...Running head: REIKI AS A COMPLIMENTARY THERAPY 1 Reiki as a Complimentary Therapy Ruth Ann O'Ski State College of Florida Author Note This paper was prepared for Nursing Process I, taught by Professor McManigle and Professor Oakley-Hankins. Abstract Reiki is Japanese alternative healing therapy that originated in ancient Tibet (Anderson, 2001). Nurses use Reiki with patients in nursing interventions for relaxation, stress reduction, symptom relief, and in efforts to improve overall health and well-being. During a typical Reiki therapy session, the patient lies down or sits, fully clothed, then the practitioner's prone hands are placed lightly on or just above the patient's body, using a series of different hand positions. Scientific research is under way to learn more about Reiki’s therapeutic values. Keywords: Reiki, complimentary and alternative medicine, CAM Reiki as a Complimentary Therapy Reiki is a holistic Japanese alternative healing therapy that originated in ancient Tibet (Anderson, 2001). In the United States, as well as many other parts of the world Reiki is accepted as part of complimentary and alternative medicine (CAM). What makes Reiki unique is that it incorporates elements of many other alternative healing practices such as spiritual healing, auras, chakra balancing, meditation, aromatherapy, crystals, naturopathy, and homeopathy. Reiki practitioners place their hands lightly on or hover above the patient with the intent to transmit...
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...Medicine: A Shift in Medicare Policy to Benefit the Elderly Disabled Nursing Role in Leadership, Management, Current Issues, and Gerontology The United States Department of Health and Human Services identifies the disabled as individuals having difficulties in movement, deficiency in senses, impairments in emotional or cognitive functioning, which is usually in connection to some sort of health problem (Altman & Bernstein, 2008). Data from the National Health Interview Survey for 2001 to 2005 indicates that 61 percent of people aged 65 years and over have some form of disability (Altman & Bernstein, 2008). The main resource for the medical needs of almost all elderly disabled people is the Medicare program (Altman & Bernstein, 2008). The Medicare program provides them with access to primary healthcare providers, hospital care, nursing home care, hospice, home health, some medicines, and medically necessary services like durable medical equipment and supplies (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, n.d.). Unfortunately, according to the Medicare National Coverage Determinations Manual (2012) it does not reimburse Complementary and Alternative Medicine services. The author proposes that Complementary and Alternative Medicine should be included in Medicare’s coverage for elderly disabled people as part of an integrative approach to their care. The use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) offers the elderly disabled person an additional option in ways...
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...CAM Therapeutic Modalities Mark Apelo SCI/201 November 12, 2011 Jennifer Kuo CAM Therapeutic Modalities Sickness is a challenge that every person has to go through. Conventional management is doubted regularly, while we search for alternative treatments for our illness. Many of us are pursuing preventative measures to avoid getting sick and to live a healthy life style and go beyond treating diseases. In search for a better way of staying healthy many are looking for other possibilities such as alternative or complementary medical treatment (CAM) options. Conventional medicine also known as allopathic treatment is therapies provided by Medical professional such as doctors, nurses, and pharmacists. It usually involves both invasive such as surgery or noninvasive procedures. This is the most common and popular choice for medical care in the United States hence it is called Western Medicine (Dosey & Keegan, 2013). There are other way of treating diseases and illness that are being used by many people. These are the nonconventional medicine such as CAM. Complimentary and alternative medicine (CAM) are practices that falls under nonstandard medicine category; People with chronic disease use this form of treatment to alleviate pain, stress, anxiety and to feel more involve in their care. Although a further need of research to understand properly why patient turn to CAM for additional management of their chronic disease, however, researchers believed that culture and ethnicity...
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...different forms such as ointment gels, drops, creams and tablets. The word homeopathy comes from the Greek word; “homeos”, which means similar and “pathos”, meaning disease (Wyatt, Sikorskii & You, 2013, p. 34). Our rationale for choosing this topic is our desire to broaden our knowledge on the intricacies of homeopathy. It is a concept that eludes us as nursing students. As people who collectively have as final goal to provide health care to the population in general, it will be of interest to know what other forms of complementary medicines our clients are using. In addition, people who use homeopathic medicine do so while still actively seeking the services of medical practitioners or cannot afford conventional medicine or better still because it is a practice that has been handed to them from generation to generation. According to Zimmerman (2012), 30% of nurse-midwives in North Carolina recommended Statistical data suggest that homeopathy is a well-known complimentary alternative medicine (CAM) that has been exploited not only by the mainstream culture by minorities in the US in particular (p. 21). Although licensure for practice as homeopathy varies from state to state in the USA, there are many schools in the U.S that train homeopathy practitioners and the certification are available through different organization. Such organizations...
