Fitch M I, Gray R E, Greenberg M, Douglas M S, Labrecque M, Pavlin P, Gabel N, Freedhoff S
Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, Canada.
Cancer Nurs. 1999 Feb;22(1):90-6. doi: 10.1097/00002820-199902000-00016.
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 their opinion about certain therapies. The nurse's attitudes and beliefs about unconventional therapies very likely will influence the response to the patient's inquiries. This work represents the findings of interviews with 48 nurses regarding their perspectives on unconventional therapies. Without exception, all nurses interviewed emphasized the need for information regarding unconventional therapies to be readily available for patients and health care professionals. The 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 conventional and unconventional practitioners ought to work collaboratively. The participants interviewed 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策时，他们常常会向护士请教，询问他们对某些疗法的看法。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。这项工作展示了对48名护士进行访谈的结果，内容涉及他们对非传统疗法的看法。无一例外，所有接受访谈的护士都强调，需要为患者和医疗保健专业人员提供随时可用的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；传统和非传统从业者应该合作。接受访谈的参与者明确看到了护士在非传统疗法方面的特定作用。
