Spirituality in Nursing Practice: The Basics and Beyond

by Doreen, A. Westera RN, MscN, MEd

Overview

Delivers a wealth of practical information for fulfilling the spiritual needs of all patients and their families

Written as a practical resource to teach nurses and nursing students, this text explores how to best address spiritual assessment and care. Spirituality, the search for meaning in life and connection to others, remains relevant to all patient interactions, and an essential component for nurses to integrate into their everyday practice. Using a multicultural and client-centered approach, chapters explore the concept of spirituality, and its relationship with religion and health to directly place spiritualty in a nursing context. Reflection questions interspersed throughout encourage the reader to analyze their own experiences with spirituality within both professional and personal contexts and affirm how a nurse’s own spirituality can influence her or his practice.

Practical exercises illustrate the importance of spirituality in nursing and provide tools and means to incorporate spirituality into clinical practice. Chapters use a flexible approach that can be adapted to a variety of contexts in nursing education and practice throughout North America and beyond, applicable for self-study, traditional courses, and on-line programs. They contain a wealth of pedagogical features including case studies, discussion questions, a comprehensive bibliography, and an extensive Instructor’s Manual that provides additional direction for discussion and testing. Thirteen videos, developed by the author and available online, provide the perspectives of nursing and health care professionals, clients, and families to illustrate the main points of the text.

Key Features:

• Delivers a wealth of practical tools for incorporating spirituality into nursing
• Useful for self-study, on-campus courses, and online programs
• Contains a variety of pedagogical features including consistent format, discussion questions, reflective exercises, case studies, Instructors Manual
• Applicable to nursing education and practice in North American and beyond
• Promotes holistic nursing practice

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826120632
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	11/14/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	362
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Doreen Westera, MscN, MEd, RN, taught nursing for more than 30 years at three different universities in Canada: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; and Memorial University (from which she retired in 2015). She conducts workshops on the topic of spirituality in nursing and health care practice for Nurses Christian Fellowship Canada.

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I

Spirituality in Nursing: The Basics

1 The Concept of Spirituality

2 Religion, Spirituality, and Health

3 Rationale and Challenges for Spirituality in Nursing

4 Competencies for Spiritual Assessment and Care

5 Spiritual Assessment

6 Spiritual Care

PART II

Spiritual Assessment and Care in Various Clinical Contexts

7 Spirituality in Serious, Life-Threatening, and Chronic Illness

8 Spirituality in Mental Health Care

9 Spirituality and the Older Adult

10 Spirituality in Palliative Care

Appendix A

Boutell's Inventory for Identifying the Nurses’ Assessment of Patients' Spiritual Needs

Appendix B

Wellness Spirituality Prool

Index