Nursing The Spirit

This book offers an insightful model for spiritual care nursing. The new edition of Spirituality in Nursing provides students with priceless information from a variety of perspectives while also examining spirituality and its connection to the filed of nursing. The text explores the spiritual dimension of nursing from the following perspectives: 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; Contemporary interest in spirituality within the nursing profession. This updated Third Edition has been expanded to include new chapters on: Spiritual well-being; Quality of life at end of life; and Stories from patients. - Publisher.