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Therapeutic practices that are not currently considered an integral part of conventional medical practice
Used in addition to conventional treatments. |
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| Therapies that are used instead of conventional treatment |
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Relaxation Techniques
Biofeedback
Imagery
Yoga
Mediation
Prayer
Music Therapy
Humor
Hypnosis |
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Touch Therapies
Mind Body Therapies
Transpersonal Therapies |
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Therapeutic Massage
Acupressure
Reflexology
Chiropractic
Reiki |
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Intercessory Prayer
Non contact Therapeutic touch |
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| Research Findings about Holism |
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Increases relaxation
Decreases stress
decreases diastolic blood pressure
decreases pain
enhances would healing |
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| Internal Locus of Control |
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| Belief that a person's own actions determine the rewards that they obtain |
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| External Locus of Control |
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| Belief that a person's behavior doesn't matter much and rewards in life are generally outside their control. |
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| Role of perception in stress |
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| Not what happens to us per se, but how we interpret it |
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| Interventions to prevent stress overload/burnout |
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Balance
Moderation
Regularity
Rest
Activity |
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| Stressors that occur within the individual |
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| Stressors that occur between individuals |
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| Stressors that occur outside of the person |
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| Stressors are ________ in nature. |
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| Impact of Stressors depends on |
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1. The personality and behavior patterns of the individual
2.The nature of the stressors
Frequency
Intensity
Duration
3. Our perception of the stressor |
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| A state resulting from reaction of the system to stressors that my alter system stability. |
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| Anything(actual or potential)that is perceived as a threat to the system. |
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| Local Adaptation Syndrome(LAS) |
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Body reacts locally rather than globally.
One organ or a part of the body reacts alone? (Example, Inflammation)
Is an adaptive response, I.E.. Requires stress for response
Same stages as GAS: Alarm, Resistance, and Exhaustion |
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| General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) |
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Whole body involved in the response to stressor
Involves primarily the autonomic nervous system and the endocrine system, but involves every system
a change in one part of the whole affects all other parts as well |
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| Alarm Reaction(1st stage) |
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Results in mobilization
Can last for minutes to hours
fight, flight, faint, or freeze reaction
Pupils dilate, hormone levels rise, increasing blood volume, glucose, epinephrine & norepinephrine, heart rate, blood flow to muscles, oxygen intake and mental alertness.
If stressor is extreme or lasts a long time, the person progresses to next stage. |
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| Resistance Stage(2nd Stage) |
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Adaptation
Stabilization
The body stabilizes and responds the opposite of the Alarm Reaction, returning to normal and repairing any damage |
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| Exhaustion Stage(3rd stage) |
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No more energy
leads to rest or death
increased stress=death
When the body is no longer able to resist the effects of the stressor and is depleted of the energy required to maintain adaptation. |
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Stress is the non-specific response of the body and any demand made upon it.
Triggers a specific syndrome
Syndrome(stress response)
characterized by a chain or pattern of physiological events known as General Adaptation Syndrome |
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| Seven Basic Living Habits Crucial to Health |
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No smoking
Moderate drinking
Regular meals with no snacks
Breakfast everyday
normal weight
regular exercise |
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| 1. Basic Principles in Holistic Health |
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| 1. Rest on the foundation of the integration of the mind, body, and spirit. |
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| 2. (Goal) Basic Principles in Holistic Health |
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| Establishing positive wellness rather than defining health as simply the absence of disease |
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| 3. Basic Principles in Holistic Health |
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| Everyday living habits are the basics of health |
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| 4. Basic Principles in Holistic Health |
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| Individual responsible for his/her own level of well-being |
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| 5. Basic Principles in Holistic Health |
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| Illness provides an opportunity for growth |
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| 6. Basic Principles in Holistic Health |
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| Environmental factors (Food, sanitation, housing, etc.) and emotional factors play a role in an individual's health |
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| 7. Basic Principles in Holistic Health |
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| All modalities of healing deserve careful scientific explanation and should be used where appropriate |
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| No single factor can be said to cause health or illness |
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| A belief in the presence of an intelligent life force that is self correcting (consciousness, prana, chi etc.) |
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| Symptoms are the soul's way of expressing itself, or showing what is needed, what is happening |
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| Illness a result of a disturbance in the vital force |
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| Systems are evidence that the life force is attempting to restore balance, to cure itself, to self correct |
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| Doctors and Nurse's role is to support the natural healing power of natural |
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| diagnosis and treatment honors the patient's experience and intelligence |
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| Includes profound respect for the self-healing capacities in the individual |
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| Provider of care is a listener, an observer, and a facilitator of nature's healing action |
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| people cannot be separated from the environment of which they are a part |
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| health viewed as the balanced integration of all the factors that surround and make up the individual person |
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| Reality is made up of organic, unified wholes that are greater that the sum of their parts |
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| Rejects attempts to dissect something into smaller parts |
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| Focus on the whole person composed of a physical body and a non physical mind and spirit that are interconnected and impossible to separate |
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| Doctors are highly skilled master mechanics who are needed because the body has limited ability to self correct and needs outside intervention |
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Treatment involves:
removing or repairing the broken part
neutralizing foreign invaders
replacing missing chemicals |
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Body viewed as a collection of parts
Illness as a breakdown of those parts |
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All natural phenomena are explainable by material causes and mechanical principals
Direct cause and effect
Relationships are predictable
Focus on measurement, quantification, analysis, and control |
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| Holistic definition of health |
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A positive state of wellness
not just the absence of disease or symptoms |
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| Medical model definition of health |
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| the absence of symptoms/disease |
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| (WHO)World Health Organization Definition of health |
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| A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease |
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The use of self
directed by intention
with presence
purpose or participating in another person's healing journey
a sacred trust |
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That moral state in which the holistic nurse brings her or his whole self into the relationship to the whole of another person.
Reinforcing this presence, this connectedness in the moment
the relative health and well-being of the nurse constitutes a vital force in the healing process |
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will you participate in your client's healing experience
or will you take energy from your client
and in the process, interfere with their natural healing abilites |
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| Consideration of the entire person, not merely the body or mind |
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| views the person as a unified integrated biopsychosocial and spiritual being |
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| In constant interaction with the environment from conception to death |
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Everything occurs in patterns
Organizations
Relationships
Interactions
Process
All parts combine to form a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts |
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Are integrally related
A change in one dimension affects all the other dimensions |
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