Preventive education is an important part of the interaction that NYM has with the community. Nursing image throughout the hospital is respected the only problem is the nursing image among nurses themselves. The shortage also comes into play here. Nurses become burned out and frustrated and tend to be negative with each other due to the stress. Interdisciplinary relationships throughout the hospital are strong.
Holistic healing means taking a "wholistic" approach to balance any imbalances in a “whole” person, i.e. body and mind, the physical and the mental. Holistic healing views the person as the sum of the parts instead of parts, which most medical doctors are guilty of practicing. Examples of holistic medicine are meditation, massage, aromatherapy, and reflexology (Vettese, Toneatto, Stea, Nguyen, & Wang, 2009; The Transcendental Meditation Program, 2012). The purpose of this paper will examine Transcendental Meditation (TM) as a method to improve the quality of health with a person’s with medical issues in the emergency room (ER).
1. Describe at least two fundamental differences between the practice of Curanderismo and conventional western biomedicine (the predominant medical model in the United States). Include a reference from the book that supports your position. While reading “Woman Who Glows In The Dark” I have learned the meaning and belief of curanderismo, as well as the meaning of conventional western biomedicine. Curanderismo “is an earthy, natural, grounded health-care system that seeks to keep all of the elements of our being in balance”.
The differences between the biomedical and social model of health is that biomedical focuses on the cure for treating and diagnosing treatment for ill patients while the social model focuses on the origins of the illness rather than the cure. (Denny and Earle 2010) The social model’s aim is to change environmental factors to allow healthier choices focusing on the psychological and social factors such as age, gender, ethnicity, religion, social class and disability. (Kirby et.al 2000) The biomedical model of medicine has been around for centuries as the dominant model used by health professionals to diagnosis disease. The model concentrates on the physical processes of disease and does not take into account psychological or social factors in the cause or treatment of the illness. (Giddens 1989) This model of health looks at individual physical functioning and describes disease and illness as a result of physical causes such as injury or infections.
The Bio-medical model has several assumptions that are accurate; it defines health as a biological normality it also believes that illnesses and disease are caused by an identifiable factor such as a faulty gene or virus. The model believes that illness is a temporary condition producing a physical symptom and that it should be identified and classified by a medical official not a non-expert. It is common for the experts that follow the bio-medical model to focus solely on diagnosing the symptoms of their patient leaving no room for dispute between the doctor and the patient. Illness and disease has cures and treatments usually from removing the cause, medicine is seen as the way to solve health problems, and the health of society is seen as dependant on the state of medical knowledge and the availability of medical resources. The main strengths of the bio-medical model is that it stresses the importance of trying to find the cause of illness and disease; there is a wealth of evidence that support the bio-medical approach, including successful operations, cancer screenings and immunisation programmes.
Some may argue that alternative medicine is better than western medicine because it deals with using natural remedies. Some may also argue that western medicine is the best way to go since it remedies relies on scientific research. Here are some examples of alternative medicine acupuncture message therapy and naturopathic medicine. (Alex Genadinik) This paper discusses the historical background of alternative medicine and western medicine, or an analysis of both medicines and the cost associated with both medicines. Alternative medicine has been around for centuries it goes back further than western medicine.
Evidence-Based Practice Intro to Professional Nursing 3010 April 11, 2015 Evidence-Based Practice As nursing developed as a profession, it gained a scientific basis that has developed theories and performed research specific to nursing and has defined the way that patients are treated. Nurses no longer utilize trial-and-error to treat patients, but use methods of treatment that are firmly based in knowledge gained through research (Black, 2014). “Evidence-based practice is a problem-solving approach to clinical decision-making within a healthcare organization that integrates the best available scientific evidence with the best available experiential evidence” (Hain & Kear, 2015). In the past, patients were treated using
Chinese massage originated from the principle that disease and illnesses arise due to imbalance energy and specific pathways or meridians that present. Through massage techniques, the body has a chance to heal its self naturally (Natural Healers 2002). Over the years massage has not so much changed but developed. Starting out thousands of years ago masseurs used to kneed the muscles, throughout history more research had been done and through that research they have developed different styles of massaging, and have discovered the reason to why massaging can help with injuries. Traditional Chinese medicine is much similar to that of massage, but over time there has been more research done and more development to improve different treatments.
Many in our care have also got weakened immune systems and as a consequence are more susceptible to infection from the outset. We want to give the patients in our care the best treatment and quality of care possible and this would not be possible without infection control. Were we to neglect patient control their quality of life and indeed health would deteriorate, they would get sick and suffer and in extreme cases would die. This runs totally contrary to the attitudes, duties and commitments we hold so dear as healthcare workers. In this assignment I will introduce, explain and discuss one of the most topical worldwide infections in the workplace – mainly hospitals and other places of healthcare environment; MRSA.
Homeopathy Treatment Remedies and Alternatives The goal of homeopathy treatment is to stimulate the body's ability to heal itself by giving very small doses of highly diluted substances that in larger doses would produce illness or symptoms, an approach referred to as "like cures like". This therapeutic method was developed by German physician Samuel Christian Hahnemann at the end of the 18th century, and has been adopted world wide as an alternative way in which to heal many disorders. Classical homeopathy remedies are guided by two principles; one is the principle of similars in which it is believed like cures like and an illness can be healed by a substance that produces similar symptoms in people that are healthy. The second principle which is the law of minimum dose or principle of dilutions, states that the lower the dose of the medication, the more effective it will be. In most classical homeopathy remedies they are so diluted that molecules of the healing substance are no longer present.