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It’s graduation day and studying for the time being appears to have come to a close. Speeches and valedictories are done. Dinners are over. Caps are thrown. Nursing students can be seen leaving graduation as they head out onto Robie Street. For some, their first shifts will be within hours. Some will be assigned to the ER. Other students from the various faculties are seen pouring out onto the street. Diplomas held high, when the roaring sound of the crash is heard. Vehicles entangled, medical attendants are on scene within minutes. Atif Aboud, his brother Kashif and Mary Russel arrive in the ER within minutes of the accident. None are known to the nurses in attendance. Atif and his brother are Muslim. Mary, from Colorado is Buddhist. The question posed by Barbara Pesuit in her article “There be dragons: effects of unexplored religion on nurses’ competence in spiritual care” is to what extent a generalized anxiety …show more content…
The use of the term is meant to have an appropriate parallel with fear. “There be dragons” has been used to indicate fear of the unknown on ancient maps, and fear, as it relates to nursing competence in religion and spiritual care is ever growing, as for three decades nurses and nursing theorists have yet to come up with a system that best suits the provider and the patient. However, this does not stop Ms. Pesuit from using her position the Canada Research Chair for health ethics and diversity and her credentials to advocate for education and change. The author not only offers up one of the reasons why nurses don’t feel competent in religion and spiritual care, by saying the reasons for this is a theory gap in religious and spiritual teaching but also introduces the idea of furthering education for nurses to prepare their competence in this topic, something that will only serve to benefit the valued care of Atif, Kashif, and
It’s graduation day and studying for the time being appears to have come to a close. Speeches and valedictories are done. Dinners are over. Caps are thrown. Nursing students can be seen leaving graduation as they head out onto Robie Street. For some, their first shifts will be within hours. Some will be assigned to the ER. Other students from the various faculties are seen pouring out onto the street. Diplomas held high, when the roaring sound of the crash is heard. Vehicles entangled, medical attendants are on scene within minutes. Atif Aboud, his brother Kashif and Mary Russel arrive in the ER within minutes of the accident. None are known to the nurses in attendance. Atif and his brother are Muslim. Mary, from Colorado is Buddhist. The question posed by Barbara Pesuit in her article “There be dragons: effects of unexplored religion on nurses’ competence in spiritual care” is to what extent a generalized anxiety …show more content…
The use of the term is meant to have an appropriate parallel with fear. “There be dragons” has been used to indicate fear of the unknown on ancient maps, and fear, as it relates to nursing competence in religion and spiritual care is ever growing, as for three decades nurses and nursing theorists have yet to come up with a system that best suits the provider and the patient. However, this does not stop Ms. Pesuit from using her position the Canada Research Chair for health ethics and diversity and her credentials to advocate for education and change. The author not only offers up one of the reasons why nurses don’t feel competent in religion and spiritual care, by saying the reasons for this is a theory gap in religious and spiritual teaching but also introduces the idea of furthering education for nurses to prepare their competence in this topic, something that will only serve to benefit the valued care of Atif, Kashif, and