Discussion Post
• Discuss the focus and goals of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the concepts that are the basis of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases.
• What is Curanderismo and how will the knowledge of this cultural healing tradition make you a more culturally sensitive nurse?
• Suppose you are faced with a terminally ill client with AIDS who is in a great deal of pain. The client indicates to you in a calm, reasonable way that he/she is going to drive out to an isolated spot in a state park, drink a thermos of margaritas, take out her 9 mm automatic, make an audio tape telling her family how much she loves them and how she doesn't want to be a burden on them, and then kill herself. Run a five-minute crisis intervention session. With the following criteria in mind, how do you feel you did?
-being objective- your own moral view of AIDS and suicide- following Tarasoff.
• Take a position, for or against. Is it better/more important to have online crisis intervention, or face-to-face crisis intervention, and why? Think of yourself in a crisis location where both are available.
o What are the concrete specific advantages of one over the other for you?
o How might you convince someone on the other side of the fence that your side is better?
The response must include a reference list. Using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, double-space, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.