Assignment: Patient’s Spiritual Needs

Assignment: Patient’s Spiritual Needs
Assignment: Patient’s Spiritual Needs
In addition to the topic study materials, use the chart you completed and questions you answered in the Topic 3 about “Case Study: Healing and Autonomy” as the basis for your responses in this assignment.
Answer the following questions about a patient’s spiritual needs in light of the Christian worldview.
In 200-250 words, respond to the following: Should the physician allow Mike to continue making decisions that seem to him to be irrational and harmful to James, or would that mean a disrespect of a patient’s autonomy? Explain your rationale.
In 400-500 words, respond to the following: How ought the Christian think about sickness and health? How should a Christian think about medical intervention? What should Mike as a Christian do? How should he reason about trusting God and treating James in relation to what is truly honoring the principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence in James’s care?
In 200-250 words, respond to the following: How would a spiritual needs assessment help the physician assist Mike determine appropriate interventions for James and for his family or others involved in his care?
One of the most difficult tasks a nurse faces is providing comfort to patients.
With scientific advancements in health care, belief in the value of our spiritual nature has become more complex in recent years, particularly in terms of health and sickness.
Researchers have lately concluded that sensitivity to patients’ spiritual needs is necessary for providing true and comprehensive health treatment.
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Holistic nursing emphasizes the interconnections between the body, mind, and spirit.
As a result, nursing necessitates taking into account all of these dimensions, as well as their interrelationships.
Patients with chronic disorders are troubled by spiritual stress and frequent behavioral changes, in addition to enduring physical distress.
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Because patients are entering an unfamiliar setting, the health-care system must designate a person for this task and provide him or her with the necessary training.
Patients must be aware that there is someone who can assist them.
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When a patient is involved in therapeutic activities, he or she has a lot of time to reflect on the meaning of life and the disease.
Spiritual alterations in the patient’s past and future attitudes and behaviors may be strikingly influenced by physical participation.
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Every group and culture has a connection to God and power sources that can clarify the patient’s life objective, allowing the patient to withstand the disease’s discomfort; the power sources to which attention is paid may be diverse.
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“You humans are eternally dependant on the unnecessary God,” the Holy Quran says.
This need is always there in humans, although it manifests itself more prominently during illness.
“And when they board a ship, they supplicate Allah, sincere to Him in religion,” God says in another chapter.
When He brings them to the country, however, they immediately link Him with others” (Sura Ankabut, 65).
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As a result, nurses must acknowledge the religious nature of human society in order to help patients maintain good health.
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Human care, according to Leininger, is a universal phenomena, although its expressions, processes, and care patterns vary among cultures.
In his opinion, care has spiritual significance.
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During a crisis, it’s possible that praying will be difficult.
Blessing for the patient and his or her attendants can be an important spiritual care intervention in such instances.
One of the most helpful prayers is to ask God to satisfy the patient’s needs, both fear and hope, and to remind them that God is capable of meeting their needs in these circumstances.
Prayer and religious traditions must be practiced in proper settings to avoid unwanted consequences.1
The term “attending the patient in the hospital” has a broad definition.
Attending, from the patient’s perspective, entails taking into account all of his or her medical concerns.
As a result, attending includes respecting the patient and taking into account his or her humanistic characteristics, as well as conversing with and connecting with the patient.
Respect for the patient’s perspectives and requests is emphasized in holistic nursing.
Nurses should ensure that they complete cases based on the patient’s wishes rather than the nurse’s desires.
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Communication is an important aspect of nursing everyday performance in the patient-nurse relationship.
The core of their relationship is communication.
Good communication reinforces and improves the power of successful attendance.
Nurses, as members of the health-care system, spend a significant amount of time conversing with patients and listening to their worries, feelings, and needs.
Some of these interactions are tough for nurses and are accompanied by strong emotions such as nervousness, despair, challenges caused by life-threatening diseases, or family issues.
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Communication, on the other hand, is the source of the most unhappiness in hospitals.
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Despite the fact that disease may alter the path of a patient’s life, they are never dissatisfied, and each patient remains hopeful; nevertheless, this is in the form of “quiet hope.”
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We investigated the spiritual needs of hospitalized patients in our hermeneutic phenomenological study, which is presented as a fundamental pattern called spiritual needs of hospitalized patients.