Importance Of Spiritual Assessments

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Spiritual Assessment Tools
Introduction
A spiritual assessment is a key component of a complete health assessment. Although used interchangeably spirituality and religion are slightly different. Spirituality is the person’s own personal experience and religion is beliefs about how an individual practices a particular faith. Spirituality provides the patient the opportunity to discuss their views on interventions regarding their care. It is an assessment area that needs the art of therapeutic communication to develop a trusting relationship with the patient. A spiritual assessment is used in either a focused or complete assessment when the examiner wants to provide a holistic approach. The spiritual assessment provides a unique approach to health. …show more content…

971). This approach in the clinical setting can be challenging since it takes on a wider view of spirituality. In a complete health assessment this approach may be used but it is not practical for application in a focused assessment.
Conclusion
Spirituality is a key component of nursing assessments. There are tools available such as the Spiritual Care Giving Scale and the FACT tool for the practitioner to perform spiritual assessments. By utilizing these tools in the clinical setting the practitioner takes on a holistic approach when providing patient care.

References
Alshammari, F. (May 9th, 2016). Psychometric Properties of the Spiritual Care-Giving Scale–Arabic Version in Saudi Nursing. Journal of Holistic Nursing, 35(2), 175-184.
Draper P. (2012) Journal of Nursing Management20, 970–980 An integrative review of spiritual assessment: implications for nursing management
LaRocca-Pitts, M. (2015). Four FACTs Spiritual Assessment Tool. Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, 21(2), 51-59. doi:10.1080/08854726.2015.1015303
Leeuwen, R. V., Schep-Akkerman, A., & Laarhoven, H. W. (2013). Screening Patient Spirituality and Spiritual Needs in Oncology Nursing. Holistic Nursing Practice, 27(4), 207-216.

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