Complimentary and Alternative Therapies – Flashcards
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A patient describes practicing a complimentary and alternative therapy involving breathwork and yoga. The nurse also recommends using energy field therapies. Which techniques did the nurse suggest?
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Reiki therapy and therapeutic touch
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A teen with an anxiety disorder is referred for biofeedback because the parents do not want their child to take anxiolytics. Which statement from the teen indicates successful learning?
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"Biofeedback will help me with my thoughts and physiological responses to stress."
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An older adult patient is newly admitted to a skilled nursing facility with the dx of Alzheimer's dementia, lipidemia, and HTN, and a hx of pulmonary embolism. Medications brought upon admission include lisinopril, hydrochlorothiazide, warfarin, low-dose aspirin, ginkgo biloba, and Echinacea. Which potential interaction will cause the nurse to notify the patient's health care provider?
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Warfarin and ginkgo biloba
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A patient asks the nurse for a nonmedical approach for excessive worry and work stress. Which therapy should the nurse recommend?
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Meditation
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A nurse is teaching about therapy that is more effective in treating physical ailments than in preventing disease or managing chronic illness. Which therapy is the nurse describing?
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Allopathic
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During a relaxation therapy skills group, the instructor discusses the cognitive skill of learning to tolerate uncertain and unfamiliar experiences. Which skill is the instructor describing?
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Receptivity
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A patient tasks about the new clinic in town that is staffed by allopathic and complimentary practitioners. Which response from the nurse is best?
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It is probably and integrative medical clinic
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The group leader is overheard saying to the gathering of patients, "focus on your breathing once again... Notice how it is irregular... Now focus on your left arm... Notice how relaxed your left arm feels... Notice that relaxation going down the arm to the hand." A patient asks the nurse what the group is doing. What is the nurse's best response?
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It is progressive relaxation training
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A therapeutic touch practitioner scans the patient's body. What is the purpose of the practitioner's action?
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To identify energy obstructions
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A nurse is teachin a patient about meridians. Which technique is the nurse preparing the patient to receive?
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Acupuncture
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A Native American patient is asking for a spiritual healer. Which person should the nurse try to contact for the patient?
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Shaman
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A nurse is using the holistic approach to care. Which goal is the priority?
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Incorporate the mind-body-spirit connection
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A nurse is using caring-healing relationships to support whole person/systems healing. Which type of nursing is the nurse using?
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Integrative nursing
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A nurse is teaching a patient relaxation techniques to decreases stress. Which finding will support the nurse's evaluation that the therapy is effective?
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Decreased heart rate
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A nurse is providing different types of therapies to a patient with excessive fatigue and cancer. Which technique will cause the nurse manager to intervene?
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Active progressive relaxation
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A nurse is emphasizing the use of touch to decrease "skin hunger" in caring for patients. Which age group is the nurse primarily describing?
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Older adults
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A patient is proficient at meditation from long-time use of the technique. Which finding in the medication hx will cause the nurse to follow up?
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A takes thyroid regulating medication
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A patient is taking an antidepressant medication. The nurse discovers that the patient uses herbs. Which herb will cause the nurse to intervene?
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Chamomile
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A nurse is teaching a patient about the use of biofeedback. Which goal should the nurse add to the care plan?
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Controls autonomic physiological functions
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Which patient will cause the nurse to question an order for acupuncture?
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A patient with AIDS
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A nurse is describing the therapeutic effects of imagery. Which information should the nurse include in the teaching session?
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Controls pain, Decreases nightmares, Helps with IBS
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A nurse is teaching a class over herbs and their uses. Which condition will the nurse match to its specific herb for the teaching lesson?
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Aloe and skin inflammation Garlic and elevated cholesterol levels Valerian and mild anxiety Ginger and N/V Saw palmetto and BPH
