Spiritual Development Case Study

ANTECEDENTS

To determine spirituality in personal development, the nurse must have delivered spiritual care to a patient therefore not only focusing on the physiological aspects of care but also on the patient’s spirit. The nurse will then connect with the patient at a deep, intimate and transcendent level which improves the quality of care given. The spiritual care given must not have been forced by the nurse upon the patient. Spiritual care includes simple interventions such as praying, taking time to sit with patients in listening, affirming or explaining procedures they are not aware of, reading or sharing scriptures and meditating.

DEFINING ATTRIBUTES

Five defining attributes have been identified for the concept of spirituality in personal development: 1) The nurse has a high level of awareness on the significance of delivering spiritual care, 2) therefore they render both physiological and spiritual care, 3) and establish a connection with the patient from giving spiritual care in a more transcendent level. The nurse will then 4) find meaning and creative healing from the carried spiritual care which leads to better quality of care and thus affecting all aspects of

She described her patient as conversant with a pleasaing personality. Ren would perform the usual nursing care such as tepid sponge bath, giving due medications. But on her final day of duty, she noticed that her patient looked sad and was silent most of the time. After the doctor told the patient that he can go home, he confided to Ren about his feelings of hopelessness with his current condition. He said that he will be brought back to the hospital again anyway. He believed that his condition would worsen and that he would become a heavier burden to his family. Her patient could not fathom why the Lord gave him this illness where even medicine and other treatments were not even enough to get him