Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tuck, Inez
• Wallace, Debra
• Pullen, Lisa

Titel

Spirituality and Spiritual Care Provided by Parish Nurses

Ist Teil von

• Western journal of nursing research, 2001-08, Vol.23 (5), p.441-453

Ort / Verlag

Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The high level of religious participation in the United States provides a venue for parish nursing, a holistic nursing specialty that emphasizes the relationship between spirituality and health. This descriptive study measured two aspects of spirituality (spiritual perspective and spiritual well-being) in a national sample of parish nurses and described variables related to their practice. Furthermore, it qualitatively examined the provision of spiritual care to clients in this parish nurse sample. Parish nurses scored high in spiritual perspective and spiritual well-being and reported an emphasis on health promotion and education in their activities. Three views of spiritual interventions (ideal, general, and specific) were reported. Types of spiritual interventions typically fell into one of four categories: religious, interactional, relational, and professional.