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Week 8 - Concept of Healing Flashcards

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Healing

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  • An inner process by which the person becomes whole
  • Occurs within the person and external interventions
  • mobilize the person’s inner healing resources
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Faith healing

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Based on prayer and religious faith (e.g. charismatics)

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Mind cures

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Based on changing mental states (e.g. scientology)

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Metaphysical healing

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Based on the non-reality of matter (e.g. Christian science)

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Spiritualism

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Based on intervention by spirits of the dead (e.g. Shamanism)

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Energy medicine

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Based on unblocking energy fields (e.g. Chinese medicine, reflexology, acupuncture homeopathy, ayurvedic medicine)

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Hypnotism

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Based on power of suggestion (behaviour modification)

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Germ theory

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Based on evading pathogenic organisms (scientific medicine)

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Approaches to healing

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Biomedicine

Holistic healing –> Complimentary and alt. approaches

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Complimentary and alternative medicine (CAM)

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  • Complement conventional medicine and can include numerous care approaches based on paradigms of health and healing
  • Primarily focused on the underlying causes of illness and imbalance in the body instead of on disease symptoms
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Holistic healing

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  • The division of the whole person into the three domains of body, mind and spirit is an old paradigm allusion
  • interconnected
  • Spiritual health is necessary for physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing
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Complimentary vs alternative approach

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  • Complimentary approaches align with or contribute to and enhance conventional medical treatments
  • Alternative approaches may be used instead of a conventional medical treatment
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What to consider with comp/alt therapies

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  • To assess risks and benefits
  • be informed**
  • Obtain consent – is the patient informed?
  • DOCUMENT
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Consent (CNO)

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*Required for any treatment except in certain emergency situations. Consent Must:

  • Relate to treatment being provided
  • Be informed
  • Be voluntary
  • Not be obtained through misrepresentation or fraud
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Inform consent includes:

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  • Nature of treatment
  • Expected benefits material risks / side effects
  • Alternative courses of action
  • Likely consequences of NOT having the treatment
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Ethical considerations for CAM

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  • When a nurse is asked by a patient to perform a complimentary therapy (CT):
  • Some complimentary therapies do not have a specific foundation
  • Some complementary therapies may pose risk
  • Patient’s may not disclose their use of CT to caregivers
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Integrative medicine

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  • Combination of best practices form conventional, complementary, and alternative approaches
  • Focuses on healing rather than disease, allows for interdisciplinary care

Nurses’ role in healing

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Nurses role in healing

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  • Facilitate another person’s growth and life processes towards wholeness
  • To assist with recovery from illness or with peaceful transition towards death
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Four fundamental elements of a healing encounter

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  • Nurse and client interact within a given context
  • The encounter is a response to a health experience
  • Nurse works in a pattern of mutuality with the client
  • Healing is facilitated in response to a client’s elicitation of nursing involvement and expertise
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Guiding principles of healing

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  • Health is a process that may contain disease
  • Ones attitudes and beliefs in life are a major factor in health and disease
  • Any modality or health system that supports healing should be valued
  • Each health system should be respected for its resources and the tools it offers while being challenged to prove its credibility
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Religion is

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  • Not same as spirituality
  • An organized system of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially the belief in or the worship of God or gods
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FICA Spiritual assessment tool

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F: Faith and belief
I: Importance and Influence
C: Community
A: Address

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Cue to spiritual references

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  • Environmental
  • Behaviour
  • Verbalization
  • Affect & Attitude
  • Relationships

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