Spiritual Care: Nursing Theory, Research, and Practice

ISBN-10: 0130281646
ISBN-13: 9780130281647
Series: Spiritual Care
Pages: 296
Language: English
Published: 2002
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Author: Elizabeth Johnston Taylor

Description

Innate and deeply personal, spirituality is an integral part of each of us. It affects every aspect of life-including one's health. For this reason, spirituality is becoming an increasingly important issue within the nursing community. Nursing the whole patient includes nurturing the spirit. Spiritual Care: Nursing Theory, Research, and Practice is the only text written to address the depth of this subject matter. Written from a universal standpoint, it details the "how-to's" of spiritual caregiving including spiritual assessment, planning care, documentation, ethical concerns, and numerous approaches to nurturing the spirit. Other features include:

A balanced presentation of religion as both a positive and a negative factor that influences health and coping.
Chapter-ending Look Within to Learn features encourage spiritual self-awareness and understanding of how spirituality influences clinical care.
Research Profiles boxed features provide profiles of research studies that focus on spirituality and health.
One Nurse's Story boxed features illustrate a nurse's perspective of concepts and clinical examples of spiritual caregiving.
Chapter-ending Key Points summarize material to reinforce the information presented.