Fitch M I, Gray R E, Greenberg M, Labrecque M, Douglas M S
Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, Ontario, Canada.
Cancer Nurs. 1999 Jun;22(3):238-45. doi: 10.1097/00002820-199906000-00008.
Unconventional therapies have become increasingly popular with health care consumers in recent years. As patients seek information and attempt to make decisions about unconventional therapies, they often turn to nurses, asking the nurse's opinion about certain therapies. The nurse's attitudes and beliefs about unconventional therapies quite likely will influence the response to the patient's inquiries. This article represents the findings of interviews with 20 nurses regarding their perspectives on unconventional therapies. Without exception, all nurses who were interviewed emphasized that information regarding unconventional therapies needs to be available readily for both patients and health care professionals. Other themes identified in the interviews included the following: Various people use unconventional therapies; people seek unconventional therapies for a variety of reasons; communication about unconventional therapies needs to be open, and a place should be found for unconventional therapies. The interviewees saw a clearly defined role for nurses regarding unconventional therapies.
近年来，非传统疗法在医疗保健消费者中越来越受欢迎。当患者寻求信息并试图就非传统疗法做出决定时，他们常常会向护士咨询，询问护士对某些疗法的看法。护士对非传统疗法的态度和信念很可能会影响对患者询问的回应。本文介绍了对20名护士就其对非传统疗法的看法进行访谈的结果。无一例外，所有接受采访的护士都强调，患者和医疗保健专业人员都需要随时能够获取有关非传统疗法的信息。访谈中确定的其他主题包括：各种各样的人使用非传统疗法；人们寻求非传统疗法的原因多种多样；关于非传统疗法的交流需要开放，并且应该为非传统疗法找到一席之地。受访者认为护士在非传统疗法方面有着明确的角色。
