Nursing People Supportively Through Acute Viral Illness including COVID-19
Event Information
About this Event
This is an ONLINE event using ZOOM
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Looking at health beliefs and fears around acute child and adult viral illness and infections including COVID-19 and learning about:
Part One
How the Germ Theory of Disease and the Medical Model affect the treatment options you are offered
The Holistic model of disease – using the healing power of your own or your child’s body to remove accumulated toxins and improve your/ their health
The Problems caused by Suppression of Fever
Part Two
The Basic strategies for coping with any acute viral illness or infection
A Simple Guide to Homoeopathy for Acute Fever
Presentation of clinical cases showing the invasive disease that occurs when the basic principles are not followed - meningitis
With special reference to coronavirus disease.
How to boost the immune system of adults and those with poor health with specific strategies for Coronavirus
Plenary/ Questions
AIMS
To ensure that participants:
+ Achieve a reinforced understanding of the logical reasons why children and adults contract infectious diseases, and the rationale for supportive treatment of such conditions with reference to COVID-19
+ Are confident implementing NICE Guidelines regarding paracetamol and ibuprofen use in fever in children and adults.
+ Know that NICE Guidelines do not recommend paracetamol or ibuprofen to prevent febrile convulsions.
+ Have knowledge of a range of simple practical measures that can be implemented by everyone to provide supportive management of child and adult acute viral illness and relief of distress.
+ Therapists can use these simple adjuncts to their standard care to increase therapeutic success and are able to easily explain the mechanisms of common conditions to parents/ carers, in simple terms, so that parents/ carers feel empowered and less anxious.
+ Are confident in practical adjuncts to management of specific conditions in addition to regular practice
An ebook of this lecture is available at the website :
http://www.jayne-donegan.co.uk/articles
Other lectures by Dr Jayne Donegan
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