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Faith Flags

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Presencing

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Should not be prescriptive (i.e., the following of a set guideline for intervening to resolve a client’s spiritual problem). Instead it should be descriptive of ways nurses can offer spiritual support.

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Spiritual Care

(p. 955)

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Refers to “a disturbance in the belief or value system that provides strength, hope, and meaning to life.”

  • Expresses lack of hope, meaning of life, inadequate acceptance of self
  • Expresses feeling abandoned or anger toward power greater than self
  • Refuse interaction with significant others
  • Exhibits sudden changes in spiritual practices
  • Requests (or refused) to interact with a spiritual leader
  • Has no interest in nature or in reading spiritual literature.
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Spiritual Distress

(p. 955)

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Results when individuals intentionally seek to strengthen their spiritual muscles, as it were, through various spiritual disciplines (e.g., prayer, meditation, service, fellowship with similar believers, learning from a spiritual mentor, worship, study, fasting)

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Spiritual Health

  • opposite of spiritual distress*
  • does not occur by chance, but by choice*
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Spiritual History

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Spiritual Need