...SPRITUALITY NEED ASSESMENT Spirituality Need Assessment Elsamma Philip Grand Canyon University HLT- 310 V Verree Laughlin June 10, 2012 Spirituality Need Assessment Introduction Numerous studies conducted showed positive correlation between spirituality and treatment outcomes (Oakley, P.T., D.H.Sc, Katz, Sauer, Dent, & Millar, 2010). Therefore spiritual needs of the patient must be meet by the healthcare professional. The spiritual needs of the patient can be analyzed and recognized in the process of spiritual assessment. The spiritual assessment consists of a survey/ questionnaire that helps the caregiver get information on the patients spiritual demands. The spiritual assessment allows the healthcare provider to meet the spiritual demands of the patient and their family. This enables the patient to receive holistic treatment which includes recognizing and responding to the physical, psychological, spiritual and emotional needs of the patient (Bruce, 2007). According to the joint commission anyone who is trained on the value of spiritual assessment and tools such as physicians, therapists, nurses, and clinical pastoral staff can assess the patient’s spirituality (Evaluating your Spiritual Assessment Process, 2005). The Joint Commission has also provided some guidelines to create a spiritual assessment that would meet the spiritual demands of the patient. Using these guidelines, a spiritual assessment is made to assess the spiritual needs...
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...Wk 1 DQ 2 due Friday:Select a story from the Bible (be sure to cite which version of the Bible you are using and passages) that addresses an aspect of healing. Summarize the passage and discuss the components of healing that took place. What led you to believe that healing took place? Was it a question of faith or something physical that took place? Explain your answer. Mattew 9: 27 – 31; Jesus Heals two blind men. And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, "Have mercy on us, Son of David." When he entered the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" They said to him, "Yes, Lord." Then he touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith be it done to you." And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them, "See that no one knows it." But they went away and spread his fame throughout that entire district. The central core of the story, the healing itself, is the significant part, because there we have the words of Jesus about their faith. I believe that faith opens the way for us to see the power of God’s kingdom and to experience his healing presence in our lives. Faith is a gift freely given by God to help us know God personally, to understand his truth, and to live in the power of his love. For faith to be effective it must be linked with trust and obedience; an active submission to God and a willingness to do whatever he commands. When the two blind men...
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...Spiritual Needs Assessment Grand Canyon University: HLT-310V Chelsea Cameron June 15, 2014 Spirituality Assessment Tool 1. What is your faith or belief? a. Christianity 2. Do you consider yourself to be spiritual or religious? If so, why? a. Yes, because I have faith in a higher being and I believe that higher being is in control. And I believe that we are all her as a result of god’s creation. 3. Are you apart of any religious communities? a. I’m a member of my church, Sandia Presbyterian. 4. Is your religion/spirituality important in your life? a. Yes because god is in control. 5. What type of influences does your spirituality have on the way you care for yourself? a. The bible says that your body is god’s temple, and we’re created in the image of god. I try my best to follow a healthy diet, good hygiene and pray daily. 6. How would you prefer for me, as your nurse, to handle issues during your care? a. Understand my wants that I have made obvious in my written paper work (i.e. Do not put me on the machine if I have been declared brain dead). Follow the golden rule, “treat me the way you want to be treated”. Keep my family updated on how I’m doing and don’t hold back if you know that my prognosis is not good. Be honest, treat me with respect and allow me quiet time to pray. Spiritual Needs Assessment This paper will discuss a spiritual assessment tool created by a nurse working on a stroke unit. A summary of the assessment made will be discussed along with...
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...Running head: SPIRITUAL NEEDS ASSESSMENT Spiritual Needs Assessment Daljit Kumari Spirituality in Health Care Home Grand Canyon University HLT- 310V February 23rd, 2014 This essays purpose is to finalize the spiritual needs assessment of a person that is to be selected to regulate his/her spiritual needs. Religion as well as spirituality do not contain the same definition, although they have been utilized regarding many opportunities. “The primary purpose of a spiritual assessment is to identify a need in the patient and formulate a care plan (Power, 2006, p. 17)”. This assessment plays an essential role within the patient’s care and assessment. The experience of health care is also something that can become as progressing or positive as for a patient as they can give and receive spiritual support that is satisfactory. This assists in promoting the health of a patient, preventing sickness or illness for example anxiety or depression, and to also assist patients to deal with difficulties in times during sickness. A spiritual assessment tool to gain a guide assistance for the health care professionals to cope and embrace the patient’s spiritual needs will be discussed in this paper by the author. According to “(Joint Commission, 2005), the main purpose of the spiritual assessment should be to identify the patient’s needs, hopes, resources, and possible outcomes regarding spirituality (p. 6)”. The best holistic...
