Date of Award
Winter 12-7-2011
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Nursing (MAN)
Department
Nursing
First Advisor
Cheryl Leuning
Abstract
The use of integrative medicine is growing, and the nursing profession has a responsibility to meet the changing needs of patients. This paper describes a model of nursing for delivering integrative medicine practices at the bedside to persons suffering with post-traumatic headache pain related to traumatic brain injury (TBI) and is grounded in Katherine Kolcaba's Comfort Theory. A patient is best served when the holistic principles of integrative medicine are facilitated by a nurse who is centered and able to introduce these modalities with positive intention. The goal of the practice model is to provide the foundation for nursing to capture these principles when at the bedside. Through the use of the nursing practice model, nursing can deliver the integrative medicine approaches that will help the patient to achieve the relief ease, and transcendence as described in the principles of Comfort Theory.
Identifier
SC 11.MAN.2011.Allard.ME
Recommended Citation
Allard, Melissa E., "Introducing Integrative Medicine at the Bedside to Patients with Post-traumatic Headache Pain" (2011). Theses and Graduate Projects. 626.
https://idun.augsburg.edu/etd/626