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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Spiritual needs"”.
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Nurses' Responses to Patients' Spiritual Needs
… had as its objective the identification of the spiritual needs of patients. Three aspects of the study were: (1) to identify the spiritual needs students of nursing recognized during the care of their patients; (2) to discover the type of behavior patients manifested which enabled the students …
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Spiritual needs of sexual assault survivors
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-90).
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Discomfort in Addressing Spiritual Needs: A Hospital-Wide Exploration into the Hole in Holistic Care
… care, which is defined as bio-psycho-socio-spiritual care. However, many nurses do not feel comfortable with the “spiritual” element of care and are uncertain about their professional role in the assessment and delivery of spiritual care. Discomfort and avoidance of attending to the …
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Palliative care : needs and expectations in a HIV Care Centre
… demographics and the physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs and expectations for the palliative care of a homeless community in an HIV Care Centre, located in the inner city of Johannesburg.
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Nurses' perceptions of patients' needs post coronary artery bypass grafting
… need for an altered lifestyle. Identifying the needs of patients following an acute cardiac event is an essential step in the development of nursing interventions (Moser et al 1993) to facilitate patients' bio-psycho-social and spiritual adaptation. Thus, the needs of patients who experience …
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Spiritual journeys in the classroom: elementary public school teachers' perspectives /
… elementary school teachers ' perceptions of spirituality and its implications for classroom practice. A generic qualitative study was conducted where each teacher shared her experiences and perceptions in one audiotaped semistructured interview. Transcripts were generated and coded for themes …
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Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Wikoff Spiritual Focus Questionnaire
<p>Spirituality is a concept that has been a part of nursing since nursing began. In every culture spirituality is a component of healing. However, in the United States, nurses seldom assess the concept of spirituality and the patient's spiritual needs are often not addressed. Wikoff Spiritual …
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Improving Pre-Transplant Experiences for ICU Patients on the Heart Transplant Registry
… to address physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs prior to transplant. A pre-transplant toolkit would assist to address these needs and may improve outcomes for heart transplant patients. Project Aims: (1) Elicit post-transplant patients’ perspectives about pre-transplant …
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A wall between the sacred and the profane
… to the traditions of the Church as well as the spiritual needs of the surrounding community.
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The Investigating Meaning/Purpose and Connectedness (IMPACT) Study: A Comparative Case Study of Parents of Adult Children with Schizophrenia
… with members who live with schizophrenia, spirituality can be a source of support and help caregivers manage stress. While holistic nursing care of patients and families with schizophrenia includes addressing spiritual needs, spirituality is often not incorporated into nursing care due to a …
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Spiritual Exploration In The Prenatal Genetic Counseling Session
<p>Religion and spirituality are important components of many individuals’ lives, and spiritual needs may present among persons receiving medical care. Spirituality has been demonstrated to be significant in the coping of women experiencing pregnancy complications (Breen et al. 2006; Price et al. …
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A needs assessment of third culture children and the administrative implications for an orientation program
… of the cognitive, social, emotional, and spiritual needs of young missionary children by rating sixteen goals for a pre-departure orientation on the variables of importance, responsibility and attainability. Mean scores of each of the variables were used to compute a criticality quotient, …
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Helping at the End-of-Life: A Phenomenological Study on the Experience of Pediatric Palliative Counselors
… the psychosocial, emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs of children with life-limiting illnesses and their families. The experience of pediatric palliative counselors is largely understudied, which means there is no awareness as to how these counselors can be better supported to protect …
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“But how could we sing a song of the Lord in a foreign land?” An ESL/ESP class for Catholic immigrants
… to be more attentive to their students’ spiritual needs, and Catholics conducting outreach efforts, including ESL classes, are encouraged to specialize their ESL classes to assist students in ways other ESL programs cannot.</p>
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The Development of a New Model for Assessing African-American Spirituality in Palliative Care
… can result.</p> <p>Recognizing patient spirituality and addressing their spiritual needs can help the patient, family or surrogate decision-maker come to terms with, if not make sense of, their life-threatening illness and eventual mortality. This may be especially salient for …
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Belief systems and patient care: An examination of the relationship between nurse religiosity and end-of-life care
… nurses’ responsibility to support patients’ spiritual needs. A plethora of literature explores patient religiosity and its effect on their approach and/or response to health care issues. Interestingly, there is little literature that explores the influence that healthcare providers’ …
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The Emotional And Spiritual Wellbeing Of Hospice Patients In Botswana And Sources Of Distress For Their Caregivers
… the quality of life and the emotional and spiritual wellbeing of people at the end of life and the sources of distress for their primary caregivers in Gaborone, Botswana, in order to inform current and limited hospice resources and services. Design: This study employed a qualitative design. …
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The Practice and Meaning of Communitarian Spirituality in the Focolare Movement
… explore how individuals come to embrace the FM spirituality as radical, making the spiritually meaningful and plausible for social change through a communitarian lifestyle that affects their everyday life. Within the sociological tradition of studying religion and social movements, this study …
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Improving Nurses' Proficiency and Confidence in the Use of Aromatherapy for Patients in the Hospice Setting
… care to address the physical, emotional and spiritual needs that are associated with a terminal illness, the focus of this project is to improve the hospice nurses’ knowledge of and confidence in the use of aromatherapy for symptom management. There is recognition within the field of …
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Patient-Reported Outcomes Screening for Improved Patient Wellness: A Cancer Center Initiative
… unmet physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs. The Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI) requires patients to be screened for emotional wellbeing and pain by their second oncology visit. This project details one cancer center’s quality improvement initiative to (a) …
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