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Define Agnosticism
Belief that God's reality is unknown and unknowable.
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Define Atheism
Denial of God's existence.
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Define Theism
Belief that God's reality is persnoal without a body, perfect in all thingsand creator and sustainer of the universe.
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Define Faith
- More than a belief: it is the way that a person acts out beliefs in his or her life.
- A belief in something or a relationship with a higher power.
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Define Spiritual well-being
A condition marked by an affirmation of life, peace, harmony, and a sense of interconnectedness with God, self, community and environment that nurtures and celebrates wholeness.
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Define Spiritual need
- Vary according to each author's belief system.
- Represents a normal expression of a person's inner being that seeks meaning in all experience and a dynamic relationship with self, others and to the supreme other as the person defines it.
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Define Spiritual dimension:
A quality that goes beyond religious affiliation, that stries for inspiration, reverence, awe, meaning and purpose, even for those who do not believe in any god.
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Define Spirituality.
The quality or essence that pervades, integrates and transcends one's biopsychosocial nature.
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Define Holism:
The position of viewing the universe as a system of harmonious inter-connectedness rather than a sum of isolated parts, integrates the mind and body and emphasizes spirit.
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Define Spiritual Care
A mutual potentially healing or integrating process in which the client's spiritual needs are met.
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5 values between nurses and clients
- Pluralism-different beliefs and creeds
- Fear-not being able to handle situation
- Awareness of own spiritual quest-own life.
- Confusion-differences
- Basic Attitudes-relative to illness aging suffering.
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Subjective Data 4 areas of Normal pattern Identification:
- Concept of God or Diety
- Source of hope and strength
- Religious practices and rituals
- Relationship between spiritual beliefs and state of health.
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Spiritual Distress is:
impaired ability to experience and integrate meaning and purpose in life through the individual's connectedness with self, others, art, music, literature, nature, or power greater than oneself.
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Spiritual Nursing Diagnoses are;
- Under the domain Life Principle in Taxonomy II.
- I.Values
- II.Beliefs.
- IIIValues/Beliefs/Action Congruence.
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Cultural Competancy is:
Nurses understand and address the entire cultural context of each client within the realm of the care they deliver.
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Acculturation occurs when:
A clieth is living in a new dominate culture and adopts those patterns of behavior.
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Values are:
- A set of rules by which individual in a culture live.
- Guide decision-making and behavior
- Develop unconsciously during childhood.
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Subculture is based on:
- Age
- Gender
- Sexual Orientation
- Marital Status
- Family structure
- Income
- Education level
- Religious Views
- Life Experiences
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Intregal components of spirituality are:
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Intrapersonal spirituality is
within one's self
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Interpersonal spirituality is
With others and the environment
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Transpersonal spirituality is
With an unseen higher power.
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Define Hope
A concept that includes anticipation and optimism and provides comfort during times of crisis.
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Population demographics of culture include
- Number of member in a practice area.
- Average educaitonal and economic levels
- Typical occupations
- Commonly practiced religious spiritual beliefs
- Prevalence of illnesses/health issues
- Most commonly held health, wellness, illness and death beliefs.
- Social organization
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Culturally sensitive means:
Nurses are knowledgeable about the cultures prevalent in their area of practice.
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Culturally Appropriate means:
Nurses apply their knowledge of a clients culture to their care of delivery.
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Major Characteristics of Spriituality include:
- Sense of Wholeness
- Harmony within one's self
- Harmony with others
- Harmony with God (higher power)
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Sociocultural background provides
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Noncompliance is:
The behavior of persons or caregiver failing to coincide with a health-promoting or therapeutic plan agreed upon by the perosn and healthcare professional
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Decisional Conflict is:
Uncertainty about course of action to be taken when choice among competeing actions involves risks, loss, or challenge to perosnal life values.
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