Spiritual assessment is the process by which health care providers, interviewing a patient to understand their spiritual needs and resources. Spiritual assessment tools have an important role in identifying patient’s spiritual needs. Health care professionals embrace and implement spiritual assessment tools to understand patient’s spiritual needs as well these tools facilitate documentations and assists in treatment outcome evaluation (Saguil & Phelps, 2012, p. 1). The author of this paper selected two different spiritual assessment tools for the analysis are FICA and FACT.
Description of Spiritual Tools FICA was developed by Dr. Puchalski and his fellow physicians to help health care professionals to address spiritual issues while FACT …show more content…
166). However, unfortunately FICA tool does not collect all the information’s relevant to a spiritual assessment as well tool does not provide an instrument for evaluating the collected information’s. So naturally tool cannot lead directly into the plan of care .While in Four FACTs , tool provides a complete spiritual assessment through detailed assessment of the strength and weakness of a person and find out about how a patient 's spirituality assist or hampers their coping to stress situation. Also, FACT has a treatment section provides a plan of care section .FACTs provide a more holistic approach and perspective from there it is easy to address the patient 's spiritual wellbeing (Larocca-Pitts, 2007). In crisis situation like sudden death provider focus on the ACT portions such as available, accessible and ,comfort and that is the first line of treatment during those situations. Even though these tools go beyond the simple faith focused physician developed tool FICA, the use of the FACT tools take a lot of time and practice. Now a day’s lack of time is one of the main issues in the health industry, on behalf of lack of time …show more content…
Before moving to the sensitive topics professional should make trusting relationship with patients (Bickley & Szilagyi, 2013, Chapter 3). Listening to patients and their stories and giving attention to their feelings and emotions assist to develop a trusting relationship. Most of the time a skill full interviewer could be able to recognize the spiritual themes from patient stories instead of asking direct questions .in order to gain that skill, professionals need training and competency in spiritual assessment. Sometimes providing a compassionate, safe environment will be enough for patients to express their concerns. The health professional could incorporate available resources for the preventative and adjuvant care of their patients. Health professional’s needs to maintain patient centered approach and should have self-awareness about their own beliefs and values during the spiritual
Description of Spiritual Tools FICA was developed by Dr. Puchalski and his fellow physicians to help health care professionals to address spiritual issues while FACT …show more content…
166). However, unfortunately FICA tool does not collect all the information’s relevant to a spiritual assessment as well tool does not provide an instrument for evaluating the collected information’s. So naturally tool cannot lead directly into the plan of care .While in Four FACTs , tool provides a complete spiritual assessment through detailed assessment of the strength and weakness of a person and find out about how a patient 's spirituality assist or hampers their coping to stress situation. Also, FACT has a treatment section provides a plan of care section .FACTs provide a more holistic approach and perspective from there it is easy to address the patient 's spiritual wellbeing (Larocca-Pitts, 2007). In crisis situation like sudden death provider focus on the ACT portions such as available, accessible and ,comfort and that is the first line of treatment during those situations. Even though these tools go beyond the simple faith focused physician developed tool FICA, the use of the FACT tools take a lot of time and practice. Now a day’s lack of time is one of the main issues in the health industry, on behalf of lack of time …show more content…
Before moving to the sensitive topics professional should make trusting relationship with patients (Bickley & Szilagyi, 2013, Chapter 3). Listening to patients and their stories and giving attention to their feelings and emotions assist to develop a trusting relationship. Most of the time a skill full interviewer could be able to recognize the spiritual themes from patient stories instead of asking direct questions .in order to gain that skill, professionals need training and competency in spiritual assessment. Sometimes providing a compassionate, safe environment will be enough for patients to express their concerns. The health professional could incorporate available resources for the preventative and adjuvant care of their patients. Health professional’s needs to maintain patient centered approach and should have self-awareness about their own beliefs and values during the spiritual