IM1-- EXAM 6 Flashcards
What does the Texas Administrative code Title 22 examining board chapter 217
Rule 217.11 state
Provide without discrimination, nursing services regardless of age, disability, economic status, national origin, race, religion, health problems or sexual orientation of the client served.
What does the ANA code of ethic for nurses state:
The nurse, in all professional relationships, practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and uniqueness of every individual, unrestricted by considerations of social or economic status, personal attributes, or the nature of health problems
What is spirituality?
- Complex concept that is unique to each individual and is dependent upon a person’s culture, development, life experiences, beliefs and ideas about life
Spirituality encompasses what?
- Connectdness
- Transcendence and self transcendence
- Faith and hope
- Inner strength and peace
- Meaning and purpose in life
- Person
Spiritual wellness is….
- Awareness of one’s inner self
- Connection to a higher being, nature
- Values
- Highly individualized
What are some attributes to spiritual wellness
- Harmony
- Purpose
- Self acceptance
- Clear values
- Positive outlook
- Peace
- Balance
- Growth
Spiritual wellness maintenance includes….
- making time to relax
- Make time for quiet reflection
- Do my values guide my decisions and actions?
- Am I accepting of the views others?
- Do I have a source of hope?
- Attempting to offer forgiveness to others
True or false: Spiritual wellness has a positive effect on health?
True
True or false: Spiritual wellness can enhance a patient’s quality of life
True
Can spiritual wellness help a patient accept hardship and even mortality?
Yes
What are the 2 types of spirituality?
- Religious
- non-Religious
When it comes to spirituality and religion what should we know….
- Spirituality is found in all human cultures
- Expressed differently in religious faith
- Spirituality does not have to include religion
- Being spiritual does not mean practicing religion
- Congruency (spirituality outside of religion)
When it comes to Spirituality and Health and the benefits it provides what should we know….
- Reduces stress
- Improved health outcomes with chronic conditions
- Helps with pain management
- Comfort for the dying and bereaving
- Enhances recovery from illness and surgery
- Decreases anxiety, depression, anger, discomfort, and feelings of isolation
- decreases alcohol and drug abuse
- decreases blood pressure and risk of heart disease
- increases the ability to cope
- Increases feeling of hope, optimism, freedom from regret, inner peace, and satisfaction with life.
How does spirituality help in the healing process
- enhances comfort
- Provides inner peace
- Helps patients come to terms with disability and death
In spirituality the “relationship” includes
- self, family, friends, loved ones
What are aspects of relationships that effect spirituality?
- Love
- Trust
- Communication
- Hurt
- Mistrust
What are some examples of spiritual wellness…
Despite suffering
1. Feeling connected to others who are suffering
2. Feeling support love and room in my heart for others
3. Keep up the fight to endure, pushing beyond limitations
4. Transform this world into a place of wholeness and mutual support
What is spiritual distress?
- “The state in which the individual experiences or is at risk for experiencing a disturbance in his belief system that is the source of his strength and hope”
What are some characteristics of spiritual distress?
- Concern with the meaning of life, suffering and/or death
- Concern about belief system
- Anger toward God/religious representatives
- No longer participates in religious practices
- Concern about his/her relationship with God
- Question meaning of own existence
- Feels, guilt, shame, remorse
- Feels helpless and hopeless
- seeks spiritual assistance
- Demonstrates gallows humor
- Suffers from sleep disturbances
- Alterations in mood or behavior
What is some of the information we gather when we do a spiritual assessment?
- Faith/belief
- life and self-responsibility
- Connectedness to God or higher power and others
- Life satisfaction
- Culture
- Fellowship and community
- Ritual and practice
- Vocation
What nursing actions can we perform in regards to spirituality
- Offer to contact the pastoral care dept
- Plan activities to promote healing of body, mind, spirit
- offer to teach relaxation, guided imagery, and meditation technique
True or false: Religion is organized beliefs and worship….”state of doing”
True
What is agnostic religion?
A person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena; a person who claims neither faith nor disbelief in God.
What is atheism?
An atheist is a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods and an ultimate reality