Decisions are made without thought. This could cause stress to build and affect the way people deal with life. Everyone needs to stop and take a few minutes to calm down. So if life is stressing you out, it’s time to slow down. Meditation can help relieve stress and worries. The practice of meditation is a way to be still for a while and let our minds become focused until we become calm enough to deal with the daily pressures of life.…
This site is full of techniques, as well as Buddhist, and other religions’ ways to remain calm and at peace. It demonstrates how to hold your body as well as how to breathe for each form of meditation. It gives recommendations and lists of books that can be used.…
Spirituality is an essential component of patient assessment. Healthcare providers must need to know that genuine feelings, then they can truthfully discover and recognize a patient’s spiritual troubles. By knowing the patient spiritual needs, it can make a patient health care understanding more optimistic as it supports them cope with sickness and get good outcome. Not only health care workers should concentrate on providing physical treatments to their patients, they should also deliver a spiritual assessment as well. This can be a lead to a new method of healing which is a further holistic approach. The joint commission recommended the Spiritual assessment programs (2005) which supports workers in expressive…
Mindfulness-based Interventions in the treatment of Generalised Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder and Substance-use Disorders: An Evidence-Based Practice Paper…
Spirituality coaching (Livingston 2013) deals with integrating a client’s religious beliefs in coaching. This particular has to have advance education in a client’s religious background. A coach could specific one particular religious to integrate in coaching. The suggestion for this coaching is to have an extensive background in various religions or the coach could capitalize on his/her personal…
In "Meditation 17" by John Donne, Donne uses many different methods of trying to get his message out. By using metaphors, images, and paradoxes Donne gets his message out but in a perplexing way. In order to understand what Donne is saying, this passage must read over and analyzed sentence by sentence to really see the true meaning of the excerpt.…
A packet that included 3 surveys in which no identification information, was attached to the payroll envelopes of the eligible nurses. These surveys took into consideration demographics, personal/ environmental characteristics, coping strategies, and exposure to traumatic events. The Professional Quality of Life Scale and the Penn Inventory were the instruments to conduct this research. The final results based on a total of 128 participants, 35.9% had scores consistent with burnout, 27.3% reported compassion fatigue, 7% reported secondary traumatic stress, and 78.9% had high compassion satisfaction. Common characteristics correlating with burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress were negative coworker relationships, use of medicinals, and higher number of hours per shift. High compassion satisfaction correlated with greater strength of supports, higher participation in exercise, use of meditation, and positive coworker relationships. Caring for trauma patients may lead to BO, CF, and STS; identifying predictors of these can inform the development of interventions to mitigate or minimize BO, CF, and STS in trauma nurses. (Hinderer, et.al,…
Ellis, H. K., & Narayanasamy, A. (2009). An investigation into the role of spirituality in nursing. British Journal of Nursing, 18, 886-890.…
Typically, mindfulness associates with improved stress regulation, empathy, positive affect, self-esteem, well-being and reduced fear of being judged by others. Mindfulness has also been linked to improve cognitive functioning, including enhanced task concentration, working memory capacity and intelligence as well as the ability to switch perspectives, the inhibition of distracting and irrelevant thoughts and feelings.…
“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.” As related by Henry David Thoreau, one of the most famous contributors to the concept of civil disobedience, there are some conditions regarding unjust laws that must be changed for the welfare of the people. If this is something the government cannot understand or agree with, it is the responsibility of the people themselves to work to the best of their abilities to change them. Most commonly, this is done through marches, hunger strikes, or sit-ins, all intended to be peaceful and nonviolent, to raise awareness for the cause being protested. Although there are some flaws regarding this system, it is a necessity in our society in order to progress and improve.…
Malinski, V. (2002). Developin ga nursing perspective on spirituality and healing [Article]. PubMed. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12387224…
According to Taylor (2002), spiritual awareness is important for a nurse or a nursing student if he or she wants to be effective in healing or as a provider of spiritual care. This is because religious and spiritual dimensions of life influences the lives of many people (Wong, Hockenberry, Wilson, Perry, & Lowdermilk, 2006). By assessing the spiritual aspects of patients and families, nurses strive to meet the spiritual needs of individuals, which provide strength through holistic nursing care (Wong et al., 2007). Therefore, spiritual assessments are an important component in nursing practice.…
Galek, K., Flannelly, K., Vane, A., & Galek, R. (2006, April). Assessing patient 's spiritual Needs [Electronic version]. Holistic Nursing Practice, 19(2), 62-69.…
Foremost, I believe that nursing is an extension of the mission of Jesus Christ. “Christian faith provides a servant-leadership model for nursing practice based upon the role model of Christ as a servant leader.” (betterbirthday, 2012) Secondly, I am a strong believer in continuing education in nursing. The bible says “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (2 Timothy 2:15, KJV) Not only should we study the word of God, but we should also study the subjects related to our divine calling. Holistic nursing is another value that resonates with my nursing practice. Holistic nursing focuses on mind, body and spirit. (Black, 2014) For example, a professional nurse who encounters an angry post-surgical patient and states “You seem to be upset, would you like to talk about what is making you angry?” is practicing holistic nursing. Rather than taking the patient’s anger personally, she is providing emotional support to a person who is likely anxious and…
What is the purpose of Dharma practice and mind cultivation? A lot of people have the answer to this question: to be reborn in the Western Paradise. However, specifically, to what extent should one cultivate so that he can be reborn in the Western Paradise? How can this be achieved? What will happen if we could not attain the expected level of cultivation? Many may not be able to answer these. In fact, it is a very lofty goal to be reborn in the Western Paradise, and therefore not an easy feat. One familiar example is examination. After a person dies, he/she will have to go through an assessment to determine the path along which his/her soul travels after death - whether to the netherworld…