Abstract
Introduction: When it comes to integrative medicine, the nurses are "caught in a trap" of their own views and developed competencies, as well as the views of the institution and the country where they work. The pilot study’s objective was to explore what is the expected reaction of nurses to the patient’s request for complementary treatment with tea in hospitals where integrative nursing has not yet been normatively recognised.
 Methods: The quantitative research approach with a survey was used. Nonprobability sampling covered 506 persons from Southeast Slovenia, paticipating voluntarily: nurses, nursing students, patients and other persons. Respondents were to choose among the 11 previously prepared scenarios of possible responses of the nurse.
 Results: Significant differences regarding the expected reaction of nurses both within the groups, as well as between the groups of respondents were found. The most possible critical response of nurses was to offer the tea which is daily available on the ward. A fifth of respondents believe that the patient’s tea would be provided by the visiting relatives.
 Conclusion: Due to the prepared scenarios, findings and given orientations for further research, the study can be further implemented in the international environment for empirical verification.
Highlights
When it comes to integrative medicine, the nurses are “caught in a trap” of their own views and developed competencies, as well as the views of the institution and the country where they work
Due to the prepared scenarios, findings and given orientations for further research, the study can be further implemented in the international environment for empirical verification
The exact question was: “If a patient brought a tea mixture of medicinal herbs with them to the hospital and asked the nurse to prepare the tea for them, how would the nurse respond?” The results show differences in the expected reaction of nurses between the groups of participants in the population: Nurses, nursing students, patients, and residents
Summary
When it comes to integrative medicine, the nurses are “caught in a trap” of their own views and developed competencies, as well as the views of the institution and the country where they work. Our aim was to explore what is the expected reaction of nurses to the patient’s request for complementary treatment with tea in hospitals where integrative nursing has not yet been normatively recognized. The argument of this paper is the discussion regarding the responsiveness of nurses to the patient’s request to prepare them a specific tea for the purpose of medical treatment in public hospitals where integrative medicine and nursing have not yet been normatively recognized. A strong trend of integrative medicine and nursing has been established [4]. Journal of Health Sciences 2017;7(2):115123 number of users of alternative and complementary medicine is increasing rapidly and varies between 40 and 70% [5,6]. There is a noticeable trend of gradual institutionalization of individual forms of treatment [7]
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