Spirituality

• Spirituality generally refers to the human tendency to seek meaning and purpose in life, inner peace and acceptance, forgiveness and harmony, hope, beauty, and more
• Spirituality involves attributes like love, unifying interconnectedness, altruism, contemplative practice, and religious and spiritual reflection and commitment
• Religion is usually applied to ritualistic practices and organized beliefs that provide guidance for life's questions and challenges
• Agnostic individuals doubt the existence of God or believe it has not been proved, while atheists lack belief in a deity
• Spiritual care is an intuitive, interpersonal, altruistic, and integrative expression that reflects the client's reality and offers spiritual support
• Spiritual disruption, also known as religious struggle or pain, refers to inner chaos when assumptions and beliefs are threatened, leading to negative emotions, concerns, conflicts, doubts, guilt, and worry
• Spirituality is fostered for the physical body, psyche (mind), spirit (soul).
• Spiritual needs include meaning and purpose, restoring relationships, a source of hope and strength, worship, trust, gratefulness, and expressing love
• Spiritual health, also known as spiritual wellness or well-being, results from intentionally seeking to strengthen spiritual muscles through discipline
• Spiritual or religious coping refers to beliefs or ways of thinking that help individuals cope with challenges, with positive coping aiding adaptation to illness and negative coping associated with maladaptation
• Spiritual development results from interactions between nature and nurture, evolving with age and life experience
• Assessment interviews like FICA help nurses ask appropriate questions about faith, implications, community, and address cues related to spiritual/religious preferences, strength, concerns, or distress
• Nurses identify therapeutics to support spiritual health, encourage religious rituals, incorporate spiritual beliefs in decision making, promote hope and peace, and provide spiritual resources when requested
• Holistic care


  Behavior that recognizes the person as a whole
• T/F: Spiritual care should be prescriptive and not descriptive

  F
• Religious practices that are solemn religious observances and  feast throughout the year

  Holy Days
• Worn to pronounce one’s faith, provide spiritual protection and source of comfort or strength

  Sacred Symbols
• authoritative scriptures that   provide guidance for beliefs and   behaviors being observed

  sacred texts
• Provide the meaning of FICA

  Faith

  Implications or inluence

  Community

  Address
• NANDA meaning

  North American Nursing Diagnosis Association
• T/F: Effective Healers are not wounded healers

  F
• T/F:A nurse needs to face their own spiritual needs to be able to identify those the clients
• Therapeutically oriented interventions that take direction from  the client’s religious or spiritual reality

  Spiritual Nursing Care
• Time wherein spiritual development is learning spiritual principles from stories caregivers tell

  Children
• They highly value religious coping strategies like prayer

  Older adult
• Are concerned about living a purposeful life, maintaining loving relationships to avoid social isolation and preparing for a good death

  older adults
• T/F: Nurses should implement this theraputic to support clients- Encourage to recognize positive meanings for health challenges

  T