2023 Reply 1 Re Topic 5 DQ 1 Patient centred care allows the patient to have more say in their wellbeing

Reply 1

Re: Topic 5 DQ 1

Patient-centred care allows the patient to have more say in their wellbeing and include personal interest, including spirituality in the treatment plans. Spirituality has a positive impact on promoting the health of a patient. This paper goes through spiritual care in nursing.

Spiritual Care in Nursing

Spiritual care is the part of the care that touches the inner part of a person and their faith to give them a positive outlook and hope in the period of illness. Its purpose to seek resolution, transcend physical and consciousness. Spiritual care is basically on the healing process; it is intrinsically essential throughout human life.

My definition is close to the description of the topic readings is to provide spiritual care as an integral part of caring for a patient incorporating religion in nursing assessment. It should be understood by taking into consideration the diverse religious aspect that is available worldwide (Gone & Giske, 2017). Different patients have different spiritual needs, which might be strange to a healthcare provider. It is important to know patient religion and their views, some people believe in witchcraft in Africa, others such as atheists who question the existence of God, and the agnostic who question the existence of God may need emotional care and more listening. Nurses should always be sensitive when assessing patients’ spiritual needs, referral to a pastoral caregiver can be another better option or intervention from a relative (Timmins & Caldeira,2017).

Conclusion

From the above findings, spiritual care knowledge is essential to all healthcare providers. The patient needs to feel, love, hope, peace, and gratitude. Nurses need to understand a variety of faith and religion to be successful.

References

Cone, P. H., & Giske, T. (2018). Integrating spiritual care into nursing education and practice: strategies utilizing open journey theory.

Timmins, F., & Caldeira, S. (2017). Understanding spirituality and spiritual care in nursing. Nursing Standard, 31(22).
Reply 2

Re: Topic 5 DQ 1

Spiritual care can be defined in different manners depending on the situation. When it comes to me, I define it as the care that responds and recognizes what the human spirit need in times of challenges such as sadness, sickness, and disease, trauma as well as recovering from the loss of a loved one. I believe that in administering spiritual care, one should focus on restoring things like the meaning of life, self-worth, self-acceptance, faith, and hope, and generally be supportive. In nursing practice, a practitioner should ensure that they are conversant with the spirituality of a patient before engaging in a spiritual case. Many individuals belong to different cultural backgrounds and religious backgrounds, where there are certain specific practices in their spirituality that they believe in or abide by. As such, a practitioner should ensure that they understand the spirituality of the individual before administering spiritual care for maximum results.

My definition relates to Shelly and Miller’s explanation of how spiritual care should be and handled. According to Shelly and Miller (2006), spiritual care involves the use of an individual belief in religion to instill faith and hope in their caregiving process. The researchers insist that spiritual care goes hand in hand with a patient’s religion as well as the practitioner’s practices. Religious patients tend to put much faith in their religion for healing and overcoming the diseases. Based on the principle of respect for autonomy, it is upon a practitioner to respect the decision that the patient makes. As such, if a patient is religious and requires spiritual care, it is upon the practitioner to ensure that they achieve this type of care.

Reference

Shelly, J.A. & Miller, A. B (2006) Called to Care: A Christian worldview for nursing (2nd ed.). Downers Grove, Illinois.