title: Informing nurses of the lived experience of acupuncture treatment: a phenomenological account.
abstract: Acupuncture is a component of Traditional Chinese Medicine, focusing on a holistic, energy-based approach to the individual, rather than a disease-oriented, diagnostic, and treatment model. Nurses are increasingly involving themselves in the use of acupuncture as practitioners and as supporters of acupuncture in mainstream health care. This project described the lived experience of acupuncture treatment, with specific objectives to: inform nurses of people's experiences of having acupuncture; give nurses the language to explain to patients the experience of having acupuncture; and create possibilities for offering acupuncture as an informed choice of treatment in nursing and health care. The phenomenon of experiencing acupuncture was located within the participants' accounts of what it was like for them before, during, and after treatment.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Health Care Practices, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia. vgriffit@scu.edu.au
authors.forename: Viv
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Griffiths
authors.forename: Bev
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002755:Choice Behavior; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004244:Dizziness / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D005221:Fatigue / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D009517:New South Wales; D024802:Nurse's Role; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012660:Semantics