Spiritual health

Spiritual health: the next frontier.

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Spiritual Care Education of Health Care Professionals

Nurses and health care professionals should have an active role in meeting the spiritual needs of patients in collaboration with the family and the chaplain. Literature criticizes the impaired holistic care because the spiritual dimension is often overlooked by health care professionals. This could be due to feelings of incompetence due to lack of education on spiritual care; lack of inter-prof...

Nursing's mission: spiritual dimensions of health care.

Spiritual health, the fourth dimension: a public health perspective.

Spiritual Wellness, Holistic Health, and the Practice of Health Education

The current practice of health education often fails to harmonize with the multidimensional, dynamic, and functional nature of health as generally defined within our profession. As a stepchild of the medical and public health professions, we have inherited a preoccupation with physical health as the most worthy outcome measure for most of our programs. Yet other dimensions of health seem equall...