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Chapter 19 complementaryand alternative healing
modalities with complete
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Western medicine - answer An approach to health that focuses on the
use of science in the diagnosis and tx of health problems
Eastern medicine - answer Places greater emphasis on prevention and
natural healing
Conventional medicine, biomedicine, allopathic medicine - answer used
to describe western medical practices
Complementary medicine and alternative medicine (CAM) - answer
Includes as many as 1800 other therapies practiced all over the world
Many have been handed down for thousands of years
They are based on eastern medical systems developed by ancient
Egyptians Chinese Asians Indians Greeks and native Americans
Complementary medicine - answer Refers to the use of CAM in place of
the use of conventional medicine
Alternative medicine - answer Refers to the use of CAM in place of
conventional medicine
Integrative medicine - answer Combines tx of conventional medicine and
cam which is also called integrated medicine
, Holism - answer The combo of mental emotional spiritual and
environmental components
Humanism - answer Includes propositions such as the mind and body are
indivisible people
People are able to solve their own problems
People are responsible for patterns of their lives
Balance - answer Findings desirable point between two opposite forces
rather than being purely in one state or another
Spirituality - answer The drive to become all that one can be and is
bound to intuition creativity and motivation
Gives people purpose and meaning in life
Energy - answer The force that integrates the body mind and spirit
Connects everything
Grounding - answer Ones whole contact with reality
It means to have a solid foundation and living in the present
Centering - answer Being fully connected to their bodies and having all
energies meet
Allows you to operate intuitively and channel energy throughout the body
Healing environments - answer Created when nurses empower clients by
providing the knowledge skills and support that allow them to tap into
their inner wisdom and make healthy decisions for themselves
Nurses must also have their own healing environments, they need to know
how to replenish their emergy
System used health care practices: ayurveda - answer The Indian system
of medicine
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