Contrast among organizations
health based on external agents or disharmony among humans, metaphysical forces and the universe.
Question 3. Contrast among organizations
While professional and folktale care systems share structural features, there are some obvious characteristics that differentiate them. Professional care systems are taught, learned and transmitted where care takers are provided with knowledge and skills about care, wellness, illness and others related to practice in professional institutions (Andres & Bolye, 2016).
On the other hand, in folktale healing systems, a set of beliefs and a shared social dimension is reflected in what people do when ill and when based on social standards of what they are supposed to do. In professional system, care is delivered in a multidisciplinary approach where people with specialized knowledge, including nurses, physicians and licensed healthcare providers serve the consumer of healthcare (Andres & Bolye, 2016).
Under other conditions, the folktale system depends on a laid health care that is indigenous or generic with naturalistic healing taking pre-eminent in and is essentially defined by a society’s history of traditions rather than training.
Question 4. Definition
Allopathic medicine is science-based medicine that involves the use of surgery and medication for treatment of diseases. Allopathic or modern medicine or mainstream medicine is a health system where nurses, medical doctors, pharmacists and other professional healthcare providers that are licensed to treat disease and its symptoms attend to the needs of healthcare consumers (Sparkman, Hernaez & El-Serag, 2018). In allopathic medicine, treatment is done through the use of surgery, medication, ration and other procedures and therapies.
The use of computers and technology is a perfect example of allopathic medicine. As a nurse, I use and interact with different machinery such as blood sugar machines (glucometer) and blood pressure machines that improve the lives of patients and nurses alike. All this technology coupled with advanced medicines is the reason why the life span of humans has doubled since the early 1900s (Roser, Ortiz-Ospina, & Ritchie, 2019). Furthermore, globalization has called for the rest of the world to adapt and conform to the ways of Western medicine either indirectly or directly, saving millions of lives in the process.
References
Andres, A.M. & Bolye, J.S. (2016). Transcultural Concepts in Nursing Care (7th ed.).
Max Roser, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina & Hannah Ritchie (2019). Life Expectancy. Our World in Data.
Ring, J., Nyquist, J., & Mitchell, S. (2018). Curriculum for culturally responsive health care: The step-by-step guide for cultural competence training. CRC Press.
Sparkman, J., Hernaez, R., & El-Serag, H. B. (2018). Traditional Chinese Medicine to the rescue of allopathic medicine in the co-adjuvant treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma. Translational gastroenterology and hepatology, 3.
