Practical Nursing PNH100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Alternative Medicine, Naturopathy, Nursing Diagnosis
4 Apr 2016
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Health the extent to which an individual or group is able to realize aspiraions and saisfy needs, and change or cope with their environment. It is a resource for everyday life not the objecive of living that is ever changing. Wellness the state of opimum health and funcioning and is a subjecive experience. Disease objecive state of ill health and an alteraion in body funcions resuling in a reducion of capaciies or a shortening of the normal lifespan. Illness subjecive experience of loss of health. Complementary therapies used in addiion to convenional treatment. Alternaive therapies the primary treatment that replace allopathic medical care. Whole medical systems (naturopathic medicine, tradiional chinese medicine) Mind-body intervenions (aromatherapy, breath work, dance therapy) Biologically based therapies (herbal medicines, vitamins, special diets) Manipulaive and body based therapies (acupressure, tai chi, chiropracic) Stress the state of physiological tension that afects the whole person physically, emoionally, intellectually, socially and spiritually.
