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Spirituality in Nursing, Fourth Edition
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: 9780763796501
  • Paperback    432 pages      © 2011
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Spirituality in Nursing: Standing on Holy Ground, Fourth Edition explores the relationship between spirituality and the practice of nursing, providing students and professionals with invaluable insights from a variety of perspectives. Topics include nursing assessment of patients' spiritual needs, the nurse's role in the provision of spiritual care, the spiritual nature of the nurse-patient relationship, the spiritual history of the nursing profession, and contemporary interest in spirituality within the nursing profession. Completely updated and revised, this Fourth Edition now includes a chapter on servant leadership.

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Dedication  
Preface  
Text Credits  
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  Chapter  1  Spirituality in Nursing: Standing on Holy Ground
  Chapter  2  A Spiritual History of Nursing
  Chapter  3  Nursing Assessment of Spiritual Needs
  Chapter  4  A Middle-Range Theory of Spiritual Well-Being in Illness
  Chapter  5  The Nurse–Patient Relationship: A Sacred Covenant
  Chapter  6  Spiritual Care: The Nurse’s Role
  Chapter  7  Spiritual Needs of the Patient with an Acute Illness
  Chapter  8  Spiritual Needs of the Chronically Ill Person
  Chapter  9  Spiritual Needs of Children and Families
  Chapter  10  Spiritual Needs of the Older Adult
  Chapter  11  Spiritual Well-Being and Quality of Life at the End of Life
  Chapter  12  Spiritual Needs in Death and Bereavement
  Chapter  13  Parish Nursing: Caregiving within a Faith Community
  Chapter  14  Spiritual Needs in Mass Casualty Disasters
  Chapter  15  The Spirituality of Servant Leadership In Nursing
Epilogue
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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.

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