Essays on Spiritual Needs

The concept of spirituality originates from the person’s belief in a higher force that guides or controls his life. Spirituality means different things for different people, and it is very difficult to define it accurately. As Teihard de Chardin would say- ‘We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.’ Spirituality is the basis of a person’s relationship with oneself and with others. It dictates the way a person leads his life and views the world. Most religions in this world believe in the spirit or the soul. Spirit ...

Theory/Author Name and Background

The theory on spiritual well-being in illness is a concept that was explored by Sr. Mary Elizabeth O’Brien. Sr. Mary began her career as a nurse at the Mercy Hospital in Pennsylvania and she worked closely with people with chronic illnesses. Over the course of the history of nursing and specifically on the issues that touch on chronic illnesses and end-of-life care, the aspect of spirituality holds significant influence as to the development of the care plan (O'Brien, 2003). Even in the contemporary healthcare system, nurses are expected to observe the code of ethics within the specifics of ...

Part 1

The realization that illnesses can be cumbersome to contain especially in the event that the patient is approaching the end of their lives is an issue that cannot be understated. In such situations, therefore, there is the need to have in place strategies that will satisfactorily address the problems associated with such life-limiting sickness (Palliative care NSW, 2012). In this direction, therefore, one of the most appropriate ways through which these illnesses can be solved is by employing the palliative care in addressing the problems that such patients and their families may be going through. As such, there is ...

Technological advancements in the last century have resulted in a focal paradigm shift in terms of healthcare from the traditional service-oriented methodologies to the technological care-oriented models. Technology has played a critical role in ensuring that life has been prolonged with the intentions of having patients emerge with desirable outcomes and satisfaction. However, recent advancements on the care provision paradigm have shifted from primarily focusing on science to the incorporation of a healing environment with spirituality (Dossey et al., 2012). The major challenge however that continues to face many patients is whether healthcare settings are in a position to ...

A key factor that healthcare providers have to take into consideration while taking care of the patients is the development of a culturally competent character. It is imperative that care providers to not only have a good understanding about the physiological needs of the patient but also having a better understanding of the ethnic background and the spiritual needs of the patient. These strategies are aimed at ensuring that the concept of holistic care is achieved on the patient being provided with care. Many physicians however lack the wisdom and the expertise required to address patients with these problems. ...

3. Evaluate the Beatitudes in Matthew 5:1-12 and analyze Jesus’ words defining what the critical issue was at stake The Sermon on the Mount is one of the first sermons that Jesus preached to His disciples. It was Jesus’ custom to teach his disciples in the ways that they should walk in and teach to others. Large crowds gathered around Jesus because of the numerous benefits they were likely to get. This included healing, provision, forgiveness and the word. At this juncture, he sought to challenge his followers by revealing to them the characters that would qualify them ...

Virginia Henderson’s Nursing Theory Application to Nursing Practice

The Nursing Need Theory is the product of the imagination of Virginia A. Henderson. The reason for which this theory was developed is to underscore the inimitable focus offered by the nursing practice. The mainstay of the theory is the need for improving the independence of the patients so as to help accelerate the rate at which they outcomes improve while in the hospital. The theory poses a challenge to the nurses by emphasizing the basic needs of human beings and the role played by nurses in order to help the patients meet the basic needs, by that accelerating the ...

An ancient sage once said that a man does not have a more interesting subject than the nature of the human being. This issue is one of the most important and interesting in the entire world philosophy. The man was described by Protagoras as the measure of everything – it was a basic philosophical and methodological principle of all humanitarian sciences of the Old World. Denis Diderot considered a man as the supreme worth, the only founder of all accomplishments in culture, a place from which everything has started and where must come back.

Shakespeare speaks through Hamlet:

“What a piece of work is a man? How noble in reason! How ...

In the modern society, with increased internationalization and globalization concept across the world that has developed human interaction in many aspects and fields such as education, business, employment and religious interactions among others, has contributed to the shift achieved in many business organizations and companies that tries to incorporate elements of spiritual growth and development in their strategies, especially through social corporate responsibilities. In the recent past, it was difficult to find any company that has business interests to include spiritual aspects as part of their strategies in any field such as corporate and marketing for example. This was ...