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...Spiritual Assessment NUR 645E Grand Canyon University April 3, 2013 Abstract Evidence has linked a strong relationship between spirituality and medicine. There is a positive correlation between a patient’s spirituality or religious commitment and health outcomes. A spiritual assessment as a part of a health assessment is a practical step to incorporating patient’s spiritual needs into practice. The FICA Tool and HOPE Questions provide serve to assist clinicians in the spiritual assessment process. By examining the research done using these tools, it has been determined that the FICA Tool is easy to use and provides basic data on a patient’s spirituality. The FICA tool is both reliable and valid. The HOPE Questions are easy to use and provides details on a wide range of aspects related to multicultural beliefs. The HOPE Questions is not supported by research thereby it is not valid or reliable. Key Words: spiritual assessment, FICA Spiritual Assessment Tool, HOPE Questions Spiritual Assessment Taking patients spiritual needs into account is an integral component of providing holistic care. Research has linked positive health outcomes with patients whose spiritual needs have been addressed. However, spirituality is not always considered an important part of a patient’s well-being; leading to spiritual assessments not being completed. To aid in addressing a patients spiritual needs, there are spiritual assessment tools available. Some of the tools available...
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...SPIRITUAL ASSESSMENT EVALUATION Spiritual Assessment Evaluation Steven Atilano Grand Canyon University August 18, 2012 Spiritual Assessment Evaluation Spirituality has been part of nursing from its’ infancy. Initially, nursing care of the sick, was provided by monks as part of a religious order. Florence Nightingale who is credited with revolutionizing modern nursing was said to have chose the profession, because God called her to serve (Nursing-Theory.org, n.d.). Nightingale was the first to revolutionize this thought process, as she realized that healing was holistic, and even involved the patient’s environment. As a result, our profession now recognizes the need to treat the patient holistically, to include the patient’s spirituality. Two examples of assessment tools that assess spirituality are the HOPE assessment tool and the FICA spiritual assessment tool. The HOPE assessment tool uses the acronym to remember all elements of the assessment. H stands for hope, O stands for the patient’s organized religion. P stands for personal spirituality, and E stands for end of life decisions (LaRocca-Pitts, 2009). The FICA spiritual tool acronym stands for Faith or belief, Importance of the patient’s spirituality, their individual spiritual community, and Addressing spirituality (Borneman, Ferrell, & Puchalski, 2010). The author believes that patient spirituality should be assessed immediately in order to ensure holistic care, so a new spiritual assessment tool called...
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...Spirituality in Counseling Integrating Religion and Spirituality In Counseling Anntoni Leonard University of the Cumberlands COUN 636 Abstract Religion and spirituality are arguably among the most important factors which structure human experience, beliefs, values and behavior. Religion and spirituality are clearly important to most Americans; however, most counselors have little or no training in dealing with religious and spiritual issues. Since the mid-1990’s, the integration of spirituality and religion into therapeutic sessions has generated much interest as an area that needs to be addressed with regards to diversity in clients. This paper will address the inclusion of religion and spirituality in client’s session and counselor’s attitudes toward a client’s faith based on the assumption that the client’s faith and the counselor’s attitude can have significant impact on the outcome of the treatment of the client. A counselor’s willingness to attend to faith as a means of growth can build rapport and lessen potential resistance with clients who are religious (Worthington, 1989). Spirituality in Counseling: Integrating Religion and Spirituality Spirituality has become increasingly important in counseling and prayer has become the spiritual intervention of choice for Christian counselors, as well as secular counselors. The controversial nature of including prayer in counseling requires much consideration on the grounds of ethical boundaries. Majority of mental health...
