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A Nurse's Handbook of Spiritual Care: Standing on Holy Ground

Author(s): Mary Elizabeth O'Brien, SFCC, PhD, MTS, RN, FAAN, Catholic University of America
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763732912
  • ISBN-10:0763732915
  • Paperback    224 pages      © 2004
Price: International Sales $45.95 US List
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Overview

This handy pocket guide provides quick access to a variety of information that helps nurses address the spiritual needs of patients. Designed for use in myriad health care settings, and particularly ideal for visiting and parish nurses, it provides:

 

  • An assessment tool for measuring the spiritual needs of patients
  • An overview of the nurse’s role in the provision of spiritual care
  • Guidelines for administering spiritual care to the acutely ill, chronically ill, children, families, elderly, and the grieving
  • Numerous meditations and prayers for specific situations
  • And much more!

When used by staff, this resource can help your healthcare facility meet accreditation standards for assessing the spiritual needs of patients.

 

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Contains highlights from three of Sister Mary Elizabeth O'Brien's books:  Spirituality in Nursing Prayer in Nursing, and  Parish Nursing.

Contains numerous prayers and meditations for nurses, including 15 "Nurses' Prayers for the Sick," such as:

  • Prayer for a Person Preparing to Enter the Hospital
  • Prayer Before Surgery
  • Prayer for a Sick Child
  • Prayer for a Person Beginning Life in a Nursing Home
  • Prayer for One Who is Terminally Ill
  • and more.

This Handbook contains two unique tools for clinical practice: the author's own Spiritual Assessment Scale and the Parish Health Needs Assessment.

Includes the author's own Model of Spiritual Well-Being in Illness, useful in nursing research and practice.

Contains a chapter on Parish Nursing which includes tables that summarize key points such as:

  • Guidelines for Developing a Parish Health Ministry Program
  • Suggested Activities for Parish Health Ministers
  • Ministry Visits to Homebound Parishioners in Long-Term Care Facilities
  • Ministry Visits to Terminally Ill Parishioners
  • Bereaved Families

Pocket size makes this book highly portable and useful in a variety of care settings.

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Spirituality in Nursing: "Standing on Holy Ground"
Nursing Assessment of Spiritual Needs
The Nurse-Patient Relationship: A Sacred Covenant
Spiritual Care of the Acutely Ill Person
Spiritual Care of the Chronically Ill Person
Spiritual Care of the Ill Child
Spiritual Care of Families
Spiritual Care of the Older Adult
Spiritual Care in Death and Bereavement
"Parish Nursing: Healthcare Ministry Within the Church"
Spirituality in Mass Casualty Disasters
Prayer in Nursing: The Spirituality of Compassionate Caregiving


Epilogue: Nursing in the 21st Century
Appendix A: Nurses' Prayers for the Sick
Appendix B: A Nurses' Psalm of Reference for Life
Appendix C: A Nurses' Way of the Cross

 


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ShowAbout the Author(s)

Mary Elizabeth O'Brien, SFCC, PhD, MTS, RN, FAAN-Catholic University of America

Mary Elizabeth O'Brien is Professor of Nursing at the Catholic University of America.  She is also a parish nurse and the author of seven titles, four of which, A Nurse's Handbook of Spiritual Care: Standing on Holy Ground, Spirituality in Nursing: Standing on Holy Ground, Second Edition Prayer in Nursing: The Spirituality of Compassionate Caregiving, and  Parish Nursing: Healthcare Ministry within the Church, are published by Jones and Bartlett.

Additional Titles by this Author

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ShowAppropriate Courses

Spirituality in Health Care

Spirituality in Nursing Practice

Parish Nursing

 

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