Spiritual, Religious, and Cultural Aspects of Care (Hpna Palliative Nursing Manuals)

Spiritual, Religious, and Cultural Aspects of Care is the fifth volume in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series. Chapters address how to conduct a spiritual assessment of patients and families, spiritual interventions including compassionate presence, listening deeply, bearing witness, and being compassionate, how to partner with the patient and family to ensure culture guides the plan of care, how to find meaning in illness, the many dimensions of hope and its influence on the dying process. The content of the concise, clinically focused volumes in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series is one resource for nurses preparing for specialty certification exams and provides a quick-reference in daily practice. Plentiful tables and patient teaching points make these volumes useful resources for nurses. Table of contents: Spiritual assessment / Elizabeth Johnston Taylor Spiritual care intervention / Rev. Pamela Baird Cultural considerations in palliative care / Polly Mazanec and Joan T. Panke Meaning in illness / Tami Borneman and Katherine Brown-Saltzman The meaning of hope in the dying / Valerie T. Cotter and Anessa M. Foxwell Cover Series HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals Copyright Contents Preface Contributors 1. Spiritual Assessment 2. Spiritual Care Intervention 3. Cultural Considerations in Palliative Care 4. Meaning in Illness 5. The Meaning of Hope in the Dying Index Spiritual, Religious, and Cultural Aspects of Care, the fifth volume in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series, addresses how to conduct a spiritual assessment of patients and families. __Spiritual, Religious, and Cultural Aspects of Care__