Ch 19 Complementary and
ALternative treatment Modalities
with complete solutions
Conventional Medicine - answer Also known as biomedicine or allopathic
medicine.
Used to describe Western medical practices.
Alternative medicine - answer Therapies that have been handed down for
centuries for the treatment of symptoms and diseases. When the
traditional or conventional treatment is replaced with a more holistic
treatment
Complementary therapies - answer therapies used in conjunction with
traditional conventional treatment
Concepts common to most alternative practices - answer Holism
Spirituality
Humanism Energy
Balance Healing environments
Holism - answer Belief that people are more than physical bodies with
fixable and replaceable parts. Combined mental, emotional, spiritual,
relationship, and environmental components; all play equal roles in a
person's state of health.
Integrative Medical Programs - answer Programs that are being
developed to allow health care consumers the opportunity to be treated
by a team of providers consisting of both conventional and complementary
practitioners
Holistic Nursing - answer To enhance healing of the whole person from
birth to death
, The philosophy based on the belief that in natures, entities such as
individuals and organisms function as a whole unit that can't be reduced
to the sum of their parts
Nursing Considerations - answer You must assess the patient for
complementary and alternative treatments for possible interactions with
traditional treatment
Often times, the patient may not even realize that they are causing
bigger problems because the alterative or complementary treatment is so
"normal" in their everyday life and their culture
Humanist Perspective - answer The mind and body are indivisible, people
have the power to solve their own problems, people are responsible for
the patterns of their lives, and well-being is a combination of personal
satisfaction and contributions to the larger community
Balance - answer Finding a desirable point between two opposite forces
rather than being purely in one state or another. It has physics, mental,
spiritual, emotional, and environmental components.
Spirituality - answer includes the drive to become all that one can be,
and is bound to intuition, creativity, and motivation. It involves
relationship with oneself, with others, and with a higher power. it gives
people meaning and purpose in their lives.
Energy - answer The concept of energy has been recognized in most
cultures for centuries. Energy is viewed as the force that integrates the
body, mind, and spirit; it is that which connects to everything.
Grounding - answer relates to one's connection with one's whole contact
with reality. It suggests stability, security, independence, having a solid
foundation, and living in the present rather than escaping into dreams
centering - answer process of focusing one's mind on the center of
energy allowing one to operate intuitively, with awareness, and to channel
energy throughout the body
ALternative treatment Modalities
with complete solutions
Conventional Medicine - answer Also known as biomedicine or allopathic
medicine.
Used to describe Western medical practices.
Alternative medicine - answer Therapies that have been handed down for
centuries for the treatment of symptoms and diseases. When the
traditional or conventional treatment is replaced with a more holistic
treatment
Complementary therapies - answer therapies used in conjunction with
traditional conventional treatment
Concepts common to most alternative practices - answer Holism
Spirituality
Humanism Energy
Balance Healing environments
Holism - answer Belief that people are more than physical bodies with
fixable and replaceable parts. Combined mental, emotional, spiritual,
relationship, and environmental components; all play equal roles in a
person's state of health.
Integrative Medical Programs - answer Programs that are being
developed to allow health care consumers the opportunity to be treated
by a team of providers consisting of both conventional and complementary
practitioners
Holistic Nursing - answer To enhance healing of the whole person from
birth to death
, The philosophy based on the belief that in natures, entities such as
individuals and organisms function as a whole unit that can't be reduced
to the sum of their parts
Nursing Considerations - answer You must assess the patient for
complementary and alternative treatments for possible interactions with
traditional treatment
Often times, the patient may not even realize that they are causing
bigger problems because the alterative or complementary treatment is so
"normal" in their everyday life and their culture
Humanist Perspective - answer The mind and body are indivisible, people
have the power to solve their own problems, people are responsible for
the patterns of their lives, and well-being is a combination of personal
satisfaction and contributions to the larger community
Balance - answer Finding a desirable point between two opposite forces
rather than being purely in one state or another. It has physics, mental,
spiritual, emotional, and environmental components.
Spirituality - answer includes the drive to become all that one can be,
and is bound to intuition, creativity, and motivation. It involves
relationship with oneself, with others, and with a higher power. it gives
people meaning and purpose in their lives.
Energy - answer The concept of energy has been recognized in most
cultures for centuries. Energy is viewed as the force that integrates the
body, mind, and spirit; it is that which connects to everything.
Grounding - answer relates to one's connection with one's whole contact
with reality. It suggests stability, security, independence, having a solid
foundation, and living in the present rather than escaping into dreams
centering - answer process of focusing one's mind on the center of
energy allowing one to operate intuitively, with awareness, and to channel
energy throughout the body
