Complementary & Alternative Therapies for Nursing Practice

by Karen Lee Fontaine

Providing a comprehensive overview of alternative health practices and complementary therapies from a nursing perspective, this enlightening and informative resource covers the principles, techniques, research, health promotion methods and healing practices for specific illnesses and symptoms. This newly updated third edition incorporates the latest research findings, expanded resource sections, additional photographs, and thoroughly updated material. This is a perfect resource for nurses and practitioners in allied health fields who seek to expand their practice to offer wider choices to consumers of health care.

465 pages, Paperback

First published July 16, 2004

About the author

Karen Lee Fontaine, RN MSN

Reviews

[Reba · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sooner or later everyone will be concerned with proper pain management and the quality of their life and health, as well as that of their loved ones. Hypnotherapy has been found to reduce multiple discomforts that patients often experience such as asthma, anxiety, depression, and labor pains. However, the patient should ensure that their physician is properly versed in hypnotherapy and, therefore, will be able to give the specific application and level of care that the patient requires.

Karen Lee Fontaine, a professor of nursing at Purdue University, explains that, “Imagery stimulates changes in several functions of the body such as heart rate blood pressure, respiratory patterns, brain wave rhythms and patterns, electrical characteristics of the skin, local blood flow and temperature, gastrointestinal motility, secretions hormone level, and neurotransmitters.” (Fontaine)

This book is right for people that are searching for more effective pain management and treatment than what is currently being offered. Fontaine explains many ancient effective pain relief therapies as well as some newer such as hypnotherapy.

[Heather Rosen · Rating 5 out of 5]

So far it's good.