Leadership in any setting requires discovering the congregational culture that may sound presumptuous at times. For centuries, religious leaders have been confronting the distinctive cultures of congregations. It is evident that immigrant congregations fought over changing the liturgy to a common language (English) and also battles took place during the Irish clergy period. History gives information that a number of anthropologists and ethnographers studied local congregations just like their colleagues would study the remote tribes both in South America and Africa. This paper aims at putting down the ideas learnt from the book of “Lead like Jesus” by Ken Blanchard and ...

Background in Nursing

I obtained my bachelor’s degree in nursing six years ago. Following graduation and licensure, I was employed in a rehabilitation center. Most of the patients I cared for were post-stroke in need of therapy to achieve optimum functioning and the best quality of life possible. Thus, the care I provided consisted of secondary and tertiary prevention. After one year in the center, I was employed in the adult medical-surgical unit of a community hospital caring for patients with the same conditions as that in rehabilitation but in the acute phase of their illness. The hospital’s nursing service is Magnet ...

Concepts of Compassion Fatigue and Warning Signs

Compassion fatigue is defined as a secondary traumatic stress disorder because the person experiencing it does not directly experience a trauma, but an empathic engagement with others results in a traumatic experience that depletes a person mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. The main concepts related to compassion fatigue are fatigue, empathy, and engagement. There are various definitions of fatigue, but all definitions agree that fatigue is a state of impaired performance resulting from caring for other people in times of distress, and it inhibits the caregiver’s ability to cope with stress and guilt (Sabo, 2011). The concept of empathy is critical for understanding ...

I will write about the family, which is a social institution that its success in socializing its members can result to a social change in the context of human resource, economic empowerment, spiritual empowerment and success of the society. Poor parenting creates members of the society who are poorly socialized. In the family set up, there are parents, siblings and relatives. In most cases, the father is the head of the family who liaises with the mother in rearing the children. They have a great responsibility of transmitting values to their children to fit in the society. Family forms the basis ...

In the nursing profession, religious traditions are complex because it is not easy to predict the understanding of family members and patients regarding their application in healthcare context. Healthcare providers ought to be conversant with the information regarding various religious groups. Often, understanding practical items likely to affect Patients or their families in connection to their hospitalization is crucial. Essentially, Buddhist practice aims at developing the mind to the maximum potential that provides for wisdom and compassion. Spiritual welfare under Buddhism involves development of a compassionate mind in order to work with the suffering or the death in an acceptably ...

Abstract Research methods in social sciences have two basic categories; qualitative and quantitative methods. Quantitative research involves asking people's opinions in a structured manner in order to produce hard facts and statistics. In contrast, qualitative research is an explanatory research with the main focus being to gain insights into the helps or problems to develop a hypothesis for potential quantitative research (Cohen et al., 2010). Quantitative research is used to quantify defined variables such as opinions and attitudes, and generalizing results from a larger sample. They use measurable data in formulating facts and unearthing research patterns. Qualitative data collection methods take the ...

Spirituality has been embraced in disciplines such as sociology, philosophy, literature and health care. However, nursing profession has historically neglected the dimension of spirituality regardless of its significance in the healing process. Currently, medical institutions offer courses in spirituality. In addition, many medical centers have incorporated holistic health care and spirituality into their programs. In essence, trends towards embracing spirituality in nursing care include situations where patients demand that their spiritual requirements be addressed. Interestingly, patients desire that their mental, emotional or physical should be accompanied with spiritual concerns. Spiritual care identifies and considers the needs of people ...

