2- Spirituality (ch 46)

Question 0

Spirituality

Answer 0

Anything that pertains to a persons relationship with non material life force or higher power

Question 1

Spiritual needs

Answer 1

1. Need for meaning and purpose
2. Need for love and relatedness
3. Need for forgiveness

Question 2

Faith

Answer 2

Confident belief in something for which there is no proof or material evidence

Cultural or institutional religion or relationship with a higher power. (Class)

Question 3

Atheist

Answer 3

Person who denies the existence of a higher power

Question 4

Agnostic

Answer 4

One who holds that nothing can be known about he existence of a higher power.

Question 5

Religion

Answer 5

An organized system of beliefs about a higher power characterized by set forms of worship, spiritual practices, and codes of conduct.

Specific system of practice associated with a denomination, sect, or form of relationship. (Class)

Question 6

Spiritual health

Answer 6

Or well being: is the condition that exists when the universal spiritual needs for meaning and purpose, love and belonging, and forgiveness are met

Question 7

Spiritual healing

Answer 7

Movement toward integration from brokenness to wholeness

Question 8

Life-affirming influences

Answer 8

Enhance life, give meaning and purpose to existence, strengthen ones feelings of self worth, encourage self actualization and are health giving and life sustaining.

Question 9

Life denying influences

Answer 9

Restrict or enclose life patterns , limit experiences and associations, place burdens of guilt on individuals, encourage feelings of unworthiness, and are generally health denying and life inhibiting

Question 10

Hope

Answer 10

Positive outlook

Gives an individual a motivation and the resource to achieve (class)

Question 11

Factors affecting spirituality

Answer 11

• developmental considerations
• Family
• ethnic background
• formal religion
• life events

Question 12

Guide to elicit spirituality

Answer 12

HOPE
H-sources of hope,earning and comfort
O- organized religion
P- personal spirituality and practice
E- effects on medical care and end of life care

Question 13

Scientific knowledge base

Answer 13

• Mind body and spirit are interrelated
• physical and psychological well being results from beliefs and expectations
• beliefs and convictions are powerful resources for healing

Question 14

Spirituality. (Class info)

Answer 14

Complex, unique to the individual

Question 15

Spiritual well being

Answer 15

An inter connectedness between god and a higher power and other people

Question 16

Self transcendence

Answer 16

A sense if authentically connecting to ones inner self

Question 17

Transcendence

Answer 17

Belief that a force outside of SMS greater than the person exists beyond the material world

Question 18

Religious vs spiritual care

Answer 18

Religious- helping patient,to maintain faithfulness to their belief system and worship practices
Spiritual- helping people ID meaning and purpose in life, look beyond the present, and maintain personal relationship with a higher being or life force

Question 19

Spiritual distress

Answer 19

Impaired ability to experience and intergrate meaning and purpose in life through connectedness worth self, others, art, music, literature, nature and power of a higher being

Question 20

Related factors to spiritual distress

Answer 20

Active dying, loneliness, social alienation, anxiety, pain, life change, chronic illness, death, challenged belief/value system, self alienation

Question 21

Dif characteristics *fix

Subjective

Answer 21

Connections to self
Connections to others
Connections to a higher power

Question 22

Factors affecting spirituality

Answer 22

Acute illness
  -sudden unexpected
  - spiritual rituals often used
Chronic illness
  -threatens a persons independence 
Terminal illness
  -uncertainty about death
Near death experience 
  -psychological phenomenon close to clinical death or recovered after declared dead