This course applies content and strategies to develop lifestyle practices required of holistic practitioners. Holistic nursing requires developing consciousness of one's inner being, the capacity for supporting one's well-being, and a commitment to personal self-healing as an ethic of care. The Scope and Standards of Practice of the Holistic Nurses Association and the American Nurses Association acknowledges that self-development as a lifestyle pattern is foundational to fully practice from a caring science/unitary philosophy and to be competent in the creation of healing environments.