Abstract

Hawaii Pacific University Nursing Students and Faculty have indicated an investment in the utilization of Complementary and Alternative Therapies/Medicine (CAM) in caring for their overall wellbeing (Burrell, 2017). CAM utilization was reported as helpful by 76.5% of our faculty and students pre-pandemic. Reported satisfaction with CAM therapies was 61/73% pre-pandemic. We sent out a query to our current students and faculty asking how their self-care practices were influenced by the Covid Pandemic. While only 70.6% indicated CAM utilization, 66.2% indicated satisfaction with CAM. Surprisingly, 88% indicated that the Covid Pandemic had resulted in changes to their self-care practices. We’ll be looking at how they perceived their CAM practices as helpful throughout the pandemic and what they did to care for themselves during the pandemic.

Keywords

Covid Nursing Selfcare practices