NURS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: List Of Forms Of Alternative Medicine, Tai Chi, Comorbidity
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Refers to the western health care system and pracices derived from biomedical knowledge present in developed countries (canada, usa, european union). Biomedicine represents the convenional medicine in western countries like canada and the usa. Dominant health care system and/or pracices in western countries. Complementary medicine: is used together with convenional or western biomedicine (yiu, p. 306 in fundamentals of canadian nursing, 2014). Alternaive medicine: is used in place of convenional medicine (yiu, p. 306, 2014). Is used in place of convenional (western) medicine (johnson, 2013, p. 208). Alternaive medicine can be prescribed by a western physician or a western nurse. Example: a special diet to facilitate alimentaion of paients receiving radiotherapy for laryngeal cancer represents an example of an alternaive therapy. Complementary medicine is used together with western medicine or may be used alone (johnson, Example: a paient/client treated for a colon cancer will also use aromatherapy. Example: a post-menopausal woman will use aromatherapy in addiion of oestrogen supplements.
