Kozier & Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing Concepts, Process, and Practice
LESSON 2: Complementary and Alternative Healing Modalities
INTRODUCTION
● Western medical
- Conventional medicine
- Biomedicine
- Allopathic medicine
● Eastern medicine
- Greater emphasis on prevention, natural healing
● The differences between Western and Eastern medicine are not about
geographic location
,● Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)
- As many as 1,800 other therapies practiced all over the world over
thousands of years
- Based on ancient medical systems
- Evolution in the U.S.
a.Bioelectromagnetic therapy
b.Chiropractic therapy
● Complementary
- CAM together with conventional medicine
● Alternative
- CAM in place of conventional medicine
● Integrative
- Treatments from conventional medicine
- CAM for which there is high-quality evidence of safety and
effectiveness
, BASIC CONCEPTS
1.Holism
2.Humanism
3.Balance
4.Spirituality
5.Energy
6.Healing Environments
● Holism
- Paradigm of whole systems
- Belief that people are more than physical bodies
- Combined mental, emotional, spiritual, relationship, and environmental
components
- Interventions individualized within the entire context of a person's life
LESSON 2: Complementary and Alternative Healing Modalities
INTRODUCTION
● Western medical
- Conventional medicine
- Biomedicine
- Allopathic medicine
● Eastern medicine
- Greater emphasis on prevention, natural healing
● The differences between Western and Eastern medicine are not about
geographic location
,● Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)
- As many as 1,800 other therapies practiced all over the world over
thousands of years
- Based on ancient medical systems
- Evolution in the U.S.
a.Bioelectromagnetic therapy
b.Chiropractic therapy
● Complementary
- CAM together with conventional medicine
● Alternative
- CAM in place of conventional medicine
● Integrative
- Treatments from conventional medicine
- CAM for which there is high-quality evidence of safety and
effectiveness
, BASIC CONCEPTS
1.Holism
2.Humanism
3.Balance
4.Spirituality
5.Energy
6.Healing Environments
● Holism
- Paradigm of whole systems
- Belief that people are more than physical bodies
- Combined mental, emotional, spiritual, relationship, and environmental
components
- Interventions individualized within the entire context of a person's life
