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trauma—but these patients are also in a mental, emotional, and spiritual crisis. Sedatives only provide a temporary solution. When the drugs wear off, anxiety returns or worsens, The holistic or whole-person model is the major conceptual basis of nursing education programs today but is still viewed as an esoteric term in many medical schools and especially by physicians. The word healing as used in a holistic model is often viewed as something soft and not scientifically based in medicine, but healing is innate, a natural process. A wound starts healing from the inside out after the “curing procedure” such as surgery or drug therapy has taken place. This has been known in nursing since Florence Nightingale postulated it over 100 years ago, yet there is still confusion over the difference between healing and curing.