Spiritual Dimensions of Nursing Practice

Author:   Verna Benner Carson ,  Harold G Koenig
Publisher:   Templeton Foundation Press,U.S.
Edition:   Revised edition
ISBN:  

9781599471457


Pages:   416
Publication Date:   01 October 2008
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you.

Our Price $92.27 Quantity:  
Add to Cart

Share |

Spiritual Dimensions of Nursing Practice


Add your own review!

Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Verna Benner Carson ,  Harold G Koenig
Publisher:   Templeton Foundation Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Templeton Foundation Press,U.S.
Edition:   Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.594kg
ISBN:  

9781599471457


ISBN 10:   1599471450
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   01 October 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you.

Table of Contents

Preface / vii Part I Spirituality and the Nursing Profession / 1 1. Spirituality: Defining the Indefinable and Reviewing Its Place in Nursing / 3 Verna Benner Carson and Ruth Stoll 2. Religion, Spirituality, and Health: Understanding the Mechanisms / 33 Harold G. Koenig Part II Spirituality, Religion, and Health Care: Examining the Relationships / 63 3. Theism and Health Care / 65 Verna Benner Carson 4. Eastern Pantheism and Health Care / 86 Verna Benner Carson 5. The Legal Issues: Religion versus Health Care / 101 Patricia C. McMullen and Nayna D. C. Philipsen Part III Application of Theory to Spiritual Needs: What Does Spiritual Care Look Like? / 123 6. Spirituality: Identifying and Meeting Spiritual Needs / 125 Verna Benner Carson 7. The Psychospiritual Lives of Ill or Suffering Children and Adolescents: What We Should Know, What We Should Do / 154 Pat Fosarelli 8. Adult Spirituality for Persons with Chronic Illness / 193 Patricia E. Murphy, George Fitchett, and Andrea L. Canada 9. Spirituality and Elder Care / 236 Thomas E. DeLoughry 10. Spirituality in Death and Bereavement / 279 Miriam Jacik Part IV The Thread of Spirituality through Community, Ethics Work, and Education / 309 11. Spiritual Care in Communities / 311 Nancy Christine Shoemaker 12. Ethical Decision Making and Spirituality / 330 Gary Batchelor 13. Spirituality within Educational and Work Environments / 372 Elizabeth Arnold Contributors / 405 Index

Reviews

Author Information

Verna Benner Carson, PhD, is the president of C&V Senior Care Specialists, Inc, a consulting firm that provides clinical training combined with operational and marketing support for two programs she developed: “Becoming an Alzheimer’s Whisperer” and “Road to Wholeness Behavioral Health.” She is also a clinical nurse specialist in psychiatric mental health nursing, an associate professor at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland, where she teaches undergraduates the importance of loving the patients that God puts in our care, and the author of eight other books, including Spiritual Caregiving. Harold G. Koenig, MD completed his undergraduate education at Stanford University, his medical school training at the University of California at San Francisco, and his geriatric medicine, psychiatry, and biostatistics training at Duke University Medical Center. He is on the faculty at Duke as professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and associate professor of medicine. Dr. Koenig is also director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health at Duke University Medical Center, and is Distinguished Adjunct Professor at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Koenig has published extensively in the fields of mental health, geriatrics, and religion, with over 350 scientific peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and nearly 40 books in print or in preparation. He has given invited testimony to both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives on the role of religion in public health.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

Aorrng

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List