Spiritual Care in Everyday Nursing Practice: A New Approach

ISBN-13: 9780230346963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 224 str.

Janice Clarke

Opis

Tackling the tricky questions which arise in trying to meet a patient's spiritual needs, this book presents a new approach to spiritual care for nurses. With vivid practice vignettes which demonstrate how to translate spiritual awareness into everyday practice, it encourages nurses to see the personhood behind the 'patient' label.

Spis treści

Introduction PART I: INTRODUCING SPIRITUALITY 1. What is Spirituality? 2. Body and Soul: An Integrated Model of the Person 3. Spiritual Care in Modern Nursing PART II: WHAT CAN AFFECT SPIRITUALITY 4. Being Very Young and Being Very Old 5. Being Ill and Suffering 6. Being Religious 7. Having a Mental Illness PART III: HOW TO TURN SPIRITUALITY INTO SPIRITUAL CARE 8. Spiritual Care in Relationships 9. Some Skills for Spiritual Care in Relationships 10. Talking about Spirituality PART IV: MAKING PHYSICAL CARE SPIRITUAL 11. Having a Body/Discomfort and Comfort/Old Body 12. Touch and Touching 13. Helping People to Move 14. Helping People to Bathe 15. Helping People to Eat.

O autorze

Janice Clarke is a nurse, midwife and senior lecturer for the Institute of Health and Society at the University of Worcester, UK. She is also on the board of the British Association for the Study of Spirituality. Janice's doctorate explored the whole issue of nursing and spirituality and she has published and researched critiques of the current approach to spiritual care for many years.

Blurb

As changes in technology, policy and management put an increasing emphasis on processes and procedures in nursing and health care, how do we continue to make room for compassion, the ancient human value that calls most nurses to the profession?

In Spiritual Care in Everyday Nursing Practice, Janice Clarke argues that it is compassionate care of the whole person, body and soul, which is at the heart of nursing practice that values the individual and respects their dignity. Rather than seeing spiritual care as an addition to what nurses already do, this new approach considers it a natural part of compassionate care which doesn't present the nurse with an extra ambiguous burden to deal with.

Providing a brief historical introduction to the concept of spirituality, Clarke examines the ways in which our spiritual life – a source of strength and meaning – can be influenced by factors such as age, illness and suffering, and mental illness, as well as our religious beliefs. Providing a practical guide to talking about and working with spirituality, she explores how nurses might imbue all their practice including the physical aspects of care – from use of touch to helping patients to move, bathe and eat – with an attention to spiritual needs.

A timely, accessible and practical introduction to a concept that is under-explored in contemporary nursing literature, this book will be of great value to students and professionals alike.