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COLLEGE OF HEATH SCIENCES
STUDY GUIDE 1: SPIRITUALITY IN NURSING: STANDING ON HOLY GROUND

Tagapan, Maria Angel A.

BSN 3 Block 5

1: DEFINITION OF TERMS: Persons and events and its implication.

1. Early 1940: The Nurse: Handmaid of the Divine Physician, written in the early 1940s

2. Early and middle 20th century: Nurses receive their education in nursing schools
affiliated with one of the predominant religious denominations

3. Minnie Goodnow:As nurse historian Minnie Goodnow (1916) asserted, “Nursing is not
merely an occupation, temporary and superficial in scope; it is a great vocation”. She
added, “It nursing is do well known to be difficult that it is seldom undertaken by a
woman who has not, in the depths of her consciousness, an earnest purpose to serve
humanity”

4. Alice Price: in the introduction to a basic funda-mentals of nursing textbook, The Art, Science
and Spirit of Nursing (1954), author Alice Price observed, "Nursing is possessed of a spiritual
quality, in that its primary aim is to serve humanity, not only by giving curative care to the
bodies of the sick and injured, but by serving the needs of the mind and spirit as well"

5. Cathie Guzzetta: In identifying a model for holistic nursing, nurse clinician and
researcher Cathie Guzzetta (1988) described holistic concepts as incorporating "a
sensitive balance between art and science, analytic and intuitive skills, and the ability
and knowledge to choose from a wide variety of treatment modalities to promote
balance and inter-connectedness of body, mind and spirit" (p. 117). Thus, in the
holistic nursing model, patients' spiritual nature and needs are brought into equal
focus with their cognitive and physiologic needs.

6. Barbara Barnum: As theorist Barbara Barnum (1994) pointed out, whereas nursing's
focus during the past two decades has been on the "biopsychosocial" model of care,
more recently nurse scholars have demonstrated a renewed interest in the spiritual
dimension of caregiving (p. 114). Barnumb as-sertion is reflected in an increase in
the nursing literature in conceptual and research-based articles related to the
association between spirituality and health, illness. One example is the work of Jean
Watson (1995) who observed, "At its most basic level nursing is a human-caring,
relational profession. It exists by virtue of an ethical moral ideal, and commitment to
provide care for others"

7. Dossey: Spirituality, as related to holistic nursing, is described by Dossey (1989) as

"a broad concept that encompasses values, meaning, and purpose; one turns inward
to the human traits of honesty, love, caring, wisdom, imagination, and compassion;
existence of a quality of a higher authority, guiding spirit or transcendence that is
mystical; a flowing, dynamic balance that allows and creates healing of body- mind-
spirit; and may or may not involve organized religion."

8. Pamela Reed: Pamela Reed (1992) presented a paradigm with which to explore
spirituality in nursing by defining spirituality as "an expression of the developmental
capacity for self-transcendence"

9. Ruth Stoll: Christianity, and Islam, the concept of transcendence incorporates belief
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in God. This is reflected explicitly in the conceptualization of spirituality articulated
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Pangasinan
nurse Ruth Stoll (1989) who asserted, "Through my spirituality 1 give
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love; I respond to and appreciate God, other people, a sunset, a symphony and
spring"
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UNIVERSITY Bachelor of Science in Nursing
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10. Maria Homberg: In her doctoral dissertation entitled "Biblical Roots of Healing in
Nursing," Maria Homberg (1980) posited that an established biblical tradition
reflecting the healing power of such concepts as respect for human dignity and
positive interpersonal relationships has parallels in contemporary nursing (p. 2).
Homberg suggested that the biblical history of healing can be used by nurse
educators to support the importance of these concepts.

11: Questions on SPIRITUAL NEEDS; Pls. answer your own opinion.

1. What are you living for?

 For me, i am living for my family, my mother and my goals in life. Helping my
family specially my mother who’s taking care of me since I was baby. And i
also want to achieve my goals in life

2. Would the loss of any part or functions of your body affect your meaning and
purpose in life?
Which one? How?

 If you trust yourself, you wont let your anxiety or fear will lead just because
of your loss.

3. Would the loss of any relationship alter your meaning and purpose in life? Which
one? How

 No. If you really believe in yourself you can make it, life is so much have a
challenges to us.

4. What are some of the ways you perceive that someone loves and care about you?

 When someone telling me they love me with actions that they really do love
me. I believe in the saying that actions are better than words

5. Do you feel God loves you? What factors have made you feel as you do?

 YES. God loves us all. God have so many ways to show us how much he loves
us all.

6. What is the painful experience you have had, say sickness and you suffered much
that you even loss hope because of this sickness and how did you cope with it? ( If
not you maybe a very closed relative or a dear friend?

 The painful sickness I experienced is the last ill or the always disease I
experience, the UTI. The last time I experienced that is I am thinking to
surrender already because the headache the fever I cant take it anymore, at
first we didn’t know that it is UTI, we know that its a normal fever. Days had
passed and im still not better, and Iam getting worse, we decided to go to the
hospital, they did some laboratory test there until they said that I should be
admitted there because I have UTI. Some days i want to surrender but when
I look at my mother I always think that I should fight, this is just a uti and I
am a survivor,

Prepared by:

Dr. Priscilla R. Baun

Faculty in-charge

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