Carla Mariano, EdD, RN, AHN-C, FAAIM, is Associate Professor and Coordinator, Advanced Practice Holistic Nurse Practitioner Program and Scholar in Residence at the John Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, Division of Nursing, The Steinhardt School of Education, New York University. She teaches a doctoral course on Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry; guides numerous doctoral dissertations using qualitative methodology; and teaches master's courses on theoretical foundations of holistic nursing, complementary/alternative modalities, and crisis theory and intervention. Dr. Mariano has conduc...