Symptoms and Coping Strategies for Caregivers

Patricia Caldoron Grand Canyon University Symptoms and Coping Strategies for Caregivers Compassion fatigue is a state in which an individual feels mentally, emotionally, and spiritually depleted. As medical professionals, nurses often encounter compassion fatigue because of their empathic relationships with patients and their dedication to helping prevent, cure, and manage illness. However, by becoming preoccupied with their patients’ problems and overwhelmed by their responsibilities and workloads in healthcare, nurses will often neglect their own physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Prolonged neglect results in compassion fatigue symptoms that can be categorized into cognitive, emotional, behavioral, spiritual, and somatic ...

Spiritual assessment is a component of Joint Commission standards in recognition that spirituality can influence care, disease management and the delivery of services (Joint Commission, 2005). Feelings of peace, hope and comfort can lead to better health outcomes. For instance, the belief that illness is a trial one must overcome to be a stronger person encourages active participation in care. Supporting the client in achieving greater resilience enhances wellbeing, facilitates faster recovery and increases satisfaction with care. In this sense, spirituality helps find meaning and purpose in illness which enhances psychosocial functioning (Leeuwen, Schep-Akkerman & van Laarhoven, 2013). Thus, it is necessary to ...

Acute Care Nurses spiritual care practices

Research problem The consideration of acute morbidity leading to mortality in patients is a critical professional issue worthy of evidence based practice research within the field of nursing. The challenge of developing an adequate ‘spiritual’ framework within global nursing best practice recommendations is part of the scope of a recent trend in promoting optimal patient outcomes in nurse-patient synergy. In Gallison et al. (2013) Acute Care Nurses’ Spiritual Care Practices, the issue of spirituality as a core competency within nursing ethics is raised. Investigation of acute care nurses spiritual care practices in response to hospitalized patients applies the AACN (American ...

Food retailing

Social, ethical, and environmental factors affect the foods that consumer buy. Intolerance and allergies can affect diets and availing a balnced diet can help navigate these problems. The social responsibilities that food retailers meet include socio-economic changes such as foreign travel, eating patterns and immigration, and lifestyle such as work/life balance, fewer children, greater spending power, and people living loner. Many food retailers are increasingly employing both legal and illegal immigrants in the countries in which they operate. In their part, food retailers are making it their responsibility to ensure that they employ legal immigrants and compensate according to the ...

Abstract

Spirituality involves actions and attitudes based on the belief there is a supreme being and hope even when faced with challenges. The incorporation of spirituality in the provision of nursing care facilitates the improvement the patients’ emotional, social and psychological health. This helps them in coping with the challenges associated with their ailments. Though this is a concept supported by most nurses and patients, it has not been effectively incorporated in nurse training. Its effectiveness relies on the nurses’ ability to understand ad apply this concept. The paper explores a research study carried out to determine nurses’ understanding and view on spiritual ...

Iron sharpens iron is a book by Orlando Saer that highlights on the principles required for a church leader or organization. It is mainly a leadership book that is aimed at guiding and mentoring leaders who aspire to make impacts in their groups whether small or big. The book is based on biblical principals and its title derived from a scripture in the bible. This mainly insists on the fact that people need to empower each other. A church leaders needs to have the ability to learn from the others, from their experiences, whether good or bad and to accept correction. The book ...

Spirituality and End of Life Care

Spiritual care has gained importance in recent years as a pillar in provision of holistic palliative care aimed at alleviating suffering for patients and their family. Spiritual care in the end of life care is not about imposing beliefs and values or converting a terminally ill person but it is about giving hope, strength, meaning, and purpose to the terminally ill person and their family. This paper covers spirituality in end of life care. Spirituality relates to the beliefs and values a person holds on the meaning of life and may be expressed through association with organized religion or secular ethical ...

Introduction

During the 16th century, many changes occurred in England. This was because of the various religious factors that shaped the politics of England. In addition, most of the literature during this period played a major role in shaping English Literature. The Hamlet was one of the ideas that played a significant role in defining religion and literature in England. Religion during the 16 century resulted to conflicts between the Catholics and Protestants. The conflicts that began between the pope and King Henry VII saw England became a Protestant country. The struggle also resulted to changes in sacraments. The Protestants only adapted three ...