heart Failure Management

by Barbara a Larrabee

Overview

"We do not have to choose" between science and spirituality in our work as providers of healthcare, Larrabee assures the biomedical community. A thoughtful integration of both aspects of shared humanity could make for better clinicians, more satisfied patients, and greater ease in navigating daily life. Backed by research, personal vignettes and the cumulative experience of over 40 years of nursing experience and heart failure management, Larrabee invites readers to reclaim their own sacred hearts, using wisdom and compassion as a guide to fully integrated living.Written from the perspective of advanced heart failure management, this invitation to integrated, devotional living is open and accessible to everyone, regardless of occupation or spiritual beliefs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780692142721
Publisher:	Barbara Larrabee
Publication date:	07/19/2018
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.42(d)

About the Author

Barbara Larrabee is a registered nurse with more than forty years of clinical nursing experience specializing in cardiac nursing, and over twenty of those years devoted exclusively to heart failure management. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree, a Master of Arts in Health Arts and Sciences, and certifications in both Case Management (CCM) and Heart Failure Management (CHFN). She is a member of the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses, (AAHFN), and the American Holistic Nurses Association, (AHNA). She is also a bioenergetics practitioner independent from her nursing practice, using a variety of modalities to facilitate an individual's experience of healing. Barbara is a kirtan devotee and maintains a strong daily mantra and meditation practice that spans multiple spiritual paradigms. Having made a decision to lead a fully devotional life that would honor both her experience of the Divine in everyday life and her background in science, Barbara returned to school after many years and attended Goddard College in Vermont. Exploring the areas of her passion and interest at Goddard, she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree for her work blending Heart Failure Management and Spiritual Integration in Western Biomedicine. She has now completed graduate studies at Goddard College, deepening her work in spiritually integrated healthcare as it applies to heart failure management.