The nurse is educating a client on the characteristics of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Which characteristic should the nurse not include in the teaching?
1. Promote disease prevention, self-care, and self-healing
2. Replace all traditional medication
3. Focus on treating each individual person
4. Consider the health of the whole person
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Rationale 1: Promoting disease prevention, self-care, and self-healing is a characteristic of CAM.
Rationale 2: Replacing all traditional medication is not a characteristic of CAM.
Rationale 3: Focusing on treating each individual person is a characteristic of CAM.
Rationale 4: Considering the health of the whole person is a characteristic of CAM.
Global Rationale: Replacing all traditional medication is not a characteristic of CAM. Promoting disease prevention, self-care, and self-healing; focusing on treating each individual person; and considering the health of the whole person are characteristics of CAM.
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