What does holistic mean?

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What does holistic mean?
I have googled and read and read and googled but I just cant seem to grasp what it actually means. Its driving me nuts. Send help

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As a nurse, to me a holistic approach means to not only treat the somatic (physical) issues that a patient has, but to also consider the patient’s social, spiritual, relational and other needs. In short, to consider a patient as a human and not as something that needs to be cured.

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