The Importance Of Spirituality In Nursing

The power of prayer in protection is a profound and essential aspect of spiritual life for many individuals and religious communities worldwide. Prayer is not merely a ritual or set of words; it is a heartfelt communication with a higher power, a means of seeking guidance, strength, and divine intervention. Throughout history, countless people have turned to prayer as a source of protection in times of adversity, danger, and

1. The Suffering and the Mystery of Evil “Man suffers whenever he experiences any kind of evil.” The concept of suffering and evil are closely connected. Pope John Paul II addresses this relationship between suffering and evil in his apostolic letter as follows: Man suffers on account of evil, which is certain lack, limitation or distortion of good. We could say that man suffers because of a good in which he does not share, from which in a certain sense he is cut off, or of which he has deprived himself. He particularly suffers when he an ought-in the normal order of things-to have share in this good and does not have it.

Theo-Ethnic Reflection The role of mission work in the life of Christian nurses is significant. I believe that all Christians are called to work as the hands and feet of God. This calling in the lives of Christian nurses is specifically geared towards health promotion and healing.

This essay will identify and describe the role of the writer as a practitioner of pastoral thanatology about the challenges faced by and support provided to the individuals and families, congregations and communities, and the policy makers and financial stakeholders. Families faced with EOL decisions leads to stress and depression. As a practitioner of pastoral thanatology, the pastor first evaluates the attitudes of the family as a whole as well as the individual. According to Kubler-Ross, "the majority of the patients know of their impending death whether they have been told or not."(234) The pastor not only attends to the needs of the family, but the practitioner has to consider the patient as an individual and what is best for them.

It is the person and their physical, emotional, and psychological needs that are the basic focus of nursing’s attention. In order to care for a patient, the nurse must incorporate all these needs. For example, providing reassurance with an anxious patient who just finished hip surgery. Care also plays a major part when taking care of a unique patient. Caring influences my personal philosophy because it is the most important aspect of nursing.

It is critical to be able to do this because, some health care workers going into this may have different ideas on the matter. Therefore, it is important to know that spirituality is about things like forgiveness, love,

Geest, in his essay ‘Sacraments in the Hospital: Exploring the Magic and Religion of Recovery’ discusses, the magical and religious dimension of hospital work, which fills patients with hope for a future life and recreates people’s belief in biomedicine as ultimate truth, through a series of medical words and interventions (Geest, 2005). Relativize to the old dichotomist world view, which Geest believes to have hindered the anthropological understanding of clinical efficacy, he proposes that there is warm reality of human living in the cool abstractions of science (Redfield, 1948). Controversy on Magic, Science and Religion Malinowski’s definitions more or less captures the popular view on the three concepts. As described in his book, magic is a practical art and a symbolic ritual

I’m sure she knew I heard my aunt’s voice, so I honestly didn't know what to expect; she reached into her pocket and pulled out a bible and handed the bible to me. She held my hands tight, begin praying for me and everyone in the room said Amen when she finished. Next Nurse Tanya hugged me tightly and told me I would always be in her prayers. She left the room with as a tear was forming in her left eye and this left me confused. I could expect this from nurse Vivian; me and her had a few heart to heart conversations that left both of us in tears already.

Reed’s process model for clinical specialty education and psychiatric mental health nursing practice articulates relationships among the metaparadigm constructs of health, persons and their environments, and nursing activity (Smith & Liehr, 2014). Self-transcendence theory delineates specific concepts from Reed’s process model: constructs of health (i.e., well-being), a person (i.e., self-transcendence), and environment (i.e., vulnerability), and it proposes relationships among these concepts to direct nursing activities (1986, 1987). Reed (1991) and Coward and Reed (1996) have suggested nursing activities that facilitate the expansion of self-conceptual boundaries journaling, art activities, meditation, life review, and religious expression,

Hence, many healthcare workers provide care to patients in a way that is acceptable from medical viewpoints along with what is socially acceptable from past patient experiences. Likewise, individual experiences also construct how a nurse cares for patients in ways that are deemed normal and acceptable. For example, spirituality and spiritual rituals can be perceived as significant components in the healing process (Hemberg, & Vilander, 2017). As a nurse, with a strong Christian background as a former Mennonite, healing practices that my culture embraces include anointing one’s head with holy oils, large prayer groups, and fasting as spiritual ways to combat bodily ailments. My cultural background views this physical body as a weak entity with the belief that a person’s physical body may decline and die, but the spirit lives on forever.

Therefore, a spiritual qualitative analysis could help us to assess the personal impact of a disease, values and meaning in a person’s life. Speelman developed a narrative spiritual method in order to find values and meaning within the personal daily stories of people (10–12). The method is looking in stories for the motivation to perform actions, the values that are important and the competences that are needed or lacking. The use of such a qualitative method has been used before (13–17) and succeeded to retrieve relevant information regarding meaning, values and illness, in people with serious illness.

Spirituality is defined as “the aspect of humanity that refers to the way individuals seek and express meaning and purpose and the way they experience their connectedness to the moment, to self, to others, to nature, and to the significant or sacred,” (Puchalski, 2013, p. 493). Repeatedly, studies show spirituality does in fact play a significant role in the health, welfare and recovery of the patient. The patient has always been the center of focus when studies have been conducted on spirituality in healthcare, until recently, when the question arose regarding the impact of spirituality in healthcare on the healthcare worker. Healthcare organizations should be required to incorporate spirituality into their routine treatment regimen in order to inspire happiness in healthcare workers, impact patient health, build stronger relationships with the Catholic Church, support treatment in a whole-person setting and dedicate an entire system to spiritual healthcare to include the patient, clinician, and

”One of the greatest challenges of a nurse is to find comfort for patients” (Yousefi & Ali Abedi, 201). Patients feel discomfort that goes far beyond physical pain as that felt after a surgical procedure or an injury. Distress experienced by a patient as a result of any number of things can impair healing, increase mortality, and lead to poor outcomes. Treating the patient holistically and having a clear understanding of the relationship between the mind, body and spirt is imperative to meeting the spiritual needs of the patient. Spirituality becomes increasingly important in older adults later in life as they face issues such as chronic illness and their own mortality.

Spirituality can be a very important factor in many people’s life. According to the Physical Examination and Health Assessment book, “Spirituality is borne out of each person's unique life experience and his or her personal effort to find purpose and meaning in life” (Jarvis, 2016, p 15). Spirituality differs in everyone because most the time people have a different definition on what exactly spirituality is. It can be found anywhere at any time especially in the hospital scene when patients depend on it. People do not realize it, but it can have an effect on how they seek medical help or proper care when they are in need, especially with the person’s care plan, or when a physically assessment needs to be completed.

In contrast in Van Leeuwen (2008) the students’ vision of holistic nursing care influenced their scoring on the subscale ‘referral to professionals’. This outcome suggested that students think spiritual care must first be addressed by pastors, hospital chaplains and other disciplines, and when nurses assess a patient’s spiritual problem or needs, they should refer the patient to an expert and not provide the care themselves. This outcome could also confirm the frequent ambiguity detected in nurses’ sense of responsibility for spiritual care (McSherry 2007, Van Leeuwen et al. 2006), which has led to a lack of clarity about the position of the subject of spirituality within nursing. Furthermore by involving other disciplines in