Holistic Nursing: Evidence, Patient Preferences and Safe Integration

Course Purpose

4 contact hours nursing continuing education course: Holistic Nursing: Evidence, Patient Preferences and Safe Integration.

Continuing Education Credit Designation

This educational activity is credited for 4 contact hours at completion of the activity.

Overview

4 contact hours nursing continuing education course: Holistic Nursing: Evidence, Patient Preferences and Safe Integration.

Objectives

Upon completion of this independent study, the learner will be able to:

1. Distinguish complementary, alternative and integrative health using current federal definitions, and explain why the distinction changes the nursing response.
2. Describe how commonly complementary approaches are used by adults and children in the United States, and which approaches are used most.
3. Take a complete complementary-use history, including supplements, that a patient is willing to answer honestly.
4. Interpret statements such as may help or evidence is limited without either overselling or dismissing an approach.
5. Explain what nonspecific effects are and why sham-controlled comparisons matter when reading acupuncture research.
6. Describe meditation and mindfulness practices, their reported benefits and the current limits of safety data.
7. Identify conditions and situations that call for modification or supervision of yoga and other movement practices.
8. State the known and the rare risks of massage therapy and of improperly delivered acupuncture.
9. Explain how dietary and herbal supplements are regulated and why label contents cannot be assumed accurate.
10. Screen for supplement-related risk before surgery, during cancer treatment, in pregnancy and in children.
11. Document complementary use and communicate it to the team so that interactions are visible to prescribers.
12. Respond to a patient who wishes to replace conventional treatment with an alternative approach without ending the relationship.

Who this course is for:

Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, registered nurses, licensed practical or vocational nurses, and other healthcare providers in any setting who want continuing education on Holistic Nursing: Evidence, Patient Preferences and Safe Integration.

Course outline

12 sections · finish in any order across devices

1. 1

   Course overview and learning objectives

2. 2

   Introduction

3. 3

   What holistic and integrative practice actually mean

4. 4

   Taking a complementary-use history the patient will answer honestly

5. 5

   Reading the evidence honestly: what may help really means

6. 6

   Meditation and mindfulness: what is known and what is not

7. 7

   Yoga and meditative movement: benefits, injuries and modification

8. 8

   Manual and needle-based therapies: massage and acupuncture

9. 9

   Dietary and herbal supplements: regulation, labels and interaction risk

10. 10

    Integrating complementary use into the plan of care

11. 11

    Nursing Considerations

12. 12

    Conclusion

This Course Satisfies

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