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...A Spirituality Assessment Sanda Stanhope Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care HLT 310V Patricia Mullen February 02, 2011 A Spirituality Assessment Spirituality is an imperative component in a patient’s assessment and care that can enhance the quality of life. Acknowledging and supporting a patients’ spirituality can make their health care involvements more encouraging in promoting health, reducing depression, it aids in patients coping with challenging illnesses, and increases the quality of life. Patients do want their health care providers to discuss their spirituality with them. A study found that 40% of patients felt that physicians should discuss pertinent religious issues with their patients, however only 11% of physicians frequently or always did (Maugans, 1991). Assessment Participant One has always worked with the adult population, so to enhance the experience; a fifteen year old female, which has been brought up in the Baptist faith was given a spiritual assessment. Summary of Assessment Findings As with most youth, life consists of the here and now with a philosophy regarding life to be “live life to the fullest without breaking rules”. While there is a true belief in God, family and peers would be sought for support and comfort. Prayer is something best done with family and a familiar pastor, but would be too prickly with a hospital provided clergy. Suffering means to have physical and emotional pain. Instances of emotional were explained...
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...Spiritual Needs Assessment According to Potter and Perry (2009), one’s awareness of inner self and having a sense of connection to a higher being is the meaning of spirituality. Spirituality is a force that provides a person with intrinsic energy that promotes and enhances their well-being. It also helps a person achieve the balance needed to cultivate a positive life and to cope with everyday life stressors (Potter & Perry, 2009). Florence Nightingale believed that spirituality within a healing hospital environment, and caring for an individual’s spiritual needs is just as important as caring for their physical needs (Potter & Perry, 2009). Spiritual assessment is defined as the process from which health care providers identify a patient’s spiritual needs related to their mental health care (Spiritual Competency Resource Center, n.d.). In 2005, as evidence-based research demonstrated a correlation between supporting a patient’s spirituality with their health and their ability to cope with an illness, The Joint Commission (TJC) announced the requirement for health care organizations to include “a spiritual assessment as part of the overall assessment of a patient to determine how the patient’s spiritual outlook can affect his or her care, treatment, and services.” (p. 1). Patients deserve the best holistic care from health care providers, and it is through a spiritual assessment upon admission that providers will be guided to providing such care. Introduction And Spiritual...
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...Spiritual Needs Assessment The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the spiritual needs of a chosen person by completing a spiritual assessment. In doing so, a greater knowledge of their beliefs was gained and things that can be done to improve outcomes were determined. Spirituality and religion are often thought to be the same and are often interchangeable. Religion is a belief system with rituals and practices that one adheres to in searching for a higher being. Spirituality is not a religion that holds us to a set of rules or traditions; It is not attainted through human worthiness; It is about a relationship that God offers us, an eternal life with him (All About Spirituality, 2012). The majority of patients that nurses care for have religious beliefs and traditions when it comes to their health, which in turn leads to spiritual needs. Their beliefs may affect the way they want to be cared for and may also hinder the care needed, such as treatments, procedures and medications. Spirituality is a way that we all search for meaning within and through that comes peace, hope, comfort and love. When assessing ones spirituality, you are also finding out their strengths and ways in which they cope. Listening, silence and touch are important aspects of spirituality, as these demonstrate caring, sense of worth and can relieve stress (Ojnik, 2009). For this paper my father-in-law (J.C.) was interviewed and five questions were asked. J.C. is 65 years old, is...
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...Spiritual Needs Assessment In this World, there are people comes from different cultures who follows different values and beliefs. Mostly all people knows that God is the greatest importance of the whole of making the world, and God is the greatest importance of a person or thing that is influenced or controlled by something and God is the greatest importance of every person. Spirituality in some person is both vision of life and a way of living. Spirituality gives a control or management not only to our opinion, but also to our own ability to make choices quickly and confidently in actions. Spirituality is not something we at some later time stop doing, like a work or a task. In future, we deal with it, we grow with it and improve with it till the day we stop living. Like the Biblical idea or we see that spirituality is always changing and never ending. The goal is natural increase in size in an connection with God. I interviewed Mrs. Samuel, 78year old, female, her religion is Christian, Pentecost. Mrs. Samuel says that she is a Christian believer, she is a pilgrim in this world and Holy Spirit is preparing a home to get into the eternity. Mrs. Samuel responded that “Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God and everything submit to God”. (John 14:1). She stated that she maintains her spiritual beliefs with daily prayer, fasting, reading Bible and attend the prayer meetings in the church every Sunday. Mrs. Samuel answers to me that the foundation her motivation in...
