Careers and Opportunities: Complementary Therapies and Future Nursing

Chapter 7: Careers and Opportunities: Complementary Therapies and Future Nursing

Overview:

• Provides the author’s journey to discovering complementary therapies in nursing
• Describes and provides examples of multidisciplinary private practices
• Explains how complementary therapies will increase in acute care settings
• Offers examples of different care facilities with growing awareness of complementary therapies
• Lists clear examples of how and where complementary therapies can be implemented daily

Description:

This chapter explores many interesting possibilities for nurses and midwives attracted to expanding their practice with complementary therapies.

Topics:

• Introduction
• From humble beginnings
• A holistic multidisciplinary practice
• Industrial nursing
• Hospital practice: long term and acute
• Hospital in the home
• Aged care
• Community-based projects
• Public speaking
• Health promotion and preventative care
• Getting started
• Conclusion
• References

Speaker / Author:

Sue Cechner

RN, Aged care coordinator for the United Protestants Association, North Coast Region, New South Wales.

Sue’s varied nursing career has included being charge sister of a plastic surgery unit, sister-in-charge of the cardio-thoracic unit and a nurse educator at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and working in several London hospitals. She spent ten years on Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea. For the past eighteen years Sue has been involved in the aged care industry, previously as a director of nursing (in Victoria and NSW). She combines her role in aged care with facilitating workshops and running a successful complementary therapies practice.

Sue's career path has been very important to her and she feels fortunate to have been able to combine several of her interests— educating health care workers, aged care (in particular, dementia care) complementary therapies, communication with the family unit, taking control of health and wellbeing, stress management and research into the use of complementary therapies in nursing.

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