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24 Cards in this Set
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Holistic
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Enables the nature to establish a helping role and a healing relationship
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Influences on Healthcare
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Enhancing beliefs
Hindering beliefs Holy Days Sacred Writings Sacred Symbols Prayer & Meditation Nutritional beliefs Beliefs related to dress |
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Influence of Healthcare
(Prayer & Meditation) |
Prayer - communication to God, Allag, Jehovah, or supreme being in word or thought
Meditation - Act of focusing ones thought or engaging in self reflection or contemplation |
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What can you ask to find out more about spititual beliefs?
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What is your personal source of strength and hope?
Tell me how you feel about changes caused by this illness? Any particular religious practices important to you? What way can I help you carry out your faith? |
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Influences on Healthcare
(Are Enhancing Beliefs) |
Spiritual health will provide a balance for their healthcare needs. Client shows compassion, gratitude, humor, capacity for unconditional love
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Influences of Healthcare
(Hindering Beliefs) |
Lowers self esteem by guilty feelings
example: illness as a punishment, selfcaused, prohibition against blood use, trust in miraculous cures, fate as unchangeable |
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Holy Days
(IMPORTANT TO KNOW) |
a day set aside for special religious observances
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Spiritual Health
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Caring for the whole person
Accepting of beliefs and experiences Helping with issues surrounding meaning and hope |
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Sacred Symbols
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Jewelry, medals, amulets, icons, totems, or body ornamentation that carry religous or spitiual significance
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Sacred Writings
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the thought or word of the supreme being and written by his apoointed prophets or diciples
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Spiritual Assessment
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Determine beliefs, values, and concept of God
Determine clients source of hope and strength Determine religious practices Determine perception of relationships between spiritual beliefs and health Determine how client feels about life satisfaction Determine clients culture Determine clients fellowship and community afiliation Determine clients rituals |
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Spiritual Distress
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"Impaired ability to experience and integrate meaning and purpose in life through connectedness with self, others, art, music, literature, nature, and/or a power greater than oneself
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Religion
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Organized system of worship
different than spirituality "State of Being" |
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Hope
"IMPORTANT TO KNOW" (read over well) |
Spirituality and faith
Attitude of something to live for and look forward to Can recognize in patients abscence of hope leads to dispair |
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Faith
(IMPORTANT TO KNOW) |
Being part of definition of spitiuality
A culture or insititution - a religion, relationship with a divinity, higher power, authority, or spirit that incorporates reasoning faith (belief) and trusting faith (action) |
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Atheist
(IMPORTANT TO KNOW) |
Individuals who do not believe in the existence of God
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Agnostic
(IMPORTANT TO KNOW) |
Individuals who believe that there is no ultimate reality
Doubts existence of God or Supreme being, existence has not been proven |
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Spiritual Well-Being
(IMPORTANT TO KNOW) |
the concept is often described as having two dimensions, vertical dimension between person and God, and horizontal dimension as the relationships and connections people have with others
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Spiritiuality
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an awareness of one's inner self and sense of connection to a higher being, nature, or to some purpose greater than oneself. Unknown aspects of life
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What can you say to encourage client in pursuing spiritual need?
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Is God important to you right now?
Have you found your prayers to be helpful now? Has your current illness affected your spiritual experiences? |
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B: belief system
E: Ethics or values L: Lifestyle I: Involvement in spiritual community E: education F: Future events Spirituality tool for Well-being! |
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Islam
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Followers called muslims
The religious duties are summed up in 5 pillars; creed, prayer, Almsgiving, fasting, a pilgrimage to mecca once in life Birth/Baptism: after birth, a member of family must recite a prayer into babys ear Blood transfussions: acceptable Death - Face client toward mecca. Do not touch the body, use disposable gloves Diet - no pork Fasting - During month of Ramadan from sunrise to sunset Organ transplant - not acceptable Post-mortem - Not acceptable Female must be treated by female staff only Water for washing must be in the same room |
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Hinduism
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Blood transfusions: acceptable
Death - distress if touched by nonhindu (wear disposable gloves, crementation prefered, prefer to die at home) Fasting: eat only "pure foods" Organ transplant: acceptable Pot-mortem: not acceptable (special considerations: female must be treated by female staff only) Diet: do not eat beef, strict vegetarrians A person seen as being on a spiritual journey to discover the self or consciousness. Hindu religious practices vary a great deal, depending on areas of orgin |
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Jehovah's Witnesses
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Organ transplant: not acceptable
Post-mortem: sometimes acceptable (special circumstances: do not celebrate birthdays or christmas, healing prayer services may be requested) Birth/Baptism - no infant baptism Blood transfussion 0 not acceptable, morally wrong Death - no special rituals Diet - food containing blood or blood products not acceptable Try to live their lives according to the commands of God as written in the old and new testaments. Regard Jesus Christ as the son of God, but not in the sense of being equal with God or one with God |
