Exam 20: Complementary and Alternative Therapies

The nurse is obtaining health history information on a new patient at a health care provider's office and he or she records a barbiturate medication on the current list.What herb should the nurse ask if the patient is taking?

The nurse reassures a patient that ____of all adults in the United States take some form of CAM therapy each year.

A patient admitted with lower back pain is not sure that the prescribed treatment is helping and asks what alternative therapies might help.What should the nurse suggest?

What is the goal of herbal therapy?

People with fractures,rheumatoid arthritis,and osteoporosis are not candidates for ____________ therapy.

___________________is a noninvasive method an individual can employ to learn control of the body to manage certain conditions.Monitoring equipment is used to measure vital signs and muscle tension.The messages are sent back to the individual.

Confusion and misinformation relative to herbal medicine can make patients reluctant to disclose their herbal use to health care providers.What should be the nurse's approach?

The nurse is educating a patient with phlebitis of the left leg.What alternative therapy should this patient avoid until the condition is resolved?

What is a therapeutic treatment that joins the mind and body and increases muscle tone and flexibility?

An older adult patient tells the home health nurse,"My health care provider hasn't helped my arthritis at all.I am using the chiropractor now." What change has the patient made?