Short response review questions

1. Describe how you would develop strategies to increase lifelong physical activity and exercise for yourself and how that would be similar or different from strategies to increase exercise for your patients.
2. Describe the benefits of massage and explain how massage could be used as a therapy in your practice.
3. Go to the website: http://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity . Research the recommendations on community strategies for increasing exercise and identify and describe three strategies that could be utilized in your community.
4. Identify relaxation therapies you think would be most likely to be effective for people based on their genetic information, cultural background, and lifestyle preferences. Include the important identifiers you would use to decide on the therapy use. Give an example of how you would decide and use the therapy with a patient.
5. Evaluate which populations can most benefit from practicing Tai Chi and are there conditions that would preclude its use. Describe the nature of change in the well-being status of older adults who practice Tai Chi.

1. You have been asked to consult with the architect who is designing a new hospital. Describe how you would explain the need for light to this architect and include the therapeutic value of this therapy for patients.
2. You are doing an admitting history and you ask your patient if they are taking any medications and they tell you only about their medication for their blood pressure. You later learn they are also taking an herbal supplement that could interfere with their medication. Describe the five teaching points for patients taking herbal medication and how would you better elicit a history about herbal medications and alternative therapies.
3. A patient tells you she has been doing aromatherapy at home and she thinks that it helps her with healing. Discuss the positive and possible negative consequences of allowing the patient to continue this therapy in the hospital. Consider if you would need a doctor’s order for this therapy.
4. Many cultural groups feel food is important for healing. Choose one cultural group and research their use of food with healing. Evaluate if any of the foods they suggest are functional foods or nutraceuticals.
5. Describe any herbal medications that you have taken in the past and whether they had an efficacy for your problem. Assess whether there are therapies that you grandmother may have suggested that are still used today and why these therapies are successful.

1. Describe the specifics of reflexology among other complementary therapies and how can the specifics of reflexology be captured in research
2. Analyze how acupressure strategies can be used in areas of nursing and describe how nurses could integrate acupressure in care including their use for palliative care, rehabilitation nursing, support of women in labor, and health promotion and disease prevention programs with at least one example in each area.
3. Evaluate the roles individual (high vs. low vitality) and environmental (northern vs. southern hemisphere) factors play on the effects of magnet therapy.
4. Analyze the relative effectiveness of noncontact Reiki (distance healing) and hands-on Reiki and how each can be used with patients. Describe whether a practitioner could use the internet for noncontact therapy.
5. Evaluate whether Healing Touch is equally effective in acute versus chronic pain and how long and how frequent do treatments need to be for the client to report a decrease in pain. Estimate how long does this improvement last.

1. Complementary and alternative medicine have become more mainstream for patients and families. Analyze how CAM therapies can be integrated into nursing practice and how you might help that happen in your clinical area.
2. It is important for students to have knowledge of all types of therapies a patient or family may use, including CAM. Describe how you would integrate instructions about CAM in a nursing program, including what courses would be most beneficial for this instruction.
3. Analyze two areas where further research into CAM would be beneficial. Describe why you chose these areas and what type of research you would use.

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