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Background: In order for nurses to analyze what holistic nursing care is, which includes many concepts, it is necessary to make sense of the holistic care process, its components and effects. In this context, it is extremely important to determine how nurses perceive holistic care. Objectives: Research the aim of this study was to reveal the meanings attributed by nurses to holistic nursing care through metaphors. Methods: Research using a phenomenological (phenomenological) design, one of the qualitative research designs, was carried out with 227 nurses who agreed to participate in the research in a training and research hospital between March-April 2021. The data were obtained with a 10-question data collection form created by the researchers, 9 questions were asked in order to determine the demographic characteristics of the nurses and in order to determine the metaphors related to the concept of holistic care ‟holistic nursing care ………. like this because …………” sentence is required to be completed. The analysis of the data was evaluated with a five-stage content analysis. Results: Of the 227 nurses who agreed to participate in the study, it was seen that 209 nurses who filled out the form completely and had no inconsistency between the metaphor and the explanation produced 106 metaphors. These metaphors they created were examined in 9 categories: "reassuring, inclusive, helping, need/necessity, compulsory duty, professionalism, moral responsibility, unimportant/worthless, guiding/reflective". Nurses produced 89% positive metaphors. The metaphors most often produced by nurses are mother (n = 22, 20.8%), puzzle (n = 15, 14.2%), rainbow (n = 6, 5.7%), sun (n = 5, 4.7%), family (n = 5, 4.7%). Conclucion: It has been determined that nurses have predominantly positive metaphors about the perception of holistic care. For each category of metaphors, strategy planning should be done in order to support and develop positive perceptions and to change negative perceptions.

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