Offers an accessible, comprehensive and topical introduction to spirituality and its application to healthcare

Each chapter provides practical advice and tips, as well as exercises, examples and links to further reading and interactive content

Serves as a valuable pocket guide for nurses, who can quickly and easily consult the book as needed

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Fiona Timmins is an Associate Professor at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin. She has more than 140 publications in peer-reviewed journals and she has published 10 nursing/healthcare textbooks. She has presented widely internationally including many Key Note presentations and workshops. She is currently  Editor in Chief of the Journal of Nursing Management, acts as a reviewer for several peer reviewed journals, sitting on the editorial board of three of these. Her research interests include professional nursing issues, nurse education, spirituality and reflection.

Sílvia Caldeira is an Invited Assistant Professor at the Institute of Health Sciences, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon. Her work focuses on spirituality in health, particularly in nursing care. She completed a master in Bioethics about the ethical imperative of the inclusion of spirituality in nursing care, and a PhD about the validation of nursing diagnosis spiritual distress from NANDA International, Inc. She has already published a book in Portuguese about spirituality in Nursing and several papers in peer reviewed international journals. She acts as reviewer for several peer reviewed journals and is member of many international groups an associations concerning spirituality in healthcare. 

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This book provides a condensed but comprehensive up-to-date overview of spirituality and its application to health care. The need for healthcare workers to provide spiritual care or meet patients' spiritual needs is gaining increasing importance in nursing and midwifery policy at local, national and international level. Internationally, there is a growing belief in spirituality as a valid dimension of care.

The book highlights a range of examples and case studies facilitating the practical application of the recommendations discussed. In addition to presenting new psychological perspectives, various activities throughout will encourage readers to form their own opinion on the issues covered. The suggestions for further reading and useful websites will also help readers interested in exploring specific areas in more depth.

Combining contributions by authors from various disciplines, the book offers a valuable tool for qualified professional healthcare workers in practice, including nurses, social workers, doctors and chaplains. With its handy format, this practical pocket guide offers a faithful companion for practitioners.

Inhalt

Part I
The role of spirituality in healthcare

1. What is Spirituality?
   Elizabeth Weathers
   PhD BSc PGCTLHE RGN, Postdoctoral Researcher, University College Galway, Galway, Ireland

2. The Psychology of Spirituality in Healthcare Practice Settings
   Jan M.A. de Vries
   PhD, MSc, BSc, Assistant Professor and Psychology Subject Leader, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

3. Spiritual Assessment in Healthcare
Wilf McSherry
PhD, RGN, FRCN, Professor in Dignity of Care for Older People, Faculty of Health Sciences Staffordshire University United Kingdom and part-time Professor Haraldsplass Deaconess University College, Bergen, Norway 4. Spirituality is a Public Health Issue
Richard Egan
BA (Hons) PhD DPH (Otago) MPhil (Massey) DipTchg (Wgtn), Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion, Dunedin School of Medicine, New Zealand

5. Spirituality and Health
   Harold G. Koenig
   RN, MHSc, MD, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Associate Professor of Medicine; Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

6. Spirituality and Childbirth
   Colm O'Boyle
   PhD, MSc, RM, RGN, Associate Professor of Midwifery, Vivienne Brady PhD, MSc, RM, RGN, Associate Professor of Midwifery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Part II
Providers and applications
7. Providing Spiritual Care
René van Leeuwen
PhD, RN,* *Lecturer in Health Care and Spirituality, Reformed University for Applied Sciences, Grasdorpstraat, The Netherlands

8. The role of the nurse in providing spiritual care
   Sílvia Caldeira
   PhD MSc PGDip, Assistant Professor/Researcher Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Health, Institute of Health Sciences, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon

9. The Role of the Healthcare Chaplain
   Rev. Dr. Christopher Swift
   PhD, Head of Chaplaincy at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK

10. Case Studies supporting spiritual needs during challenging situations:
    10.1. Maternal/Paternal suffering 
    Renee Dilworth
    Healthcare Chaplain, Dublin, Ireland
    10.2. Loss in Intellectual Disability 
    Joy Powell
    Healthcare Chaplain, Dublin, Ireland

11. Teaching and Learning about Spirituality in Healthcare Practice Settings
    Jacqueline Whelan
    MSc, MA, BNS (Hons), RNT RCN RGN Academic Associate in Logotherapy, Assistant Professor, The School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Part III
Cultural issues

12. Working with diversity
    Barbara Pesut
    Canada Research Chair, Associate Professor School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Canada

13. New Monasticism and ritual
    Bernadette Flanagan
    PhD MA HDE DipITEd BATh, Professor, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland

14. Conclusion