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J Adv Nurs
November 2014
School of Nursing, Loma Linda University, California, USA.
Aims: To describe how the religiosity of Christian nurses motivates their practice and manifests during patient care, especially spiritual care.
Background: Nurses around the world are often religious. This religiosity inherently affects nursing practice.
The purpose of this study was to identify barriers in providing spiritual care to hospitalized patients. A convenience sample (N = 271) was recruited at an academic medical center in New York City for an exploratory, descriptive questionnaire. The Spiritual Care Practice (SCP) questionnaire assesses spiritual care practices and perceived barriers to spiritual care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThere is a widespread belief that nurses have a duty to provide spiritual care. However, many feel there is still a need for debate surrounding the ethical use of prayer in both nursing research and practice. By using critical reflections and evidence-based literature, this paper develops a discourse on the ethics of prayer as a spiritual intervention in nursing and health care practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNew Dir Youth Dev
November 2008
University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA.
Mentoring through faith-based programs could reach some of the most severely disadvantaged youth, yet efforts could be undermined if proselytizing occurs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Bioeth
July 2007
Department of Philosophy, California State University-Sacramento, Mendocino Hall, Sacramento, CA 95819-6033, USA.
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