Integrating spirituality into patient care: An essential element of modern healthcare system

Integrating spirituality into patient care: an essential element of person‑centered care.

Spirituality and health is a growing field of healthcare. It grew out of courses in spirituality and health developed for medical students in the United States. Research in this area over the last 30 years has also formed an evidence base for spirituality and health. Studies have demonstrated an association between spiritual beliefs and values and a variety of healthcare outcomes. More recent r...

Integrating Spirituality into Primary Care

Continuity of care: an essential element of modern general practice?

For a variety of reasons, GPs are working more and more with unfamiliar patients. The proposed new British GP contract stipulates that in future patients will register with a practice, rather than with a named GP and a recent new definition of general practice did not mention continuing care. There has been persistent confusion about the definition of continuity of care. Evidence for the benefi...

Integrating spirituality into undergraduate nursing curricula.

Nursing programs have done a commendable job keeping pace with the rapid advances in disease management. Yet, spirituality has received far less attention in nursing curricula (Keefe, 2005) and nursing students often do not have a strong foundation in this area. The purpose of this project was to integrate spirituality into the undergraduate nursing curricula and measure student outcomes relate...

Spirituality in HIV+ Patient Care

S p ir it u a li ty i n H IV + P a ti e n t C a re Spirituality in HIV+ Patient Care Joni L. Utley, MA & Amy Wachholtz, PhD, MDiv Volume 8 Issue 3 2011 Melia1 was a 39 year old, mother of 2 young children. She was actively involved in her church and had strong Christian beliefs. Melia was married to her husband for 15 years when her husband left her for another woman, and Melia discovered that ...