"This handy pocket guide provides quick access to a variety of information that helps nurses address the spiritual needs of patients. Designed for use in myriad health care settings, and particularly ideal for visiting and parish nurses."--Jacket.
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Spirituality in nursing: standing on holy ground -- Nursing assessment of spiritual needs -- The nurse-patient relationship: a sacred covenant -- Spiritual care of the acutely ill person -- Spiritual care of the chronically ill person -- Spiritual care of the ill child -- Spiritual care of families -- Spiritual care of the older adult -- Spiritual care in death and bereavement -- Parish nursing: healthcare ministry within the church -- Spiritual care in mass casualty disasters -- Prayer in nursing: the spirituality of compassionate caregiving -- Nurses' prayers for the sick -- A Nurse's psalm of reverence for life -- A nurse's way of the cross.