Chapter 2 Health, wellness, and complementary medicine PrepU

While assessing a client, the client tells the nurse that he is a follower of traditional Chinese medicine and the concept of qi. Based on the nurse's understanding of this concept, which treatment modality would the nurse expect the client to mention?

Acupuncture

When providing care to a client, the nurse integrates knowledge that a client's beliefs and actions are related and influenced by his personal expectations in relation to health and illness. The nurse is demonstrating understanding of which health model?

Health belief modl

A nurse educator uses models of health and illness when teaching. Which model of health and illness places high-level health and death on opposite ends of a graduated scale?

Health-Illness Continuum

The nursing instructor is discussing alternative therapy with a group of students. She explains that living organisms are "continuously connecting and interacting with their environment." Furthermore, the connecting and interacting signifies that the human body is a unified dynamic whole. The instructor is describing what theory to the students?

Holism perspective

A nurse uses Therapeutic Touch to decrease a postoperative client's nausea. Which of the following is a principle of this CAT modality?

Illness is an imbalance in a person's energy field.

The client is experiencing a cold and has sinus congestion. The client is prescribed a decongestant by his primary care provider. The client has a poor response to the decongestant and seeks to include acupuncture treatment. The nurse explains the use of a decongestant and acupuncture at the same time is called what type of therapy?

Integrative

A nurse is researching a standardized herbal supplement to help a client with pain. What does the word standardized mean?

It contains a certain amount of an active ingredient.

A nurse is practicing imagery to relieve stress. What might accompany the imagery to even further promote relaxation?

Listening to music

A client asks the nurse about using acupuncture as a treatment for various conditions. For which condition would the nurse most likely recommend the its use?

Osteoarthritis

A nurse is immunizing children against measles. This is an example of what level of preventive care?

Primary

A group of students is reviewing information about traditional Chinese medicine as a complete healing system that includes acupuncture, massage, herbal treatments, nutrition, moxibustion, movement, and meditation. The students demonstrate understanding of this concept when they identify the core of traditional Chinese medicine as:

Qi

Which is an example of tertiary health promotion?

Rehabilitation

Nurses promote the needs of patients as an integral part of each person's human dimension. Which needs are being met when a nurse recommends a senior citizen community center for an older patient who is living alone?

Sociocultural needs

Which philosophy underlies the use of CAT?

The mind, body, and spirit function as a unified whole.

A nurse practitioner uses integrative care in his practice. What does this mean?

The nurse uses both allopathic medicine and CAT.

Which of the following nursing interventions is an example of tertiary preventive care?

assisting with speech therapy for a client with a traumatic brain injury

Which of the following considerations should a nurse prioritize relating to the use of herbs and supplements by a client?

potential interactions with drugs

On the advice of friends, a client on a palliative care unit has requested acupuncture. What it is the goal of this form of CAT?

restoring a healthy flow of energy along the meridians of the body

The nurse is teaching a patient how to use herbs and supplements as part of an integrated treatment plan. Which teaching points would the nurse include? (Select all that apply.)

• Buy herbs and supplements that are standardized. • Be knowledgeable about the product and its therapeutic actions. • Give the product adequate time to work.

When providing holistic care to a client, the nurse recognizes that which of the following is necessary? Select all that apply.

• Understand and respect each person's definition of health. • Understand and respect each person's responses to illness.