Exploring Spiritual Concepts for Spirituality Education in Secondary School

Spirituality and spiritual care in in the context of nursing education in South Africa.

BACKGROUND In order for nursing education to prepare nurses for holistic patient care, it is critical that educators become more aware of the religious and spiritual dimensions in patient care and be able to provide adequate knowledge and skills for nurses to offer spiritually-based care in an ethical way. Furthermore, spiritual care is an essential component in the nursing context, as nurses h...

Assessing African American Spirituality With Spiritual Ecomaps

While there is increasing awareness that spirituality is a central dimension of human existence, there are few assessment instruments that operationalize spiritual strengths in a clinically useful manner. Further, instruments tailored specifically for African Americans, the population for whom spirituality may be most salient, have been almost completely lacking in the literature. Corresponding...

Spirituality and family nursing: spiritual assessment and interventions for families.

AIM The aim of this paper is to propose a guideline for spiritual assessment and interventions explicitly for families, while considering each family member's unique spirituality. BACKGROUND Spirituality's positive effect is pervasive in health care and in the lives of many families; therefore, there is a need to integrate spiritual assessment and interventions in total family care. DISCUSS...

A multimedia system for tele-education in Secondary school

Introduction Main aims and functionality of the first release Experimenting the system Towards a new co-operative learning environment Conclusions References Abstract Last year we developed and tried out a system to allow students and teachers, distributed on the Net, to carry out learning/teaching activities. For this purpose we defined and implemented a new Internet protocol to support cooper...

Exploring Spirituality in Systemic Supervision