Complementary medicine

A discussion post sharing a single case from practice or the literature in which alternative therapies were used alongside conventional care to facilitate the management of an acute or chronic cardiovascular condition.

An educational session for every health care team in the organization — not a paper about CAM. The deliverable is teaching material: an agenda slide, a resource list your audience can act on, and an ethics-law-economics section that treats CAM as a clinical reality rather than a curiosity.

A three-to-four page MLA research paper on a yes-or-no question, where the honest answer is qualified and the evidence you need sits in medical journals rather than wellness blogs.

Three deliverables hiding in four short lines: evaluate a real website advertising a CAM therapy of your choice for accuracy and ethics, then recommend a better one — an exercise in reading the internet the way your future patients do, with a clinician's checklist in hand.

A professional paper of at least six pages outlining how ginseng, hawthorn, L-arginine and St John's wort affect the cardiovascular system, covering for each the effect, anticipated benefits, identified risks or adverse effects, relevant patient education and a supporting scholarly reference, in APA format without an abstract.

Select one patient complaint such as insomnia, review the major herbs recommended for it, find a peer-reviewed research article studying one of those substances, describe the study and its results, and explain how it would influence your action as an advanced practice nurse.

A Herzing NU 636 Unit 1 discussion post reflecting on a personal or observed experience with a complementary, alternative or integrative health modality and constructing the discussion using the PDSA schemata, supporting the Plan aspect with scholarly resources and comparing the Study aspect with published findings.

Four questions, and the fourth quietly switches subject: homeopathic dilution is a separate system from naturopathy, and conflating them is the error the question is set up to catch.