respect patient’s beliefs,
6-Identifying your strengths and weaknesses before providing patient spiritual care can help identify your spirituality and assist in patients’ spiritual care satisfaction and patient outcome. As a nurse, listening is a good skill I must have to provide good spiritual care. I know that is important to respect patient’s beliefs, encourage the use of the use of their spiritual practices and display a genuine and caring attitude. Knowing that I need to open and comfortable to patient’s feelings and give them attention and time they deserve.
It is very important to manage perceived barriers to spiritual care because it can affect patient communication which can be considered a weakness. It is a challenge to set nursing interventions for a patient in spiritual distress and he or she may be questioning for the reason of his/her suffering. Planning continuing spiritual care can be helpful, but there is limited documentation process of spiritual care for continuity.
Reference
http://gcumedia.com/digital-resources/intervarsity-press/2006/called-to-care_a-christian-worldview-for-nursing_ebook_2e.php
