Self-Assessment
During difficult times, faith gives me strength, and I always believe that every hard thing will eventually change for the best. Secondly, life purpose is the aspect of spirituality that has been very helpful to me. In simple terms, it can be explained as a spiritual pillar that anchors my faith and belief that difficult time will change. Prayers come in the form of short words presented either loudly or maybe silently (Timmins & Caldeira, 2017). After prayer activity, I usually feel relieved and free from all discouraging forces. Supplication makes the heart believe that every problem that I present to God will be answered in due time despite the present situation.
To nurture one’s spirituality, constantly read God’s word and make prayer aspects a regular course. Praying does not only mean doing it during difficult times; instead, it should involve absolute submission accompanied by believing in God at all times. In addition to nurturing my spirituality, I participate in spiritual practice in the church, such as leading children’s teachings and organizing church members for bible study. After participating in such spiritual practice, I feel closer to God and more blessings descending upon me. To attain the required spiritual stability, I dedicate most of my precious time after daily activities to prayer in places of worship.
List of Self Care Activities
- Exercising
- Sleeping routine
- Taking a bath
- Eating a healthy diet
- Praying
- Reading Relevant books
The essential self-care activity is exercising, which helps in keeping me fit health-wise. Additionally, self-care is connected to spirituality by ensuring that all these activities improve psychologically, physically, and emotionally.
Peer Assessment
There is a strong relationship between spirituality and health care. Religious commitment increases mental health and improves the general health of a patient. In my case, I will choose a HOPE as my spiritual assessment tool that will help improve the patient health. I decided on this tool because it involves medical care practitioners, and the patient glorifies religion and personal spirituality. This tool also assesses the effects on the patient’s medical care, which helps give out the outcome to the health practitioner. Hope improves patients’ conditions by believing that their help comes from God (Timmins & Caldeira, 2017). HOPE also helps in preventing health care measures and identifying internal spiritual resources such as meditation and yoga.
After discussing with my partner how the tool impacts the patients and additions to my assessment, I realized that it is essential as it lifts one’s belief and trust in God in every situation. While administrating the tool to my partner, it depicted a positive effect from the response showing that this tool modifies treatment plan and ease the work of the health caregivers. Changing health care is essential because the patient’s health status will be improved, giving hope. Based on my experience, HOPE gives patients adjuvant care and believes that every hard time will eventually change for good. Receiving the assessment with a sense of hope gives the client faith in their health care and finally gets healed.
A perfect example of this is when I talked to a patient who wanted therapy for acute tuberculosis. Employing faith and hope, they improved their health by always taking meals and constantly practicing, which was a positive response from HOPE (Hawthorne & Gordon, 2020)). A specific subjective experience is seen when the patients are very emotional and in pain. Prayer, administration of hope, together with suitable encouragement, helped the patient recover and believe that he will recover.
Professional and Nursing Assessment
Patient’s response in my tool.
Preparation for the spiritual assessment involves knowing, skill, and attitude to understand what the healthcare giver is communicating. Faith helps me cope by giving absolute biblical reliance that drives the heart to believe. To build on my faith development in my heart, I have to pray to God to ensure that I present my problems and ask for assistance, especially in challenging moments. To apply the above (knowledge, skill, and attitude) spiritual assessment, acquiring information about the clients will help avoid clichés. This involves repeating the same thing, even after its expiry, for example, asking the patient about only one thing.
The other thing that will ensure I succeed in my assessment is that it will help me not be judgmental or even force issues but rather dedicate my entire hope to God in all situations. Understanding what faith is and how it functions helps me accept that there will be a change and healing in my life. In nursing, privacy is paramount; I will appreciate others and not expose their privacy and show acceptance with the proper knowledge. The other very important skill that is brought by attitude is the ability to listening and turn-taking during a conversation with the client.
Thirdly, the right attitude will help open to the ritual spiritual practice and identify the objects of connection and hope such as music, art, relationship, and nature. My perspective will also help me know the pain relief measures such as humor, touch, and prayers. By identifying this, patients will see the light in their journey of recovery (Robert et al., 2019). The spiritual assessment between the patients and me became effective when I created an effective chatting environment and a good rapport. I also depicted a high level of professionalism and mastery of my work to develop trust in my clients.
Handling clients ought to be an art that can be fulfilled by acquiring the correct code of behavior and attitude. In nursing, some behaviors should conform to the principle of conduct of the practice. For example, some patients may have a problem that affects the whole family, and they are not supposed to be made public when it comes to privacy. Secondly, respecting the point of view of a client is also among the code of conduct that nurses need to emphasize with significant consideration. When a patient explains their plight, a person must take heed and put it into concern. For the success of the assessment, practice knowledge, skill and attitude will be an essential tool that can guide a nurse to understand what the nurses are explaining. Skills are crucial and a central pillar in life because they provide a basis for making things right. Lastly, developing the necessary knowledge that will fit the practice is very important for the success of the assessment.
Plan of Care NDs Statement
Moral distress is when a professional medical nurse is emotionally altered and tasked to do what is unethically correct. For example, a medic is not giving attention to a patient who has not paid their bill. Ethically, the nurse is aware that it is not right and against the desired professional practice (Hawthorne & Gordon, 2020). Secondly, we have the issue brought about by hope and hopelessness. In this case, for a patient to believe that they will recover there should be hope from the caregivers. Despair comes when the client is spiritually and emotionally distressed.
Three Creative Nursing Interventions
- Promoting adequate nutrition and activity
- Promoting airway clearance
- Adherence and following the right treatment
References
Hawthorne, D. M., & Gordon, S. C. (2020). The invisibility of spiritual nursing care in clinical practice. Journal of Holistic Nursing, 38(1), 147-155. Web.
Robert, r., Stavinoha, P., Jones, B. L., Robinson, J., Larson, K., Hicklen, R., & Weaver, M. S. 2019). Spiritual assessment and spiritual care offerings as a standard of care in pediatric oncology: A recommendation informed by a systematic review of the literature. Pediatric Blood & Cancer, 66(9), e27764. Web.
Timmins, F., & Caldeira, S. (2017). Assessing the spiritual needs of patients. Nursing Standard 2014+), 31(29), 47. Web.