This Clinical Practice Exchange focuses on alternative healing in nurse-midwifery practice. It features interviews with six certified nurse-midwives (CNMs) who practice complementary therapies (CTs). The healing modalities they use include homeopathy, Healing Touch, hypnosis, herbal healing, mindful
COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE HEALING IN MIDWIFERY CARE
β Scribed by Jeanne Raisler
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Weight
- 53 KB
- Volume
- 44
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0091-2182
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