Spirituality in Nursing Standing on Holy Ground

by Mary Elizabeth O’Brien (Jones and Bartlett Publishers)

“This…resource explores the relationship between spirituality and the practice of nursing from a variety of perspectives including: nursing assessment of patients’ spiritual needs; the nurse’s role in the provision of spiritual care; the spiritual nature of the nurse– patient relationship; the spiritual history of the nursing profession; and the contemporary interest in spirituality within the nursing profession. The book’s subtitle and theme, Standing on Holy Ground, which describes the nurse’s posture in providing spiritual care, was derived from nursing studies of the spiritual needs of chronically and acutely ill adults and children. Data on patient spiritual needs were also documented in reports of spiritual care provided by practising nurses.”

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