Enlightened Charity
The
Holistic Nursing Care, Education, and
AdvicesConcerning
the Sick of Sister Matilda Coskery (1799 –
1870).
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Dr. Martha Mathews Libster, Ph.D., R.N.
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Dr. Martha Libster is an educator, clinical nurse specialist, healthcare
historian, and "Herbal Diplomat®" known internationally for her work
on the complementarity of nursing practice, technology, and healing traditions, in particular the use of botanical therapies. She is the director of Golden Apple Healing Arts, LLC. (www.GoldenAppleHealingArts.com) and is an educational specialist in developing online and tele-health resources, information, and education for the public and health professionals. She has created and directed numerous resource and information centers specializing in integrative care. Dr. Libster is presently the founder of The Bamboo Bridge, an international
online community, which promotes global partnership and cultural
diplomacy between nurses and traditional, community healers (www.BambooBridge.org). Dr. Libster began developing her passion for creating caring communities through technology when she trained with Ask-A-Nurse Montana in 1994 and while working as a nurse-counselor for Health Decisions International in 1997 under the tutelage of company founder, Dr. Don Vickery, NIH researcher in health promotion and author of the best-selling book, Take Care of Yourself.
Dr. Libster is an international speaker on the subjects of integrative
care, botanical therapies, self care, healing traditions, and the history of
healthcare and health reform. She has over 20 years of clinical experience
developing the integration of conventional nursing, technology, and
healing traditions. She holds Bachelor degrees in dance education/
movement therapy from New York University and in nursing from
Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles and a Master’s degree in
psychiatric nursing with a specialty in infant mental health from the
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Her doctorate degree is
in Humanities – Healthcare History from Oxford Brookes University,
Oxford, England. Dr. Libster is presently an Associate Professor of
Nursing in the Department of Graduate Nursing Science at East Carolina
University in Greenville, North Carolina where she lives in a historic
home and herb garden with her husband Harold and her West Highland
White Terrier, Sheeva. She is the daughter of a minister, a nurse educated
and inspired by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, and a student of
many religious traditions.
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