- Explain the Office of Alternative Medicine's definition of complementary and alternative (CAM) medicine as a social process.
- Describe the evidence suggesting a role for nurses in promoting better communication between physicians and patients using CAM.
- Explain the concepts of holism and the goal of holistic nursing.
- Identify four common forms of touch therapy.
- Describe what happens during a biofeedback session.
- Describe the goals that yoga and meditative practices have in common.
- Differentiate between the purposes and the effects of meditation.
- Define disease from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine.
- Define health from the perspective of chiropractic.
- Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the homeopathic theory "like cures like."
