Exam 3: Complementary and Alternative Therapies

The nurse is planning a community education program on the role of complementary and alternative therapies during pregnancy. Which statement should the nurse include? "Alternative and complementary therapies:

The charge nurse is providing an in-service for the nurses on the obstetrical unit about complementary and alternative medicine as it relates to conventional medicine. Which statement from a nurse indicates an understanding of the topic?

The nurse is assessing a patient who reports seeing an acupuncturist on a weekly basis to treat back pain. The nurse understands that acupuncture is an example of:

In caring for pregnant patients, the nurse realizes that information on conventional, complementary, and alternative medicine is:

A pregnant patient tells the nurse that she takes part in complementary and alternative therapies to maintain wellness. Which situation that she describes would the nurse consider a risk?

In taking a patient's history, the nurse can best obtain information about the use of complementary and alternative therapies by:

The nurse in a rural clinic is talking with some patients about biofeedback. The nurse explains to the patients that biofeedback:

The patient asks why she should not use a sauna or sweat bath in the first trimester of pregnancy. The best explanation by the nurse is that saunas and sweat baths have been associated with fetal:

The patient reports relief from headaches when she rubs the temples on each side of the head. The nurse understands that this is a form of:

The pregnant patient has brought an herbal remedy to the clinic to learn about the safety of the remedy. The nurse should include which statements about herbal therapies? "Herbal remedies:

A nursing instructor is teaching a group of student nurses about the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). Which statement, if made by a nursing student, would indicate the need for further teaching?

A woman has just been referred to a chiropractor for lower back pain by her primary physician. The physician's nurse knows that which consideration is important in choosing an appropriate chiropractor?

The nurse is counseling a pregnant woman who intends to see a naturopathic physician. The nurse tells the woman that she can expect education on:

The patient who is in her third trimester of pregnancy asks the nurse whether hydrotherapy might help her. The nurse explains that hydrotherapy makes use of:

A patient pregnant with her first child reports that her husband wants her to visit a homeopath for help with her nausea and vomiting. The patient asks what the nurse's opinion of homeopathy is. The best response by the nurse is:

The patient in the third trimester tells the nurse that she has designed the baby's room to take advantage of sense therapies. The nurse knows that complementary and alternative therapies affecting the senses include:

The nurse counseling a pregnant woman who expresses a desire to take herbal supplements explains that complementary therapies carry risks because of:

The labor and delivery unit nurse manager is incorporating complementary and alternative therapies into the unit's policies and procedures. Which statement should the nurse manager make to the nursing staff during an in-service educational presentation?

The nurse counseling a newly graduated nurse just starting employment on the maternity floor explains that certified nurse-midwives frequently incorporate complementary and alternative therapies into treatment for:

A patient in her second trimester of pregnancy tells the nurse she is still suffering from nausea on a daily basis. However, since she began wearing the wristband each day, the nausea is subsiding. What is the most likely reason for this relief in nausea?