The Spiritual Variable

Answer 1

Faith Flags

Answer 2

Presencing

Question 3

Should not be prescriptive (i.e., the following of a set guideline for intervening to resolve a client’s spiritual problem). Instead it should be descriptive of ways nurses can offer spiritual support.

Answer 3

Spiritual Care

(p. 955)

Question 4

Refers to “a disturbance in the belief or value system that provides strength, hope, and meaning to life.”

• Expresses lack of hope, meaning of life, inadequate acceptance of self
• Expresses feeling abandoned or anger toward power greater than self
• Refuse interaction with significant others
• Exhibits sudden changes in spiritual practices
• Requests (or refused) to interact with a spiritual leader
• Has no interest in nature or in reading spiritual literature.

Answer 4

Spiritual Distress

(p. 955)

Question 5

Results when individuals intentionally seek to strengthen their spiritual muscles, as it were, through various spiritual disciplines (e.g., prayer, meditation, service, fellowship with similar believers, learning from a spiritual mentor, worship, study, fasting)

Answer 5

Spiritual Health

• opposite of spiritual distress*
• does not occur by chance, but by choice*

Answer 6

Spiritual History

Answer 7

Spiritual Need