NUR 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Therapeutic Touch, Acupressure, Reflexology
Document Summary
Health is more than the absence of disease; health is optimal wellness in all aspects of one"s being. Holism is the understanding that people are not just physical bodies; people have emotional, spiritual and relationship aspects involved with well-being that combines with the physical body to make a whole person. Allopathic focuses on identifying disease and conditions by a physician or other midlevel provider, and using drugs and surgery to treat bacteria and other ailments. Nursing practice that heals the whole person. It is a specialty practice that draws on nursing knowledge, theories, expertise and intuition to guide nurses in becoming therapeutic partners with people in their care. People are animate beings with energy, life force present in all elements of universe. Human energy can be manipulated by an energy practitioner. People are affected by energy of environment (anxiety) Energy work releases blockages to energy flow, rebalances life energy. Western civilizations: subtle energy, life energy, or universal energy.
