NURS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Medicine Wheel, Alternative Medicine, Health Promotion
11 Dec 2017
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Their views on health circle around traditional holistic health practices and beliefs (medicine wheel: spiritual, physical, intellectual, and emotional). Traditional medicine and herbal medicine are acceptable alternatives to. It focuses on the relative position of one social group in relationship to others in society and on the root causes of disparities and what can be done to eliminate them. Discuss and apply the determinants of health (sdoh) to differing situations: health behaviors cannot be separated from where people live. Then, decisions are implemented in the physical realm (west), and actions produce reactions in the emotional realm (south). It forms an integral part both country"s health system, of which it is central function and focus, and of the overall social and economic development of the community. Define cultural safety and discuss how a nurse can practice utilizing cultural safety: cultural safety is defined as effective nursing practice with clients from another culture, as determined by those clients.
