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Complementary/Intregrative Therapies Flashcards

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What are complementary therapies?

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Therapies used together with conventional treatment recommended by a person’s health care provider.

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What does complementary therapies include?

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Therapeutic touch, hypnotherapy, chiropractic therapy, guided imagery and breath work, relaxation, exercise, massage, reflexology, prayer, biofeedback, creative therapies (art, music or dance therapy), meditation, and herbs/supplements

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What is another term for complementary therapies?

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Integrative therapies

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What are alternative therapies?

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When non-pharmacological therapies such as exercise, chiropractic, and herbal supplements are used in place of conventional pharmacological or other medical procedures and become the primary treatment.

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What is holistic nursing?

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Treats the mind-body-spirit of a patient, using interventions such as relaxation therapy, music therapy, touch therapies, and guided imagery.

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What is integrative nursing?

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A way of being-knowing-doing that advances the health and well-being of persons, families, and communities through caring-healing relationships

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What are the 5 uses of complementary, integrative and alternative therapies?

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  1. Address stress-induced illness
  2. Manage symptoms of chronic disease
  3. Addressing emotional and spiritual needs of the client
  4. Improve quality of life
  5. Improve general well-being
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What are some nursing-accessible therapies?

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Breathing, thinking and concentration, presence, movement

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Describe the stress response.

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Normal and helpful in short-term situations

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Describe the relaxation response.

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Reduces generalized cognitive, physiological, and/or behavioral arousal. Occurs through techniques that incorporate a repetitive mental focus and the adoption of a calm, peaceful attitude.

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What is progressive relaxation?

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A person learns to detect subtle localized muscle tension sequentially, one muscle group at a time and differentiates among tension and relaxation.

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What is passive relaxation?

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Still the mind and body intentionally without the need to tighten and relax any body part.

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What are the 5 clinical applications of relaxation therapy?

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  1. Lower blood pressure
  2. Decrease heart rate
  3. Decrease muscle tension
  4. Improve well-being
  5. Reduce symptom distress
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What are the limitations of relaxation therapy?

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  • There are reports of increased sensitivity in detecting muscle tension
  • New symptoms may indicate progression of an existing condition or a new illness
  • Assess the client: physiological and psychological status
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What is meditation?

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Any activity that limits stimulus input by focusing attention to a single unchanging stimulus. Has roots in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism.

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What are 5 clinical applications of meditation?

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  1. Lowers oxygen consumption
  2. Reduces respiratory rate
  3. Reduces heart rate
  4. Improves feelings of well-being
  5. Reduces anxiety
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What are the limitations of meditation?

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  • Assess the client
  • Strong fear of losing control
  • Some individuals also become hypertensive during meditation
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What is imagery?

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Uses the conscious mind to create mental images to stimulate physical changes in the body, improve perceived well-being, and/or enhance self-awareness

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What are the 4 clinical applications of imagery?

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  1. Control/relieve pain
  2. Reduces stress-related symptoms
  3. Improves sleep
  4. Can relieve symptoms associated with chronic conditions
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What are the limitations to imagery?

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  • Assess the client
  • Clients with COPD or asthma may experience increased airway constriction
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What are training-specific therapies?

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Complementary treatments that can only be administered by trained professionals. Requires postgraduate certificates, degrees, national certification, or additional licensure.

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What is biofeedback?

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  • Mind-body technique
  • Uses instruments to teach control over physiological responses
    -Instruments measure, process, and provide information about muscle tension, cardiac activity, respiratory rates, brain-wave patterns, and autonomic nervous system activity.
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What are the 4 clinical applications of biofeedback?

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  1. Reduce headache pain
  2. Shown benefit as adjunctive therapy for post-prostatectomy urinary incontinence
  3. Improve fecal incontinence
  4. Stroke recovery
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What are the limitations to biofeedback?

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  • Assess the client
  • Use with precaution in clients with psychological or neurological conditions
  • May need medication adjustments as a result of biofeedback
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Describe acupuncture.

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Regulates or realigns the vital energy (qi), which flows through the body in channels. modifies the body’s response to pain.

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What are the 8 clinical applications of acupuncture?

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  1. Modifies pain response
  2. Modifies processing of pain by central neural pathways
  3. Low back pain
  4. Myofascial pain
  5. Chemo-induced nausea and vomiting
  6. Tension headaches
  7. Migraine prevention
  8. Post-operative pain
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What are the limitations to acupuncture?

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  • Practitioner with appropriate training
  • Sterilized needles
  • contraindicated in clients with bleeding disorders or skin infections
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What is therapeutic touch (TT)?

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Affects energy fields with conscious intent to help or heal. Uses the energy of the provider to positively influence the patient’s energy field.

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What are the 4 clinical applications of therapeutic touch?

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  1. Pain
  2. Dementia
  3. Trauma
  4. Anxiety
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What are the limitations of therapeutic touch?

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  • Assess your patient
  • Inappropriate for clients with sensitivity to touch, past traumatic experiences
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What is chiropractic therapy?

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  • Uses manipulative body-based therapy to normalize the relationship between structure and function
  • Belief is that body structure (particularly the spine) and the ability of the body to function normally are closely related.
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What are the 3 clinical applications to chiropractic therapy?

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  1. Improves pain: back pain, osteoarthritis joint pain, cancer pain
  2. Can improve disability
  3. Asthma in children and adolescents
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What are the limitations to chiropractic therapy?

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  • Contraindicated in those with: bone and joint infections, acute injury to the spinal cord caused by compression, fractures, dislocations, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis
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Describe natural products and herbal therapies.

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  • A natural product is a chemical compound or substance produced by a living organism
  • Herbal medicines (AKA botanicals), dietary supplements, vitamins, minerals, mycotherapies (fungi-based products), essential oils, and probiotics
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What is The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (1994)?

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Allowed company’s to sell as supplements as long as they promise not to make medical claims on their label

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What are the 3 clinical applications of natural products and herbal therapy?

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  1. Depressive symptoms
  2. Anti-inflammatory effects
  3. Blood sugar changes
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What are the limitations to natural products and herbal therapies?

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  • Natural does not mean safe
  • can interact with prescribed medications

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