DSCC Fundamentals of Nursing Exam
Three Growth and Development,
Hygiene, Complementary Therapy, and
Med Admin Verified Questions and 100%
Correct Answers 2025/2026
✅What are the two different perspectives of complementary therapy?🔷-biomedical
perspective: allopathy
-holism
✅What does the biomedical perspective consist of?🔷-conventional western
medicine/treatment
-treats pathologies and symptoms
✅What does the holism perspective consist of?🔷-treats the whole person
-preventative strategies; lifestyle changes
-optimal wellness
✅What is conventional medicine?🔷-form of standard medical care practiced by
medical doctors, RNs, psychologists, physical therapist, and other health care
professionals during a course of treatment
-known as mainstream, biomedicine, allopathic, orthodox medicine, or western
-includes prescriptive medicine, radiation, or surgery
✅What is complementary and alternative therapy?🔷-views health and wellness
through a broader lens and seeks to bring the client to their best state of wellness
-uses multiple disciplines including manipulation of the body, energy, movement,
traditional/indigenous/world therapies, and use of herbs, vitamins, and minerals
✅What is modality?🔷-method of treating a disorder
-traditional and holistic modalities
✅What are traditional modalities?🔷-antibiotics
-surgery
-breathing treatments
✅What are holistic modalities?🔷-complementary: treatment used together with
traditional western medical care (pain meds w/ CBD)
-alternative: treatment used instead of traditional medical care (CBD only)
,✅What is integrative healthcare?🔷-encompasses all treatment modalities
✅What are tenets of holistic care?🔷-people (unique, connect to/interact w/
environment)
-health (spiritual component, self-healing, balance, integration)
-illness (constitutes an imbalance, allows growth)
✅Examples of alternative medical systems?🔷-ayuveda
-chinese medicine
-acupuncture
-homeopathy
-naturopathy
✅What is ayuveda?🔷-attributes health to balance between three forces:
1. creation (kapha)
2. preservation (pitta)
3. destruction (vata)
✅What is chinese medicine?🔷-each person has his or own balance of yin and yang
(complementary but opposing life forces)
-five elements of earth, water, wood, fire, and air/metal
✅What is acupuncture?🔷-the penetration of the skin with thin metallic needles to
stimulate anatomical structures of the body
✅What is homeopathy?🔷-based on an understanding of how the body heals itself
and an acceptance that all symptoms represent the body's attempt to restore itself to
health
✅What is naturopathy?🔷-system of healing based on the healing power of nature
✅What are mind-body interventions?🔷-prayer
-meditation
-imagery
-humor
-music
-yoga
-hypnosis
-biofeedback
✅What is prayer?🔷-dialogue with a spiritual being
✅What is meditation?🔷-uses practices that help to quiet and focus the mind and
induce relaxation
, ✅What is imagery?🔷-uses the imagination to create a desired event or scenario
✅What is humor?🔷-reading and telling jokes
-viewing funny movies
-simply appreciating the humor of situations all help release tension and increase
coping abilities
✅What is music therapy?🔷-evidence-based use of music interventions within a
therapeutic relationship to achieve individualized goals
✅What is yoga?🔷-though many people practice yoga as exercise, it is designed to
integrate body, mind, and spirit.
