Nurse's Touch
Fall 1988
"Welcome to this premiere issue of Nurse's Touch. More than ever before people are becoming aware of the healthful benefits of loving touch. Dr. F. Talbot in 1941 coined the phrase 'TLC' (tender loving care) from his observations of a grandmotherly hospital volunteer whose loving and cuddling of failure-to-thrive infants miraculously turned them around. He was mirroring a wonderment and appreciation from within the medical world of certain 'non-medical' factors, notably touch, that greatly facilitate getting well and staying well.
That fascination lives on. Nurses involved in bedside patient care know the healing value of caring touch, and some learn massage therapy to optimize the therapeutics of their caring. From the early touch studies of Harlow with rhesus monkeys to the more recent research in the Therapeutic Touch of Dolores Krieger, RN, the scientific documentation and validation of touch therapies as a vital component of well-being are well established---and of course, still growing.
The aim of Nurse's Touch is to share with you this wonderment and fascination with healing touch modalities, and to help anchor them in the mainstream of health care delivery. Join us as we explore 'high touch for a high tech world'."