Complementary & Integrative Therapies for Nursing Practice, 5th edition

  • Karen Lee Fontaine

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Overview

Complementary & Integrative Therapies for Nursing Practice is the most complete research-based guide to complementary and alternative medicine, from a nursing perspective. With an easy-to-follow format, the text will help you assimilate thousands of years of healing methods into Western health care practices. You'll learn techniques for improving your patients' health as well as your own.

The 5th Edition further explores practical applications of complementary and integrative medicine, while providing new research, resources and topics of interest. It places more emphasis on strategies for incorporating alternative therapies into your nursing practice and your own life. New topics include African healing, forest bathing, health disparities, health literacy, Native American sacred land, and Precision Medicine Initiative, among others.

Published by Pearson (June 9th 2021) - Copyright © 2019

ISBN-13: 9780137530564

Subject: Maternity & Pediatrics

Category: Complementary & Integrative Therapies for Nursing Practice

Overview

PART 1: HEALING PRACTICES: COMPLEMENTARY AND INTEGRATIVE THERAPIES FOR NURSES
1. Integrative Healing
2. Basic Concepts Guiding Integrative Therapies
3. The Role of Evidence-Based Health Care in Complementary and Integrative Therapies

PART 2: SYSTEMATIZED HEALTH-CARE PRACTICES
4. Traditional Chinese Medicine
5. Ayurvedic Medicine
6. Native American Healing and Curanderismo

PART 3: BOTANICAL HEALING
7. Herbs and Nutritional Supplements
8. Aromatherapy
9. Homeopathy
10. Naturopathy

PART 4: MANUAL HEALING METHODS
11. Chiropractic
12. Massage
13. Pressure Point Therapies
14. Hand-Mediated Biofield Therapies
15. Combined Physical and Biofield Therapy

PART 5: MIND-BODY TECHNIQUES
16. Yoga
17. Meditation
18. Hypnotherapy and Guided Imagery
19. Dreamwork
20. Intuition
21. Music as a Therapeutic Tool
22. Biofeedback
23. Movement-Oriented Therapies

PART 6: SPIRITUAL THERAPIES
24. Shamans
25. Faith and Prayer

PART 7: OTHER THERAPIES
26. Bioelectromagnetics
27. Animal-Facilitated Therapy

Appendix: Complementary Therapies for Common Health Problems

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