Greenstreet Spirituality and Coping with Loss

End of Life Healthcare Practice
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4987-6785-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten

Spirituality and Coping with Loss: End of Life Healthcare Practice describes a research study that reflects nurses’ experience of the nature of loss encountered in end of life care settings as well as the ways in which spirituality is a resource in coping in these situations. Key findings indicate how nurses’ spiritual development impacts their proficiency in spiritual care. These findings will be of interest to nurses and nurse educators as well as other healthcare professionals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greenstreet, Wendy

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Palliativmedizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege

Inhaltsverzeichnis

SETTING THE SCENE
Introduction: The Point of the Study
The Choice of Approach
An Outline of What Was Already Known
Involving Nurses as Research Participants
Analysis of Experience Shared

IMPACT OF LOSS AS A CONTEXT OF CARE
Consequences of Loss for Patients and Their Significant Others
Accessing Support to Help Patients Cope
Impact of Loss on Nurses
Belonging as the Means of Nurses Coping

THE IMPACT OF PROCESS OF CARE ON NURSES’ PROFICIENCY IN SPIRITUAL CARE
Belief as the Pillar of Spirituality
Being a ‘Spiritual Carer’
Becoming Proficient in Spiritual Care

IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION AND PRACTICE
Work Culture
Role of Belief in Meaning Making
‘Openness’ as a Particular Style of Communication
Discipline in Self-Care

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Wendy Greenstreet is a former Senior Lecturer in the Department of Health, Wellbeing and the Family at Canterbury Christ Church University. Wendy has 15 years’ experience of curriculum development and delivery of spirituality as a perspective of health care. Initiated in research concerning spirituality in preregistration nursing curriculum and a follow-up study 10 years later, she has addressed spirituality as part of post-registration modules concerned with the human experience of disability and palliative care. She also developed a module entitled ’Spirituality’ as a perspective of care as part of a top-up degree in health and social care. Wendy has also addressed spirituality in postgraduate modules on loss, pain management and spiritual assessment as part of a module on spirituality in palliative care at a neighbouring university. Her MPhil/PhD research was focused on spirituality as a resource in nursing practice.