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Reflection and Spirituality in the Practice of Nursing

   

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Reflection and Spirituality in the practice of nursing2Reflection and spiritualityThe concept of spirituality has diverse meanings and is put in use in different fields, nursing being one of them. It is that sense of personality which assists one search the meaning of life and try and seek peace and harmony (Savel & Cindy, 2014). Older people and people with health problems have a challenge in stability and perspective of life’s well-being state and thus they make use of religion and spirituality to get that sense of life. Spiritual care has positive effects on care giving by nurses since they embrace the virtue of providing spiritual care and putting it in practice.Zehtab & Adib-Hajbaghery (2014) suggest that sspiritual guidelines in nursing are classified into two main areas, religious and non-religious. Religious spiritual intervention of nurses entails the main process of treating the patients in their religious beliefs and providing them with ways of getting connected to God and upholding their values and beliefs and taking them before religious leaders and other clergies. Non-religious on the other hand refers to the availability of the nurses for the patient and their family.Despite the fact that everyone expects the virtue instilled, nurses have shown the need to have to learn how to provide spiritual care at all times. The knowledge instilled aims at making nurses become able to provide spiritual care. However, this might be affected by someone’s character and professionalism[CITATION LBu12 \l 1033 ]. There are reflective methods of teaching such as group discussions, keeping diary records, taking role-plays and analyzing critical incidences. Online discussions and research also allows students to learn more beyond class timeand self-reflection are very important. In fact, these reflective methods can minimize the rift between the theoretical and practical aspects of spiritual care.

Reflection and Spirituality in the practice of nursing3Religiosity is connected with specific rites perceived as sacred while spirituality is the sense of understanding a human being by their sense of life. Aging in human beings comes with all the dramatic changes physically, emotionally and even socially. Caring for the elderly is very important and can be administered by a nurse. Aging is accompanied by the decline in almost every area of life in human beings and physical changes, emotional and social crises are bound tocome up[CITATION JAt14 \l 1033 ]. Research has shown that certain exercising spiritual activities can cause influence through positive emotions such as love, hope, self-esteem and forgiveness.Utilization of Johnson’s Behavioral Systems ModelThis is a model used in nursing and it enables nurses to foster efficient and effective behavioral functioning of a patient to prevent sicknesses. The patient is treated as a behavioral system with the following behavioral sub-systems: achievement related, sexual, aggression, elimination, ingestion, affiliation and dependency. It is always the job of a nurse to treat the patient to their normal state.Human beings are viewed as having two major systems that is the biological and behavioral systems. Therefore, it is assumed that the role of medicine is to deal with the biological system while nurses focus on the behavioral system. The human system is behavioral in that it strives to adjust according to the prevailing conditions to a steady-state condition of adaptation[ CITATION Mat14 \l 1033 ]. Environment includes all elements in the surrounding up to and including internal stresses. Health in the biological system is the degree of normality or constancy in the behavior. Behavioral system shows adjustments and various adaptations successful to some degree. Adaptation is fully efficient and effective state.Johnson’s model focuses on the individual. The act of dividing the behavioral system intoseven subsystems used in the process of examining a patient. Nursing is concerned with a human

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