Complementary and Alternative medicine

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