Exam 17: Complementary and Alternative Therapies

___________________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.

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Question 21

What will placing an herb in alcohol or vinegar make?

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Question 22

What is the importance of the nurse asking about the patient's use of alternative therapies when obtaining a health history?

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Question 23

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

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Question 24

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?

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Question 25

What should the nurse instruct a patient who takes tincture of rosemary to do several times a day?

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Question 26

The nurse describes a therapy that can produce a state of decreased cognitive, physiological, and/or behavioral arousal. To what alternative therapy is the nurse referring?

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Question 27

Herbal remedies vary from pharmaceutical remedies in what way(s)? (Select all that apply.)

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Question 28

Which term describes using the conscious mind to create situations that evoke physical changes in the body?

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Question 29

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?

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Exam 17: Complementary and Alternative Therapies

___________________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.

What will placing an herb in alcohol or vinegar make?

What is the importance of the nurse asking about the patient's use of alternative therapies when obtaining a health history?

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

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?

What should the nurse instruct a patient who takes tincture of rosemary to do several times a day?

The nurse describes a therapy that can produce a state of decreased cognitive, physiological, and/or behavioral arousal. To what alternative therapy is the nurse referring?

Herbal remedies vary from pharmaceutical remedies in what way(s)? (Select all that apply.)

Which term describes using the conscious mind to create situations that evoke physical changes in the body?

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?

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