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...University of Phoenix Material Literature Search Worksheet Select a literature search topic relevant to your practice. The topic must be sufficiently delineated in scope without being trivial. You will revisit this article in the Week Five presentation. Possible topics include but are not limited to: o Non-pharmacological pain relief with childbirth o Effects of shift work and fatigue on medication errors o Best practices for pin site care o Nurse satisfaction in magnet hospitals o Accurate temperature assessment methods in neonates o Pain assessment in the cognitively impaired o Childhood type II diabetes and obesity o Complementary and alternative therapies for control of menopausal symptoms o Best practices in nurse-led smoking cessation classes o Thermoregulation in the operating room o Best practices for pain assessment and management in specified area of practice Complete the table below: |Which topic did you choose? | |I chose Non-pharmacological pain relief with childbirth. | |Which three databases will you use? | |1. EBSCOhost | |2. ProQuest...
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...treatment and caring, but throughout communication towards a selected client from the City of Horizon online Hospital. The selected client to focus on throughout this assignment is Tai Cam. In this assignment, therapeutic relationships will be discussed, assessing the guidelines and boundaries whilst being compared to the national competency standards which must be followed by nurses. A therapeutic relationship is a relationship between the nurse and the patient, however this relationship is on a personal but professional level. Nurses need to ensure they are not coming...
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...the hospital. With its presence being unknown to many nurses and providers, delirium has significant long term complications that can last well beyond discharge. Noise, medication, and infection are significant in the development and progression of delirium and these are more than abundant within intensive care patients. The importance of nurse’s knowledge cannot be stressed enough regarding the assessment, symptoms, and interventions of delirium, in an effort to decrease its occurrence and the implications thereafter. With the proper assessment and improved nursing interventions, data should display an increase in patient safety, decrease in prevalence, and reduce costs related to longer hospital stays. The state of being delirious occurs with a sudden decrease in a patient’s level of consciousness. It may be accompanied by inattention directly related to the care being given or by a change in cognition. (cite AACN practice alert) There are a variety of possible causes of delirium. These causes include: alcohol withdrawal, sepsis, pneumonia, electrolyte imbalances, liver failure, encephalitis, head trauma, meningitis, the use of many medications and abrupt withdrawal of medications. Most medical diagnosis and their possible complications can lead to some form of delirium. Delirium can manifest in two very different ways, hypoactive and hyperactive. Hypoactive delirium is characterized by a state of mental absence, confusion and inattention, very similar in nature to depression...
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...CAM Therapeutic Modalities In recent years many people have had increased reservations about conventional avenues of medical treatment and are perusing alternative treatments for what ails them. Numerous westerners are engaging in preventative health and wellbeing, outside the boundaries of traditional treatments. According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine over 38 percent of persons make use of complementary and alternative medicine or CAM technique (2012). This is due to the fact that people take pleasure in the aspect that they can focus on improving wellbeing with things other than drugs. This paper will highlight the differences between conventional medicine, complementary medicine, and alternative medicine, while outlining the CAM treatment for menopause and bring to light annotations from the scientific society about CAM therapies for menopause. Alternative, Integrative, and Complementary Medicine Alternative, complementary, and integrative medicines are associated with CAM and conventional medication treatment (NCCAM, 2012). Alternative medicine is defined as any remedy that does not fall in the standard dominion of conventional medicine. Many of these therapies and views come from ancient or cultural customs. Examples include traditional Chinese medicine, biofeedback, homeopathy, and Native American medicine. In numerous of these alternative approaches conventional medicine is not incorporated. Complementary medicine is a therapy or...
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...UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY FACULTY OF NURSING SPRING SESSION 2008 NURSING 607.57 ASSIGNMENT # 3 SCHOLARLY PAPER title: sound, spirituality and Healing for the family experiencing terminal cancer: a case study of the application of mantras Submitted by: Rosato, Mr. Giuseppe Date of Submission: July 18th, 2008 Submitted to: Dr. Carole-Lynne Le Navenec sound, spirituality and Healing for the family experiencing terminal cancer: a case study of the application of mantras ABSTRACT Given the growing interest in North America for CAM, complementary and/or alternative medicine (diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine) and holistic healthcare, health care professionals within the regulation imposed by their professional organization, have the ability to expand the realm of conventional medicine (medicine as practiced by holders of M.D. [medical doctor] or D.O. [doctor of osteopathy] degrees and by their allied health professionals, such as physical therapists, psychologists, and registered nurses) to a holistic healthcare system by integrating CAM modalities such as acupressure, guided imagery, humor, massage, meditation, therapeutic touch/healing touch, prayer and arts in general into their profession. This paper explores a CAM and holistic treatment/healing modality, Mantra Therapy, that conforms to three types of CAM as defined by the United States government...
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...procedure is required. A4: Patient understands the process of preoperative procedures. Correct answer is 1. Because answers 2 and 3 may not mean that patient agrees with the treatment, speaker, or understands the procedure. Option 4 falsely interprets patient’s behavior. Q2. What is the best thing to do when the nurse is talking to a patient of different language? A1: Talk slow and loud. A2: Get an interpreter. A3: Talk to the patient and family at once. A4: Talk loud while being close to the patient. Correct answer is 2. Answer 3 violates patient’s privacy rights, answers 1 and 4 are wrong because talking loud wouldn’t be therapeutic to the patient, but the opposite. Q3. The nurse educator is educating staff transcultural nursing, when a staff member asks to explain acculturation. What is the most appropriate response? A1: It is learning new culture and adapting to change. A2: It is importance of person’s heritage and a desire to belong. A3: It is a group of people that are culturally unique. A4: It is a group that shares characteristics of the population that it is a part of. Correct answer is 1 because the definition of acculturation means learning new culture and adapting a change. Answer 2 describes ethnic identity, answer 3 describes ethnic group, answer 4 describes a subculture. Q4. While nurse is providing discharge instructions to a Chinese American patient, the patient keeps turning away. What is the best way to handle this? A1: Keep explaining...
