An Administrator's Guide to Implementing Spiritual Care into Nursing Practice

By Bonnie Weaver Battey

As a member of the governing board, administrator, or educator in a health care agency, you are responsible for helping nurses to establish holistic care. A plan is offered based on theories, supporting research, and the study of spirituality in healing. This is not to be considered the final answer, but to provide one perspective which may serve as a common basis for developing a coordinated plan most appropriate to your agencys situation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 8, 2008
• ISBN: 9781469103228

Bonnie Weaver Battey

Author’s Biography” Bonnie Weaver Battey, Ph.D., R.N., completed her undergraduate work at Valparaiso University and Wagner College, receiving a BS degree in Nursing, a MSN in Nursing Education from Vanderbilt University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, majoring in Speech Communication and Human Relations. Dr. Battey has served as faculty and administrator of associate degree, baccalaureate, and master’s programs in nursing. She initiated an ADN and a BSN program in nursing, and served as an accreditation visitor over 25 years for undergraduate and graduate levels of nursing programs. Dr. Battey has authored numerous articles, chapters, several books and authored four computer instruction programs for distance education. as well as given numerous presentations at professional and lay conferences on a variety of issues in nursing and research. She has served on committees for state boards of nursing and nursing associations, as well as a volunteer Parish Nurse and lay chaplain. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International, the American Holistic Nurses’ Association, and the Society for Spirituality, Theology and Health.

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An Administrator’s Guide

to Implementing Spiritual

Care into Nursing Practice

Bonnie Weaver Battey, Ph.D., R.N.

Copyright © 2008 by Bonnie Weaver Battey, Ph.D., R.N.

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Contents

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Preface

Author’s Biography

Introduction

The Broken System

Need for Change

A Plan for Nursing

The Rubric

Spirituality Defined

The Role and Function of the Nurse

Spiritual Care

Research Based Nursing Care

A Test Score

The Humanizing Factor

Implementing Guidelines

Conclusion

References Cited

Other References of Interest

Attachments

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Spirituality and spiritual care are essential to the very existence of holistic healthcare today. The body, the mind, and the spirit are interrelated, interwoven, and interdependent forces of the human being. All three dimensions work together as one whole being. It is impossible to understand one dimension without understanding the other two dimensions. Likewise, each dimension cannot be cared for without caring for all three. For an example, when the body and mind are treated physiologically and psychologically, the clinician needs to be aware that a person’s mind affects the body and the person’s body affects the mind. Similarly, the spirit, the third dimension of a person, affects the body and mind, and the body and mind affects the spirit. Unfortunately, the spiritual dimension of a person’s life has been under speculation for hundreds of years and is still a mystery today. There are at least three reasons for this. First, the scientific and