http://www.chinesemedicinetherapy.com Traditional Chinese Medicine,Acupressure,Acupuncture,Skill Techniques Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:32:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en  Western medicine has been the main form of healthcare in Singapore for many years. However, recently we seen TCM enjoys considerable popularity as a complementary form of healthcare. According to Singapore’s media release in 2001, it has been estimated that about 45% of the population in Singapore had ever ... http://www.chinesemedicinetherapy.com/chinese-medicne/tcm-and-nursing What is foot reflexology? Foot reflexology is a form of foot massage and sometimes accompanied by acupressure techniques that targets at points on the foot that are correspond to parts of the organ of the body. As according to Byers (1983), the reflex areas or points in the feet are correspond to all ... http://www.chinesemedicinetherapy.com/chinese-medicne/foot-reflexology PRESENTED BY: Steven Yip          Andy Tan Maurice Wong      Melvin Kwan Outline: Introduction Current Practice “Burning Question” Reasons For Change Literature Review Appraisal and Synthesis of Evidence Recommendations for Best Practice Integration of New Practice Summary References Clinical Best Practice - NGT Introduction Critically ill patients are difficult to feed often resulting in MALNUTRITION! Giner et al., Barr et al., 2004, found out that ICU patients, 43% to ... http://www.chinesemedicinetherapy.com/nursing/clinical-best-practice-nasogastric-tube-feeding-for-stroke-patients Legal and ethical issues are always evolving around us whenever we are nursing our patients. Hopefully, this article will keep you thinking and  get you to recall events that you have encountered.  Whatever you are doing, whether they are ethically correct or you are just obligated to do what you are told to do ... http://www.chinesemedicinetherapy.com/nursing/medical-social-legal-and-ethical-issues One of my clients called me to complain that he had 2 episodes of fits in a day and each lasted for half a minute. He went to a hospital and had his blood tested for Phenytoin, which is an antiepileptic drug. His blood result was normal. The doctor in the Emergency Dept, prescribed another drug for ... http://www.chinesemedicinetherapy.com/chinese-medicne/keppra Chronic low back pain is among the most common chronic pain syndromes. It can cause unnecessary suffering and upset a person's life at home and on the job. What causes the low back pain? Well, Injuries, infection or inflammation are often the origin of low back pain. Most cases result ... http://www.chinesemedicinetherapy.com/technique/massage-fore-head This is the speech that I gave in July 2005. I was told that my speech had motivated some of the audiences to choose nursing as their second career. I am say that I have no intension to deceive them as the speech was written at the time when I have really strong feeling ... http://www.chinesemedicinetherapy.com/nursing/nursing-3 The Legal issues   Negligence is the area of the civil law where the plaintiff brings action against the defendant. As defined by Staunton and Chiarella (2004, p.36), “The cardinal principle of negligence is that the party complained of should owe to the party complaining a duty to take care, and ... http://www.chinesemedicinetherapy.com/sociology/nursing-2 History does repeat itself. My friend was telling me about the uncertainty of life and health. When we reach 40 health is most vulnerable. There are unknown changes in our bodies and disease creeping in and causing lots of inconvenience to our lifestyle.   It does not help my friend to feel ... http://www.chinesemedicinetherapy.com/diabetes/diabetes-3 Wondering why I join nursing? I managed to retrieve my interview notes with the Straits Times in 2005. Sound very persuasive but the truth about nursing can be very “cruel”. It was unfortunate that I injured my hand and my dreams were crashed (including my migration dream)….sigh.However, I have learnt ... http://www.chinesemedicinetherapy.com/nursing/becoming-a-knowledgable-tcm-practitioner-learning-from-nursing