Running a Safe and Successful Acup Clinic

This excellent new book is an essential guide to Running a Safe and Successful Acupuncture Clinic. Its three sections, covering safety and risk management, ethics and interpersonal skills, and professional development and clinic management, provide vital information to any acupuncturist, whether a new practitioner or one already in practice with several years' experience. Standing as an easy-to-use reference as well as a comprehensive textbook, this is an essential read for anyone studying, researching or practising acupuncture.

Features

- an excellent valuable addition for everyone associated with acupuncture and traditional chinese medicine
- offers everything you need to know in an acupuncture clinic
- chapters cover essential areas such as safety, risk, ethics and interpersonal skills and clinic management
- written by a leading practitioner in the field with a considerable understanding of the particular needs and unique aspects of running an acupuncture clinic
- aimed to be accessible to both the new and experienced practitoners

Techniques and Safety. Refining diagnostic skills and needling technique. Accident prevention and management. Reducing risk in other acupuncture techniques. Ethics and Interpersonal Skills. Ethical issues in acupuncture practice. Learning interpersonal skills with patients. Treatment planning and programs. Clinical Management and Continuing Education. New practitioners. Effective advertising for acupuncturists. Record-keeping. Developing your practice. Building and maintaining a network of health practitioners. The practical use of herbs.