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...Alternative therapies for cancer treatment HCS/436 April 29, 2014 Maria Libano Alternative Therapies for Cancer Treatment Treatment for terminal illness nowadays in most advance nation, in the domain of medicine, is not limited to single absolute regimen or perhaps, couple of so called convectional fashion of tackling a terminal disease such as any for cancer. There have been some successful testimonies from patient who adopted alternative means to treat cancer or complimentary methods to tackle the cancer. To illustrate this, Tamara St. John in her “Defeat Cancer Now” depicts how she conquered cancer by adopting alternative measures because she despised all the side effects from chemotherapy and radiation therapy way of treating breast cancer. It was a success. Currently and beside complimentary or supplementary regimen to treat cancer, different options are available for alternative therapies for cancer treatment including acupuncture, spiritual aspect as in prayer, meditation, support group, just to name a few. Most people agreed upon that “ there is no harm in trying” which implies that if a person is going through difficulties especially an illness such as cancer, they will try different option that are available to them, in order to cope. Alternative therapies and treatment can also be utilized to maintain and sustain life. “The uses of complementary and alternative therapies continue to increase within the population” (Henderson & Donatelle, 2004...
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...Personal and Professional Health Care Communication Paper HCS/350 Health Care Communication University of Phoenix Personal & Professional Healthcare Communication Paper Professional and effective communication is a vital ingredient to safe and high quality nursing practice. Proper communication with other co-workers, physicians, ancillary staff, patients, and their families is a required skill necessary for all practicing, professional healthcare professionals. Communicating with others has become second nature to us, but are we communicating properly with one another on a day to day basis? The purpose of this paper is to define healthcare communication, identify the relevancy of effective personal healthcare communication with other healthcare professionals, clients/patients; to identify the relevancy of effective professional healthcare communication to health outcomes, to discuss how the lack of effective personal and professional healthcare communication contributes to poor health outcomes; and to discuss theories and principles of therapeutic communication in healthcare settings for healthcare professionals. According to Northouse and Northouse (1998), “communication is the process of sharing information using a set of common rules.” As we all know, communicating with others in the healthcare settings is a complex and multifaceted process that relies on clear and concise delivery of messages, undivided attention from all parties, and full understanding from all...
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...study revealed that after the program there is a significant improvement as reported by the nurses. They learned the importance of effective communication within work and develop own strategies to problem solving. Similarly, Cam & Buyukbayram, 2015 found out that resilience workshops focus on skill enhancement for professional growth of healthcare workers especially among nurses. The program uses evidenced based practice to provide psycho-education...
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...of symptoms such as daytime sleepiness or fatigue, Sudden awakenings with a sensation of gasping or choking, Restlessness during sleep, arrhythmias and are at risk of developing ischemic heart disease and other vascular related problems (Hsu et al., 2007). Several treatment options have been identified for individuals with OSA including continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), weight loss to reduce pressure on the diaphragm, dental appliances, and surgical procedures. This study assessed patients who have undergone the uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP) procedure to determine if their upper airways have improved after the procedure. To make this determination, researchers used quantitative video endoscopic computer-assisted measurement (CAM) to show improvement in the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI). The researchers who conducted this study indicated that its design is prospective. Patients who participated in this research study had the UPPP procedure performed and 6 months later they underwent the computer-assisted measurement in order for the researcher to determine whether there had been any improvement in the apnea-hypopnea index (Hsu et al., 2007). It is assumed that consent was obtained from the participant of this study prior to the surgical procedure being performed. However, it is...
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...SULFONAMIDES Abstract Sulfonamides are among one of the oldest drugs to be used as antibiotics. They were invented in 1930's. Nowadays doctors prefer to prescribe them as the traditional drug of choice for urinary tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases. Currently, the new development of antibiotics to combat illnesses caused by bacterial resistant strains and have limited the usefulness of Sulfa medications. Objectives Upon successful completion of this presentation you should be able to: • Understand and communicate your knowledge of Sulfonamides mode of action and bacterial resistance • Identify and understand the contra indications, common signs and symptoms of allergic reactions to Sulfonamides. • Identify 3 common trade names for sulfonamides and select indication for use between different patient population. Type and class of Pathogen Sulfonamides have been in use since the 1930's , these drugs are effective against both gram- negative and gram - positive bacteria. Sulfonamides are know as broad spectrum antimicrobial drugs; they are effective against a wide variety of microorganisms most Enterobacteriaceae, Chlamydia trachomatis, Nisseria, Haemophilus influenzae,, Norcardia, E.Coli , P. mirabilis some staphylococci, and many streptococci (with exception of Enterococcus faecalis). They are used for...
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