Ethics: Standards of Conduct and Professional Practice
Acupuncture Therapies for Inpatient and Hospital-based Care
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Safety in Acupuncture Therapy: Risk and Harms
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Safety in Acupuncture Therapy: Risk and Harms | immediately after purchase | for 2 years |
Acupuncture therapies have a relative risk that is low. The reporting of adverse events in clinical trials as well as safety surveys has helped establish a positive safety record for acupuncture needling in the West. Patients may experience minor side effects such as feeling relaxed, elated, tired, or having point sensation or itching etc. or slight bleeding and hematoma on needle withdrawal.
- Assessment of Safety in Acupuncture Profession
- Adverse events surveys
- Tracking of AE in clinical trials
- Reports of cases: from hysterical/inaccurate to accurate and vastly underreported.
- Specific area of ethical standards that require review
- Common mild side effects
- Reports of deep needling damage organ and tissue damage
- Broken needles
- Reports of infection and pathogens involved including
- Staph and MRSA
- TB and non-TB mycobacterium
- Actinomycosis, Strep, Klebsiella. Gemella
- Reports of bleeding and hematoma
- Curious other risks: needle coating, tattoos
- Standards of safety must involve practitioners be familiar with reports in the literature and updates re risk that may alter safety measure.
Ethics: Standards of Conduct and Professional Practice
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Ethics: Standards of Conduct and Professional Practice | immediately after purchase | for 2 years |
The Belmont Report (1979) altered the course of medical ethics in research and clinical care articulating core principles of respect for persons, beneficence (non-maleficence) and justice applied through informed consent and assessment of risk and benefits. Two rules of beneficent actions are 1) Do no harm and 2) Maximize possible benefits and minimize possible harms.
- Overview, Ethics of Practice Conduct.
- Practitioner and Professions Standards re Ethics
- Are practitioners up to date on professional standards
- What does the profession require re being current on professional standards?
- Specific area of ethical standards that require review
- Acupuncture needle depths to avoid organ and tissue damage
- Acupuncture therapy standards to prevent infection
- Acupuncture therapy standards to prevent bleeding and hematoma
- Ethics re professional standards for acupuncture needle depths
- Ethics re professional standards for preventing infection
- Ethics re professional standards to prevent injury from bleeding and hematoma
- Questions of professional standards when science is equivocal: Error on the side of caution to risk and longevity
- Professional standards re practitioner health, specifically related to inpatient care
- Ethical issues re terminology of practice and patient referents.
Arya Nielsen Gua Sha 11 Module Package
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This registration page allows you to register for all 11 modules with just one click of "Add to Cart". You save approximately $270USD if you register for the complete 11 Module Package compared to registering individually for all 11 modules one at a time.
Module 4 and Module 5 are each 5 CEU/PDA/CPD and satisfy requirements for professional issues and safety for NCCAOM CTCMA, Texas and AACMA.
Module 5 is approved for Florida requirement of "Prevention of Medical Errors."
Module 10: Results and Recommendations
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Module 10: Results and Recommendations | immediately after purchase | for 2 years |
This seminar discusses and details the results of Gua sha within a session, how to interpret the quality, color, size, age and facility of sha in the context of presenting problem if acute pain, illness, or chronic illness with features of pain. What to expect after treatment and at the next session including how to interpret change is also discussed. What to recommend to the patient for care after Gua sha is specified.
- Evaluation of the expression of sha within a session
- Quality, color, size, recent or old; how fast does it fade to ecchymosis
- Relationship to presenting problem
- Context in acute illness
- Context in acute pain
- Context in chronic illness
- Evaluation of sha after session
- Recommendations for patient following Gua sha
- re pain
- re illness
- re leaking
- Evaluation at next session
- Stages of resolution in context of problem
- Recurring sha?
- Review, Question and Answers, Program Worksheet and Quiz
Module 11: Treating Specific Disorders with Gua Sha
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Module 11: Treating Specific Disorders with Gua Sha | immediately after purchase | for 2 years |
In this seminar we engage the interactive assessment tools of classical acupuncture practice in the lineage of Dr. James Tin Yau So to explore what, where and when to treat with Gua sha based on the morphology of presenting signs: location, quality, mutability, association and responsiveness of a presentation. Dosage and frequency are discussed based on the nature and longevity of a problem, whether structural, or functional.
- Overview and Background
- Classical practice in lineage of Dr. James Tin Yau So
- Traditional Chinese Medicine TCM bianzheng differentiation
- PRC texts
- ‘Diagnosis’ in Classical interactive practice
- Location
- Quality
- Mutability
- Association
- Incorporating changes within the session itself
- Sorting by Jiao
- Upper jiao
- Respiratory and Cardiac problem
- Musculoskeletal problems: upper jiao and extremities
- Confluence of symptoms of focal sinus inflammation
- Thermal dysregulation, infection and inflammation
- Middle jiao
- Disorders accessible middle jiao
- Example: gallstones
- Middle and Lower jiao
- Disorders accessible middle and lower jiao
- Lower jiao
- Example: hemorrhoids
- Disorders accessible lower jiao
- Upper jiao
- Specifics for Extremity problems
- Example: tennis elbow
- Recap for how to approach treatment from a Classical interactive perspective
- Recap on research supporting the indications for Gua sha covered in this lecture
- Discussion re dosage and frequency
- Acute or chronic disorders
- Recommend review of cases
- Review, Question and Answers, Program Worksheet and Quiz
Module 9: Indications and Applications: Gua Sha
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Module 9: Indications and Applications: Gua Sha | immediately after purchase | for 2 years |
This seminar prepares a participant for the hands-on portion of the Certification Course with Dr. Nielsen.
- Clinical Indications for Gua sha
- East Asian perspective
- Western
- Preparations: setting for Gua sha
- Patient positioning
- Practitioner position and tool grip
- Press-stroking guidelines
- Communications
- Review, Question and Answers, Program Worksheet and Quiz
Module 8: Psycho Spiritual Effect of Gua Sha
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Module 8: Psycho Spiritual Effect of Gua Sha | immediately after purchase | for 2 years |
The modern gaze is fixed on the scientific evidence for ancient medicine. Yet the medicine itself holds a map of mind/body associations that has also fascinated Westerners who suffer a mind-body bifurcation.
This seminar explores the impact of Gua sha on patients’ psycho spiritual life by examining how it is situated in film and books, what impact blood stasis and its resolution have and how this manifests in clinic during and after treatment with discussion of example cases.
Certification Course
- Cultural contexts: East and West
- Taking a history: cultural context of certain questions
- Culture and Gua sha process and appearance
- Review: hx of Western condescension and bias regarding East Asian medicine
- Cultural context: blood and Blood
- Blood signifies: temperament, identity, pedigree
- Blood acts: moves, joins, separates, warms, nourishes, moistens
- Blood stasis pain
- Physical signs
- Psycho spiritual signs
- Resolution of blood stasis
- Physical signs
- Psycho spiritual signs (including alarm at site of petechiae)
- Review, Question and Answers, Program Worksheet and Quiz