Nursing The Spirit
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Nursing the Spirit
Author: Don Grant
language: en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date: 2023-05-23
Illness and death have always raised profound spiritual concerns. However, today most people experience suffering and treatment in hospitals and other impersonal, bureaucratic facilities whose employees are expected to follow scientific, rationalized norms of behavior. How do professional caregivers—the nurses and other workers who tend to patients—navigate between science and spirituality? Don Grant investigates the subtle ways that nurses at an academic medical center incorporate spirituality into their care work. Based on extensive fieldwork and an in-depth survey on spirituality, this book finds that many nurses see themselves as responsible for not only patients’ physical health but also their spiritual well-being. They believe they are able to reconcile science and spirituality through storytelling and claim that they can provide more spiritual care than chaplains. However, nurses rarely talk about religion among themselves because they are concerned that their colleagues are uncomfortable discussing spirituality. Nevertheless, by seeking to honor patients’ ultimate worth as human beings, many nurses are able to instantiate spiritual values of care. Grant interweaves his experiences as a hospital volunteer chaplain and a living liver-transplant donor with empirical analyses of nurses’ spiritual work. Developing a new understanding of the social significance of religion, Nursing the Spirit recasts the intersection of science and spirituality by centering the perspectives of the people who provide care.
Nursing the Spirit
Author: Dorothy L. Wilt
language: en
Publisher: American Nurses Association
Release Date: 2001
Looking at spirituality broadly, this book offers practical advice to nurses on how to give spiritual care to patients. It is written in inclusive language to help nurses of all faiths address the spiritual needs of patients who may be from different belief systems and cultures. Case stories gathered from nurses from all types of practice settings around the country demonstrate the variety of ways of supporting patients spiritually. Wilt is a nurse psychotherapist and a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.
Spirituality in Nursing
Author: Mary Elizabeth O'Brien
language: en
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Release Date: 2014
Spirituality in Nursing: Standing on Holy Ground, Fifth Edition explores the relationship between spirituality and the practice of nursing from a variety of perspectives, including: * Nursing assessment of patients' spiritual needs * The nurse's role in the provision of spiritual care * The spiritual nature of the nurse-patient relationship * The spiritual history of the nursing profession * Contemporary interest in spirituality within the nursing profession This Fifth Edition includes a new chapter titled, "Prayer in Nursing" which includes information on topics such as the history of prayer in nursing, finding time for prayer in nursing, prayer and nursing practice, and the ethics of praying with patients. A second new chapter titled, "The Spirituality of Caring: A Sacred Covenant Model of Caring for Nursing Practice," explores the history of spirituality in nurse caregiving and spiritual concepts in nursing theories of caring. A concept analysis of nurses' caring as a sacred covenant includes the "Sacred Covenant Model of Caring for Nursing Practice," a model for clinical practice developed by the author.