Spirituality in Healthcare: Perspectives for Innovative Practice

This book provides a condensed but comprehensive up-to-date overview of spirituality and its application to health care. The need for healthcare workers to provide spiritual care or meet patients’ spiritual needs is gaining increasing importance in nursing and midwifery policy at local, national and...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Timmins, Fiona (Editor), Caldeira, Sílvia (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2019, 2019
Edition:1st ed. 2019
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • What is Spirituality?
  • The psychology of spirituality and religion in healthcare
  • Spiritual assessment in healthcare: an overview of comprehensive, sensitive approaches to spiritual assessment for use within the interdisciplinary healthcare team
  • Spirituality is a Public Health Issue – The potential role of spirituality in promoting health
  • Health Outcomes of Religious and Spiritual Belief, Behavior, and Belonging: Implications for Healthcare Professionals
  • Spirituality and Childbirth
  • Providing spiritual care – An exploration of required spiritual care competencies in health care and their impact on health care provision
  • The role of the nurse in providing spiritual care – A case study approach to exploring specific care provision by healthcare workers in the context of an interdisciplinary healthcare team
  • Loss and Grief in people with Intellectual disability
  • The Role of the Healthcare Chaplain – A summary of the contribution of healthcare chaplains to modern health carepractice
  • Teaching and Learning about Spirituality in Healthcare Practice Settings
  • Working with diversity – An overview of diversity in contemporary society and the effect of this on healthcare situations
  • Being Human: Cultivating Mindfulness and Compassion for Daily Living