INTRODUCTION
Spirituality is core of nursing professional identity (Hensel & Laux, 2014). It is essential to include spirituality in nursing curricula to meet the demands of profession (Wallace et al., 2008). Nursing students perceived high level of spirituality in them (Shores, 2010). Spirituality can be measured in terms of spiritual health, this is a state of being in harmony with self, others, environment and with the transcendent (Fisher, 1998). According to Ellison, spiritual well-being “arises from an underlying state of spiritual health and is an expression of it”. There is positive correlation between spirituality and psychological well-being (Ellison & Fan, 2008).
Mindfulness and self-compassion are significantly associated with psychological well-being (Hollis-Walker & Colosimo, 2011; Neff, Rude, & Kirkpatrick, 2007; Baer, Lykins, & Peters, 2012). Mindfulness is being aware of the present moment, to one’s own experiences (Brown & Ryan, 2003). According to Neff, self-compassion is being warm and caring at times of hardship, being kind to self, accepting suffering or unpleasant experiences as it is and being non-judgmental. Next about satisfaction with life, this is a subjective judgment about his or her life (Diener, Emmons, Larson, & Griffin, 1985). Life satisfaction is a global evaluation of the person of his or her life.
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Both psychological and spiritual well-being are essential for nursing students to meet their professional demands. Spiritual well-being and psychological well-being are significantly associated (Coleman & Holzemer, 1999). This study is focused on assessing the relationship between spiritual well-being, mindfulness, self-compassion and satisfaction with life among nursing
The article identifies three primary features of self-compassion; self-kindness, common humanity and mindfulness. (Neff, 2003)
Spiritual Care can be very important when it comes to patient-centered care. Rebecca L. Polzer Casarez and Joan C. Engebretson published a study on how spiritual care can cause ethical dilemmas in the health care setting. A Ethical dilemma can be defined in Dee McGonigle and Kathleen Garver Martian’s Nursing Informatics and the foundation of knowledge (2015) as “a difficult choice or issue that requires the application of standards or principles to solve. Issues that challenge us ethically” (McGonigle &Martian, 2015, p. 528). Spiritual Care has been around since the beginning of time, and with the introduction of the medical model of care it now poses a dilemma to health care workers (nurses and physicians), as well as patients. Casarez and Engebretson thoroughly discuss spiritual care within the clinical practice in their article.
“Faith community nursing is community-based and population-focused professional nursing practice with communities of faith to promote whole-person health” (Stanhope, Marcia, & Lancaster, 2012, p. 976). The faith based nurse should be fully aware of the community belief, faith practice, spiritual level within the population, and connect these elements with health and healing. Health, spiritual and healing are considered an important dynamic process in the faith based or religious community. I will discuss the heritage and healing in the faith community. Also, I will discuss some of the benefits of a community nurse forming partnership with the parish nurse and faith based communities. I will explain
Jean Watson looks at holistic nursing as an aspect of viewing each patient individually, and believes that “…the whole is greater than, and different from the, the sum of the parts” (Montgomery-Dossey & Keegan, 2013, p. 122). In further explanation, she feels that health is very much a subjective state that can disrupt one’s self harmony, and that one’s personal environment includes the social, cultural, environmental, and spiritual influences that provide the care needed to restore this harmony. In further, the nurses responsibility in restoring this harmony, involves creating an intimate, caring relationship with the patient to help identify subjective influences that help a patient restore their health and well-being. And, to truly understand and identify with patients, Watson also feels that we as nurses must understand and recognize our own environmental factors that influence our own health and well-being.
Introduction Faith Community Nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that focuses on the intentional care of the spirit as well as on the promotion of holistic health and prevention or minimization of illness within the context of a faith community” (ANA, 2012, as cited in Breisch, Hurley, & Moore, 2013 p. 12). When you think about faith community nursing, the term “wholistic” probably comes to mind. This is not to say that other nursing disciplines do not incorporate holistic care into practice, however, spiritualism can easily be neglected due to sensitivity, barriers, or clear differences between the nurse and patient beliefs. There are four key components of faith community nursing which include spirituality, professionalism, holistic health, and community. With faith community nursing there are no barriers when it comes to spiritualism, because the congregator and nurse often share common beliefs, therefore nursing skills along with spiritual support can be incorporated into care.
Self-kindness and self-compassion also results in an increase in well-being (Neely, Schallert, Mohammed, Roberts, & Chen, 2009). A study by Hoffman, Grossman, & Hinton (2011) supports this by proving that loving-kindness and compassion meditation not only results in increased positive affect, but also results in a decrease in negative affect.
Jude 1:22 says, “And of some have compassion, making a difference.” The service of nursing is an outlet for nurses that enables them to demonstrate the same compassion that Jesus showed to others during his ministry on the earth. The act of nursing is much more than a profession, it is a daily opportunity to instill hope and share Christ’s love with those who are suffering. Sister Callista Roy theorizes that nursing is a service that aids patients in adapting to alterations in their self-concept, role function, psychological needs, and interdependent functions (McEwen and Wills 2011, 172). She believes that fostering positive responses to diverse stimuli helps improve a patient’s quality of life and health (Alligood and Tomey 2010, 338). A nurse’s positive, cheerful attitude and kind spirit can promote patient
The greatest aspect about nursing is that it is never going to be just a job and is even more than a merely profession. Instead, it is a belief system or way of life and not a discipline that can simply be practiced then abandoned to the dictates of a time clock. To simply say that “I love people” or want to “help people get better” does not demonstrate the drive behind this feeling. Articulating my philosophy is not an easy task, to better explain my philosophy of nursing, I am going to use some values that I have learned. These tools truly explain how I feel and what has motivated me to pursue nursing as a career.
There is evidence suggesting that attention to one’s spirituality influences the ability to cope with illness, help in the prevention of illn...
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...locking out the idea. Spirituality also assists in fostering a healthy patient. Many individuals believe in a higher power and therefore we as nurses should encourage that connection when we see it being made. Spiritual connections are a way to give the patient an outlet. They are able to express themselves and rely on something other than physical care and diagnoses. They are about to look to this higher being for encouragement, peace, and healing.
This story is a collection of the extracts of a first person narrative of Mike Sanders, a member of a crew of a spacecraft involved into a space exploration mission. In this story, NASA had been keeping a secret regarding its plans to build a base on Titan in order to maintain political stability in the world after the 2050s. Although the narrative bears personal reflections about this situation, it is supplied with valuable facts regarding the sun and space weather, propulsion and orbital mechanics and planetary characteristics. May 2017
A tenet of Buddhist philosophy for centuries, self-compassion has recently emerged as a promising intervention in Western Psychology with the potential to yield greater life satisfaction, social connectedness, emotional intelligence, and happiness while minimizing anxiety, depression, shame, fear of failure, and burnout (Barnard & Curry, 2011). In Buddhist tradition, a self-compassionate individual responds to his/her personal suffering with wisdom, loving-kindness, and mindfulness that extends beyond the self to all others who are suffering (Reyes, 2011). The Western definition of self-compassion derives mainly from the work
Rex Smith, A. (2009). Nursing and spirituality: What happened to religion. Journal of Christian Nursing, 26(4), 216-222. doi:10.1097/01.CNJ0000361243.35944.69
This paper will include a self-assessment of my own spirituality and how I view spirituality. Peer-reviewed scholarly articles will be included in the essay pertaining to spirituality and my belief. In the following paragraphs will also include the integration of spirituality within social work practice. I believe spirituality does various things for me in my life: it heals me, helps in a time of need, and guides me towards positive aspects of life, which many people believe the spirit does the same for them.