Complementary Therapies
Nurses as Wounded Healers (spirituality)
This chapter presents the notion of the wounded healer as a pattern for the preparation of a healer who is equipped to work with the whole person, body, mind, emotion and soul/spirit...
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Relaxation - The Learned Response
This chapter instructs readers on the link between the mind and the body, and PNI research that provides theoretical support for the use of various complementary therapies. These findings are clarified and exercises are included...
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Administration, Office Procedures and Budget Issues
Guidelines for facilitating the efficient and smooth implementation and maintenance of a new volunteer program.
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Complementary Therapies in Aged Care
This chapter offers nurses an alternative for managing the challenging behaviours of clients with dementia. It provides a comprehensive coverage of the CT policy and documentation used at The Cedars Nursing Home...
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Evaluating the Volunteers and the Program
This session will discuss some aspects required for evaluating the contributions of a volunteer program and how to measure the volunteer program goals.
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Developing Clinical Practice Guidelines
This chapter deals with the development of policies for the workplace. Descriptions of the process of developing complementary therapy guidelines for a large teaching hospital, commencing with the rationale for the use of guidelines are included...
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Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Where stress and other anxieties have caused a patient to be overcome with emotion, Progressive Muscle Relaxation can be utilised to assist the patient in releasing these concerns and thus more rationally dealing with their problems...
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Nutrition as a Complementary Therapy
This chapter sets the tone for complementary therapies as agents of healing and health promotion. The relationship between diet, health and disease with particular focus on aetiology of disease is described. Specified nutrition regimes are also provided..
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Complementary Care (Palliative)
This chapter describes some of the many forms of complementary care
that can be provided to an older person who is dying. It also discusses complementary care as an important component of total care and not just an ‘optional extra’...
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Nursing Older People Experiencing Pain
Nursing strategies to assist an older person experiencing pain. How to manage pain in an older person. Management of pharmacological control of pain.
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Complementary Therapies (in aged care)
There are a variety of strategies that nurses can offer their patients to improve the maintenance of personal health. In this chapter, learn about popular forms of complementary therapy and how they promote well‐being in the elderly...
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The Use of Volunteers within the Health Services
This session will discuss the characteristics of an effective volunteer program.
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Nursing and the Role of Animals
This chapter introduces a complementary therapy which is not as yet well represented in the nursing literature. As well as summarising the literature about pet therapy, this chapter provides guidelines for its application in nursing practice...
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Choosing Volunteers
Overview of a comprehensive Volunteer Orientation Program that will effectively meet the needs of new volunteers within a health care
network.
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Nursing and Complementary Therapies: A Natural Partnership
This chapter takes a chronological view of the relationship between nursing and natural therapies. The historical material is contrasted with the use of complementary therapies in contemporary, bio-medically oriented health care...
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The Activity Schedule for Patients
This fact sheet is a practical worksheet, which cancer patients can use to both record their events, and motivate themselves in performing other everyday activities.
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Research Issues in Complementary Therapies and Holistic Care
This chapter discusses the problems involved in researching complex areas of care. It focuses on the point that complementary therapies and holistic nursing are not necessarily the same, and that different research approaches may be needed...
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Prelims - Complementary Therapies in Nursing and Midwifery
Prelims: Foreword, Contents, Dedication, Acknowledgments, Glossary of terms & Preface
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Spirituality as a Healing Force
This chapter offers ideas, not opinions fixed like concrete in my mind, but a glimpse into my ongoing and ever-evolving view of spirituality — what it is and what it implies within the uniqueness of the nurse-client relationship.
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Therapeutic Touch and Healing Touch
This chapter explores the related therapies of Therapeutic Touch (TT) and Healing Touch (HT). Their origins are explored and examples are presented along with their applications in nursing...
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