Spirituality in Nursing: From Traditional to New Age, Second Edition - Hardcover

Barnum PhD, Barbara Stevens

9780826191816: Spirituality in Nursing: From Traditional to New Age, Second Edition

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826191819 ISBN 13: 9780826191816

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, 2003

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Delivers a wealth of practical information for fulfilling the spiritual needs of all patients and their families

Written as a practical resource to teach nurses and nursing students, this text explores how to best address spiritual assessment and care. Spirituality―the search for meaning in life and connection to others―remains relevant to all patient interactions, and is an essential component for nurses to integrate into their everyday practice. Using a multicultural and client-centered approach, chapters explore the concept of spirituality and its relationship with religion and health to directly place it into a nursing context. Reflection questions throughout the text encourage readers to analyze their own experiences with spirituality within both professional and personal contexts and affirm how a nurse’s own spirituality can influence her or his practice.

Practical exercises illustrate the importance of spirituality in nursing and provide tools and means to incorporate spirituality into clinical practice. Chapters use a flexible approach that can be adapted to a variety of contexts in nursing education and practice throughout North America and beyond, applicable to self-study, traditional courses, and online programs. The text contains a wealth of pedagogical features, including case studies, discussion questions, a comprehensive bibliography, and an extensive instructor’s manual that provides additional direction for discussion and testing. Thirteen videos, developed by the author and available online, provide the perspectives of nursing and health care professionals, clients, and families to illustrate the main points of the text.

Key Features:

Delivers a wealth of practical tools for incorporating spirituality into nursing
Useful for self-study, on-campus courses, and online programs
Contains a variety of pedagogical features, including discussion questions, reflective exercises, case studies, and an instructor’s manual
Applicable to nursing education and practice throughout North America and beyond
Promotes holistic nursing practice

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From the Publisher:

"Powerful...this book is a pocket guide for visiting a wonderful and rich place, written by someone who knows its value well." --Journal of Nursing Staff Development, from review of previous edition

"A fascinating look at spirituality's growing role in nursing...from the early days of the profession through today." --Nurses' Book Society, from review of previous edition

From the Back Cover:

Thoroughly updated, the new edition of this award-winning book looks at spirituality and nursing from many perspectives: theoretical, historical, religious, psychological, physiological. In this thoughtful exploration of the reemergence of spirituality as an important factor in nursing practice, the author traces nursing's involvement with spirituality from its historical ties with religion to the current interest in New Age and alternative health methods. Nursing theories involving spirituality such as Dossey, Newman, and Watson, are examined, and nursing trends are seen in the larger context of trends in society and other disciplines, such as psychology, physics and philosophy. In this new edition there is more information on techniques and therapies for incorporating spirituality into patient care.

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