Chapter 46 Flashcards
identify three spiritual needs believed to be common to all people
- need for meaning and purpose
- need for love and relatedness
- need for forgiveness
influences of spirituality on everyday living, health and illness
daily living habits (diet, birth-control)
source of support( church, prayer, devotional reading)
source of strength and healing ( family,)
source of conflict( blood transfusion, punishment)
life-affirming influences of religious beliefs
enhance life, give meaning and purpose to existence, strengthen one’s feelings of self-worth, encourage self-actualization, and health giving and life sustaining.
Life denying influences of religious beliefs
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
identify five factors that influence spirituality
- Developmental considerations
- Family
- ethnic background
- formal religion
- life events
identify appropriate interview questions and observation skills in performing a nursing assessment of spiritual health
Spiritual belief system Personal spirituality Integration and involvement in a community Ritualized practices and restrictions Implications for medical care Terminal events planning
Develop basic nursing Dx that correctly identify spiritual problems
Readiness for enhances spiritual well-being spiritual distress spiritual guilt impaired religiosity fear hopelessness self-esteem disturbance ineffective individual coping
Spiritual Distress
Impaired ability to experience and integrate meaning and purpose in life through one’s connectedness with self, others, art, music, literature, nature, or a power greater than oneself.
how can religious influences affect a person
Life affirming
Life denying
Life affirming
enhance life, give meaning and purpose to existence
Life denying
restrict or enclose life patterns, limit experiences and associations place burdens of guilt on individuals.
anything that pertains to a person’s relationship with a nonmaterial life force or higher power
spirituality
confident belief in something for which there is no proof or material evidence
faithd
one who holds that nothing can be know about the existence of a higher power.
Agnostic
A person who denies the existence of a higher power
Atheist
An organized system of beliefs about a higher power characterized by set forms of worship, spiritual practices and codes of conduct
Religion