Week 11

Question 1

What does it mean to care for someone’s spiritual health

Answer 1

Caring for the whole person

Addressing issues Surrounding meaning and hope

Question 2

What is involved in a spiritual assessment

Answer 2

Acknowledging your own spiritual background
Establishing a strong relationship with the individual
Appropriate timing
HOPE questions
BELIEF mnemonic

Question 3

What are the HOPE questions

Answer 3

H: Sources of hope, meaning, comfort, strength, peace, love, and connection
O: Organized religion
P: Personal spirituality and practices
E: Effects on medical care and end-of-life issues

Question 4

What is the BELIEF assessment

Answer 4

B: Belief system 
E: Ethics of values 
L: Lifestyle
I: Involvement in a spiritual community 
E: Education
F: Future

Question 5

What are some goals for guiding spiritual conversations

Answer 5

• Invite patients to share spiritual beliefs and values.
• Learn about those beliefs and values.
• Open an opportunity for compassionate care.
• Empower patients to draw on their resources for healing and acceptance.
• Identify practices and beliefs that are important for the plan of care.
• Identify those patients who would benefit from a referral to a spiritual care provider

Question 6

Barriers to spiritual care

Answer 6

• Time
• Lack of knowledge
• Lack of confidence
• Multiplicity of belief, ideologies, religions, philosophies

Question 7

Definition of quality of life

Answer 7

an individual’s perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards, and concerns

Question 8

Factors contributing to the quality of life

Answer 8

• Good physical and mental health
• Financial stability
• Positive family dynamics and cohesiveness,
• Strong social support networks, and
• Maintenance of an optimal level of cognitive functioning, and personal control

Question 9

Plummer and Molzahn’s theory of quality of life

Answer 9

Quality of life is more useful to nursing than the term “health”- its multidimensional and holistic

Question 10

Parse’s theory of quality of life

Answer 10

Quality of life includes the person’s view of living moment to moment while patterns shift and change. there is a changing nature to quality of life

Question 11

Hirskyi theory of quality of life

Answer 11

QALY framework: outcome measure that can be used to determine the efficacy of nursing care as measured not by only the quantity of life but also the quality of life

Question 12

Low and Molzahn’s theory of quality

Answer 12

Nursing interventions should promote activities of daily living, provide emotional support, and enhance the environment