Spiritual Care: Nursing Theory, Research, and Practice - Softcover

Taylor Ph.D. RN, Elizabeth Johnston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130281646 ISBN 13: 9780130281647

Publisher: Pearson, 2001

Synopsis

Appropriate for courses addressing issues and trends, spirituality and health, or psychosocial approaches to care.

This text provides practical guidance on many aspects of spiritual caregiving. It addresses many relevant topics including spiritual assessment, planning care, documentation, ethical concerns of sharing personal spiritual beliefs, and numerous approaches to nurturing the spirit.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0130281646
• ISBN 13: 9780130281647
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320