Real-World Nursing Survival Guide Complementary & Alternative Therapies

Nursing students struggling with the challenging and relatively "uncharted" area of complementary and alternative therapies need a resource that guides them through the essentials and highlights what they need to know. This guide offers a visual, engaging approach that clearly explains how to integrate complementary and alternative therapies into more conventional nursing care. Narrows the gap between the facts learned in school and the wisdom that nurses need to survive in the real world. Features original cartoon illustrations and a theme cat cartoon character that walks the student through difficult subjects with a light-hearted, engaging approach to learning. Helps the nursing student integrate complementary and alternative therapies into more conventional health care approaches taught in medical-surgical, pharmacology, and other clinical courses. Presents material in a clear and entertaining way by using adult learning principles and various active-learning strategies to engage nursing students of all ages, backgrounds, and learning styles. Divides information into manageable units and reinforces the learning process. Helps the student quickly identify special content in the chapter with icons for cautions, lifespan considerations, cultural implications, and related websites. Emphasizes essential terminology by bolding Key Words in the narrative and defining them in the margin. Promotes learning with a variety of interactive activities including fill-in the blank, NCLEX®-style review questions, matching, word jumbles, word search, and crossword puzzles. Offers succinct points of advice that students can use to prepare for their clinical rotation.Wren, Kathleen R. is the author of 'Real-World Nursing Survival Guide Complementary & Alternative Therapies' with ISBN 9780721600222 and ISBN 0721600220.