American Holistic Nurses' Association Guide to Common Chronic Conditions: Self-Care Options to Complement Your Doctor's Advice

go beyond standard medical treatment to treat yourself to wellness

Suffering from a serious condition? Do you have questions that your doctor may not have answered–and are you wondering if you’re doing everything you possibly can to get and stay well?

Turn to this authoritative, compassionate resource when you’re seeking further guidance and reassurance. Written by a certified holistic nurse and approved by the most respected professional association of holistic nurses, American Holistic Nurses’ Association Guide to Common Chronic Conditions offers a blend of traditional, alternative, and complementary advice that works in conjunction with your doctor’s care. Based on the latest scientific research, this holistic self-care guide covers twenty chronic conditions, providing you with the total picture of your condition and explaining in clear, friendly language what you can do to complement your doctor’s prescribed treatment. Holistic nurses engage in therapeutic partnerships with their clients, and this book will work with you to help you understand your condition and teach you specific, safe actions you can take to feel better and improve your health.

• Offers a host of self-care measures
• Presents thorough explanations of each condition, from diagnosis to enhanced wellness
• Addresses side effects and reactions to medicines, treatments, and surgery
• Includes cutting-edge research that supports each self-care approach

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-292) and index.

Written by a nurse and approved by a respected professional association of nurses, this holistic self-care guide offers a blend of traditional, alternative, and complementary advice that works in conjunction with a doctor' s care for nearly twenty serious chronic conditions, from allergies and diabetes to Parkinson' s and cancer. It reviews the whole picture in terms of a patient' s options and recovery, offering traditional medical advice, advising on side effects of treatment and preventati measures, and offering a host of measures that can be tried in conjunction with traditional prescriptions and treatments.

Carolyn Chambers Clark, ARNP, EdD, HNC (Englewood, FL), is founder of The Wellness Institute and serves on the Health Services Doctoral Faculty at Walden University. She is certified as a holistic nurse by the American Holistic Nurses' Certification Corporation. Clark has published widely on complementary, holistic, and self-care topics.

CAROLYN CHAMBERS CLARK, ARNP, EdD, HNC, is on the Health Services Doctoral Faculty at Walden University. Dr. Clark founded The Wellness Institute and currently serves on the advisory board for the American Association of Integrative Medicine. She is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing as well as an award-winning author who has published widely on complementary, holistic, and self-care topics.

Foreword.

Acknowledgments.

Why You May Need This Book.

Conditions AIDS.

Allergies.

Alzheimer?s Disease.

Arthritis.

Cancer.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Depression.

Diabetes.

Digestive Problems.

Fibromyalgia.

Heart and Blood Vessel Disorders.

Kidney Disease.

Liver and Gallbladder Diseases.

Multiple Sclerosis.

Osteoporosis.

Overweight/Obesity.

Pain.

Parkinson?s Disease.

Sleep Disorders.

References.

Index.

About the AHNA.