The Nurse's Handbook of Complementary Therapies

This is a comprehensive guide to complementary therapies written specifically for nurses and midwives. The book covers the general issues involved in dealing with complementary therapies - change, policy, models, supervision - and examines the broad concepts which underpin many of the therapeutic approaches - energy, healing, environments. The bulk of the book consists of short summaries of a number of therapies, examining specifically the research underpinnings, the therapeutic potential related to nursing and midwifery, and contraindications.

Features

Specific to nursing and midwifery - many books deal generally with the therapies, but no other looks so clearly at what nurses need to know, what they can practice for themselves, and what they need to know in referring or giving advice.
Clear and accessible. Written and edited to give concise information and uses many summary boxes, easy to access on the spot.
Safe! Contraindications are given and the reader's confidence bolstered in approaching unfamiliar therapies.
Written by experienced and well-known practitioners and authors for maximum authority.
Up-to-date. Research in the therapies grows and nurses and midwives need to be fully are for what is known. This will be the most up-to-date guide available.

What's New

17 new chapters
Thoroughly updated and revised throughout
8 new contributors

Introduction (Denise Rankin-Box)
Part 1 - Introducing complementary therapies into the workplace
Choosing a therapy (Claire Byrne). Managing change in the workplace (Denise Rankin-Box). Policy development (Denise Rankin-Box and Maxine McVey). Clinical supervision (Peter Mackereth) Research issues (Caroline Stevensen). . Ethico-legal issues (Julia Stone). Integration models: implications for nursing practice (Angela Avis / Steve Ersser). Complementary therapies in nursing models (Fiona Mantle).
Part 2 - Approaches to healing
Sacred space (Jean Sayre-Adams, Steve Wright). Shamanism (Mike Money). Developing health care environments (Fran Biley). Geopathic stress ( Dawn Freshwater). Spiritual healing research (Daniel Benor).
Part 3 - Therapies
Acupuncture (Stephanie Downey). Aromatherapy (Caroline Stevensen). Autogenic therapy (Dorothy Crowther). Biofeedback (David Bray). Bach flower remedies (Ruth Benor). Communication skills and counseling (Anne Cawthorn). Healing (Denise Rankin-Box). Herbal medicine (Helen Busby). Homeopathy (Kenneth Atherton). Humour and laughter therapy (Jane Mallett). Hypnosis (Denise Rankin-Box). Massage (Carol Horrigan). Music as therapy(Fran Biley). Naturopathy (Brian Isbell). Osteopathy (Brian Daniels). Reflexology (Pamela Griffiths). Relaxation and visualisation (Lynn Ryman and Denise Rankin-Box). Shiatsu (Caroline Stevensen). Therapeutic touch (Jean Sayre-Adams).