-typically combines physical postures, breathing techniques, and meditation or
relaxation
✅What is hypnosis?🔷-trance-like state characterized by relaxed brain waves, hyper-
suggestibility, and heightened imagination
✅What is biofeedback?🔷-technique by which some people can learn voluntary
control over involuntary activities such as heart rate
✅What are biology-based methods?🔷-dietary therapies
-herbs
-aromatherapy
-non-herbal dietary supplements
✅What are dietary therapies?🔷-a low sodium diet is part of the treatment plan for
patients with hypertension
✅What are herbs?🔷-consumers state their primary reason for using herbal
supplements is to promote overall health and wellness
✅What is aromatherapy?🔷-use of essential oils, which are concentrated extracts of
roots, leaves, or blossoms, to enhance physical and mental well-being
✅What are non-herbal dietary supplements?🔷-not plant products
-hormones, probiotics, vitamins, fish oil, and minerals
✅Common herbal agents?🔷-aloe
-chamomile
-echinacea
-garlic
-ginger
-ginkgo biloba
Three Growth and Development,
Hygiene, Complementary Therapy, and
Med Admin Verified Questions and 100%
Correct Answers 2025/2026
✅What are the two different perspectives of complementary therapy?🔷-biomedical
perspective: allopathy
-holism
✅What does the biomedical perspective consist of?🔷-conventional western
medicine/treatment
-treats pathologies and symptoms
✅What does the holism perspective consist of?🔷-treats the whole person
-preventative strategies; lifestyle changes
-optimal wellness
✅What is conventional medicine?🔷-form of standard medical care practiced by
medical doctors, RNs, psychologists, physical therapist, and other health care
professionals during a course of treatment
-known as mainstream, biomedicine, allopathic, orthodox medicine, or western
-includes prescriptive medicine, radiation, or surgery
✅What is complementary and alternative therapy?🔷-views health and wellness
through a broader lens and seeks to bring the client to their best state of wellness
-uses multiple disciplines including manipulation of the body, energy, movement,
traditional/indigenous/world therapies, and use of herbs, vitamins, and minerals
✅What is modality?🔷-method of treating a disorder
-traditional and holistic modalities
✅What are traditional modalities?🔷-antibiotics
-surgery
-breathing treatments
✅What are holistic modalities?🔷-complementary: treatment used together with
traditional western medical care (pain meds w/ CBD)
-alternative: treatment used instead of traditional medical care (CBD only)
,✅What is integrative healthcare?🔷-encompasses all treatment modalities
✅What are tenets of holistic care?🔷-people (unique, connect to/interact w/
environment)
-health (spiritual component, self-healing, balance, integration)
-illness (constitutes an imbalance, allows growth)
✅Examples of alternative medical systems?🔷-ayuveda
-chinese medicine
-acupuncture
-homeopathy
-naturopathy
✅What is ayuveda?🔷-attributes health to balance between three forces:
1. creation (kapha)
2. preservation (pitta)
3. destruction (vata)
✅What is chinese medicine?🔷-each person has his or own balance of yin and yang
(complementary but opposing life forces)
-five elements of earth, water, wood, fire, and air/metal
✅What is acupuncture?🔷-the penetration of the skin with thin metallic needles to
stimulate anatomical structures of the body
✅What is homeopathy?🔷-based on an understanding of how the body heals itself
and an acceptance that all symptoms represent the body's attempt to restore itself to
health
✅What is naturopathy?🔷-system of healing based on the healing power of nature
✅What are mind-body interventions?🔷-prayer
-meditation
-imagery
-humor
-music
-yoga
-hypnosis
-biofeedback
✅What is prayer?🔷-dialogue with a spiritual being
✅What is meditation?🔷-uses practices that help to quiet and focus the mind and
induce relaxation
, ✅What is imagery?🔷-uses the imagination to create a desired event or scenario
✅What is humor?🔷-reading and telling jokes
-viewing funny movies
-simply appreciating the humor of situations all help release tension and increase
coping abilities
✅What is music therapy?🔷-evidence-based use of music interventions within a
therapeutic relationship to achieve individualized goals
✅What is yoga?🔷-though many people practice yoga as exercise, it is designed to
integrate body, mind, and spirit.
-typically combines physical postures, breathing techniques, and meditation or
relaxation
✅What is hypnosis?🔷-trance-like state characterized by relaxed brain waves, hyper-
suggestibility, and heightened imagination
✅What is biofeedback?🔷-technique by which some people can learn voluntary
control over involuntary activities such as heart rate
✅What are biology-based methods?🔷-dietary therapies
-herbs
-aromatherapy
-non-herbal dietary supplements
✅What are dietary therapies?🔷-a low sodium diet is part of the treatment plan for
patients with hypertension
✅What are herbs?🔷-consumers state their primary reason for using herbal
supplements is to promote overall health and wellness
✅What is aromatherapy?🔷-use of essential oils, which are concentrated extracts of
roots, leaves, or blossoms, to enhance physical and mental well-being
✅What are non-herbal dietary supplements?🔷-not plant products
-hormones, probiotics, vitamins, fish oil, and minerals
✅Common herbal agents?🔷-aloe
-chamomile
-echinacea
-garlic
-ginger
-ginkgo biloba