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...Running head: SPIRITUAL NEEDS ASSESSMENT Module 3: Spiritual Needs Assessment Pamela Hartwell-Cooper Grand Canyon University: HLT 310V Spirituality in Health Care May 6, 2012 Spiritual Needs Assessment The purpose of this paper is to complete an assessment of a chosen individual that will be used to determine their spiritual needs. Spirituality and religion are terms that are many times used interchangeably, but in reality they do not necessarily always have the same meaning. One can be spiritual without being religious and vice versa. According to Webster’s Dictionary, religion is defined as: the service and worship of God or the supernatural or a commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance, a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices (merriam-webster.com). Spirituality is defined as: the quality or state of being concerned with religion or religious matters: the quality or state of being spiritual. Spiritual is defined as: things that are concerned with, or affecting the soul (merriam-webster.com). Spirituality can also be defined as our inner belief system. That which helps individuals search for the meaning and purpose of life, and it helps them experience hope, love, inner peace, comfort, and support (professionalchaplains.org). Religion refers to a belief system to which an individual...
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...Spiritual Needs Assessment Crystal Fore Grand Canyon University: HLT 310v – Spirituality in Health Care July 20, 2014 Spiritual Needs Assessment In health care, nurses and other professionals are involved in the medical care of patients, which while nurses and others have dealt with the physical ailments of patients, the emotional and spiritual aspect of care can be easily forgotten. Professionals know that it is important to care for individuals as a whole as all parts need to be nourished in order to deal the current health status. Nurses tend to be the best option for assessing the spiritual needs of clients, but even nurses can feel uncomfortable and lost on understanding spirituality in general. This leads to the needs of the client not being fully and/or appropriately assessed. In the following, an example is presented of a spirituality assessment using a tool as a guideline to appropriately assess the patient’s needs. D. R. is a sixty-one year old Hispanic female who was raised in Texas. She has been readmitted to this facility from an outlying facility approximately two hours away for a Non ST Elevated Myocardial Infarction with a positive Nuclear Medicine Study. Upon admission, she is unaccompanied, pleasant but also anxious. She has a significant cardiac history which includes a three vessel Coronary Artery Bypass Graft in 2003 and three coronary Stents placed in 2011. In addition to her current diagnosis, she is a type II Diabetic, suffers from Hypertension...
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...Spiritual Needs Assessment William Cline Grand Canyon University: HLT-310V Spirituality in Health Care June 30, 2012 Introduction In this paper the writer presents a spiritual assessment tool developed to obtain a quick guide to help the health care worker understand the patients spiritual and/or religious needs. It is hoped by this writer that the tool will enable the health care worker to treat the patient in a holistic manner. In the following paragraphs the writer outlines the assessment tool and the answers given by a co-worker, which filled out the questionnaire as if they were a patient. This writer then will outline how well, or how poorly, the assessment tool helped guide the treatment of the patient. A Spiritual Screen, History, or Assessment The first step in doing a spiritual assessment starts by knowing why we need to do one. In a non-formal survey taken by this writer, about ninety percent of this writers co-workers said they did not think most patients wanted spirituality and/or religious issues addressed during their hospitalization. This answer is drastically different than the answers given by patients in many recent studies. An article from the Joint Commission says: in one study, a majority of patients polled indicated that they want their primary care givers to ask whether patients have spiritual or religious beliefs that would influence their medical decisions and/or treatments if they became gravely ill. And in...
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...Trauma, Development, and Spirituality Clayton Newsome Dr. Pamela Todd Counseling 502 September 11, 2014 Introduction People can suffer from many different situations throughout their life time. Trauma is one effect that can cause a person to do things out of the ordinary. When a person suffers from trauma it can affect them for the rest of their life. In this essay I will discuss how trauma can affect a person through development as well as spiritually. Neural Development Trauma can affect a child’s neural development and will attack their fine motor skills in a way where it is hard for them to function. In young children, gross motor, fine motor, and cognitive development are intertwined processes related to the maturation timetables of the central and peripheral nervous systems. Neurons are migrating, proliferating, and making more complex connections. Children become capable of more sophisticated communications with the production of neurotransmitters. Myelination, the sheathing of neurons in protective layers of fatty and protein substances, increases the rate of neuronal firing and facilitates faster, more complex signals between brain cells and from the brain to the rest of the body (Roehlkepartain, 2006). Children who are tested for ADHD are normally given a false reading, which causes a since of not know for sure how many children have the disorder. There are drug treatments for this type of disorder such as Ritalin or Dexadrine. However, some studies suggest...
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