What is known
What is not known
Search Terms: While attempting to find journal articles and studies about spiritual distress using CINHAL and Cochrane there were a significant amount of articles that appeared. Some of the key words that I used to narrow it down were spirituality, spiritual distress, qualitative study, and experimental study. Still even with these key words too many articles continued to come up. In order to pick the articles I wanted to read and summarize I decided to go with the rational of only selecting articles that involved palliative care or terminal illness.
Middle Range Theory:
Systemic Review: The Cochrane collaboration provided a systemic review of spiritual and religious interventions.
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Because of this more organizations are beginning to take notice and take a position on what they think about spirituality and spiritual distress. One of those organizations is the Hospice and Palliative Nurse Association (HPNA). They begin by defining spiritual distress as, “an individual’s perception of hurt or suffering associated with that part of his or her person that seeks to transcend the realm of the material.” Their position on the topic is that every nurse should take into consideration a patients’ spirituality and the possibility of spiritual distress into account when caring for patients who are in hospice or receiving palliative care (??????).
Qualitative study:
The journal of Mental Health, Religion & Culture ran a qualitative study on assessing patients for spiritual distress. The main goal of this study was to look at the difficulties that the doctors, nurses, and other …show more content…
There were 214 patients chosen selected at random, but some had not met the guidelines of the patient such as for being too young, they were not being able to complete the survey, they were either going to die or be discharged within 24 hours, or they may have been in a coma. These are just an example of a few of the guidelines set. After going through with the guidelines ninety eight of the patients were dismissed from the study. Following the dismissal there were fifty two other patients who did not want to volunteer in the study, leaving only sixty four valid and willing
What is not known
Search Terms: While attempting to find journal articles and studies about spiritual distress using CINHAL and Cochrane there were a significant amount of articles that appeared. Some of the key words that I used to narrow it down were spirituality, spiritual distress, qualitative study, and experimental study. Still even with these key words too many articles continued to come up. In order to pick the articles I wanted to read and summarize I decided to go with the rational of only selecting articles that involved palliative care or terminal illness.
Middle Range Theory:
Systemic Review: The Cochrane collaboration provided a systemic review of spiritual and religious interventions.
Related Organizations: …show more content…
Because of this more organizations are beginning to take notice and take a position on what they think about spirituality and spiritual distress. One of those organizations is the Hospice and Palliative Nurse Association (HPNA). They begin by defining spiritual distress as, “an individual’s perception of hurt or suffering associated with that part of his or her person that seeks to transcend the realm of the material.” Their position on the topic is that every nurse should take into consideration a patients’ spirituality and the possibility of spiritual distress into account when caring for patients who are in hospice or receiving palliative care (??????).
Qualitative study:
The journal of Mental Health, Religion & Culture ran a qualitative study on assessing patients for spiritual distress. The main goal of this study was to look at the difficulties that the doctors, nurses, and other …show more content…
There were 214 patients chosen selected at random, but some had not met the guidelines of the patient such as for being too young, they were not being able to complete the survey, they were either going to die or be discharged within 24 hours, or they may have been in a coma. These are just an example of a few of the guidelines set. After going through with the guidelines ninety eight of the patients were dismissed from the study. Following the dismissal there were fifty two other patients who did not want to volunteer in the study, leaving only sixty four valid and willing