When Teaching About the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine

question 20

Multiple Choice

When teaching about the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) , which patient statement indicates to the nurse the need for additional education?

• A)"The goals of care for CAM and conventional medicine are very different."
• B)"The term alternative is used when the treatment is outside of conventional methods."
• C)"The term complementary refers to CAM practices that are paired with conventional medicine."
• D)"The top ten reasons adult seek CAM include things such as pain, anxiety, depression, and headaches."

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Definitions:

Probability

The extent to which an event is likely to occur, measured by the ratio of the favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is believed to contain the true value of an unknown population parameter with a certain degree of confidence.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or spread of a set of data points relative to its mean.

Point Estimate

A single value (or point) estimate derived from sample data to approximate a population parameter.