What does it mean to care for someone’s spiritual health
Caring for the whole person
Addressing issues Surrounding meaning and hope
What is involved in a spiritual assessment
Acknowledging your own spiritual background
Establishing a strong relationship with the individual
Appropriate timing
HOPE questions
BELIEF mnemonic
What are the HOPE questions
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
What is the BELIEF assessment
B: Belief system E: Ethics of values L: Lifestyle I: Involvement in a spiritual community E: Education F: Future
What are some goals for guiding spiritual conversations
- 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
Barriers to spiritual care
- Time
- Lack of knowledge
- Lack of confidence
- Multiplicity of belief, ideologies, religions, philosophies
Definition of quality of life
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
Factors contributing to the quality of life
- 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
Plummer and Molzahn’s theory of quality of life
Quality of life is more useful to nursing than the term “health”- its multidimensional and holistic
Parse’s theory of quality of life
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
Hirskyi theory of quality of life
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
Low and Molzahn’s theory of quality
Nursing interventions should promote activities of daily living, provide emotional support, and enhance the environment
