Spiritual Assessment Paper
Spiritual Needs Assessment Spiritual assessment tools are essential for evaluating spiritual needs to a patient. The intention is to evaluate patient spiritual and psychological needs. Finding these tools is not an easy task because it is the best way in which patient spiritual needs can be observed. However, spiritual assessment tools are use to collect information that will promote the healing process of the patient. This paper will emphasize on the creation of the tools with five questions and how the questions were utilize a known patient. This paper will also allow me to understand how spiritual assessment can help in meeting patient needs. In order to carry out a significant assessment, there should be a technique and normal way of approaching the patient. That means a respect towards someone who is ready to describe his or her status as either religious or nonreligious.
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What are my questions and how do I intend to formulate it is the bone of contention.
Standing before a patient in an arrogant manner is totally unacceptable by a healing hospital. Caregiver cannot think he or she is dealing with a machine but a person who is in the image of God. Nancy West, executive director of Nashville’s Siloam Clinic that serve the poor says, “We like to think of each patient as the face of Christ” (Chapman, 2007). However, as a professional caregiver, my duty is to collect these tools in a cordially manner, briefly, and not in an expansion to other area of life but only what covers critical part that might be essential on the patient’s health and well-being. Lancashire Teaching Hospitals (n.d). After going through many spiritual reading and research, I came to the conclusion that the following five questions will be valuable in assessing spirituality of a patient. Thereafter, I have the opportunity to ask my patient the assessment tools
questions:
1. Are you comfortable to discuss your spiritual or religion matters with me? If yes, can you tell me what religion your family practices when you were young and how religious were your parent?
Patient: I will be glad to discuss my spirituality with you; yes I was born into a catholic family but my parents are not committed to it.
2. Do you believe in God and how can you describe God in your personal life?
I have a strong believe in God Almighty, he is the reason while am still alive. God has protected my live up till this day. He knows best, he loves me, and he is going to heal me. I always believe in Psalms 23, “which says, the Lord is my Shepard, and I fear no evil” Psalms 23:1
3. Do you believe in prayer? How do you pray? And has your prayer been answered before?
Like I said earlier, I believe in God and his son Jesus Christ. He is the love of my life. I pray to God every day, and I believe he always answer my prayers. I want you to try my God, because he is faithful. He will never leave us nor forsake us.
4. How important is spirituality or religion to you, and how does it help you in time of needs?
My God is good; “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19). I do not play with my spiritual life. It is very important to me. I know I am sick and unhealthy, but I know that my God will heal me.
5. Do you believe in community religion and which church do you attend before or now? Do you need a church or chaplain?
My Christian religion approved that it is good to have a worship place, and I do go to church every Sunday. It is also good for me to receive prayers from my pastor. I will surely appreciate it if you provide me a chaplain. Thanks and God bless you.
1. Are you comfortable to discuss your spiritual or religion matters with me? If yes, can you tell me what religion your family practices when you were young and how religious were your parent?
2. Do you believe in God and how can you describe God in your personal life?
3. Do you believe in prayer? How do you pray? And has your prayer been answered before?
4. How important is spirituality or religion to you, and how does it help you in time of needs?
5. Do you believe in community religion and which church do you attend before or now? Do you need a church or chaplain?
My assessment tool questions came out with the following result: What went on well with this communication between a provider and a patient is the ability to know and understand patient spiritual needs. This is very important, and from this assessment tool questions, I got to understand that patient’s spirituality is an access for healing. It gives them more confidence toward emotional downfall, and it encourages healing process. It radically or miraculously opens a sense of understanding for suffering and healing. I learned that people are ready to open their mind towards their spirituality. In addition, many people believe that their God is the healer and that the healthcare providers are just on a mission towards this process. “In healing hospital, every caregiver should be trained and supported in providing spiritual and emotional need of their patient” (Chapman, 2007 p.78). I understand I need to learn more about other people’s spirituality and religion. To have an access to people’s privacy is not quite easy. I want to have wisdom in which I can use to approach patient with emotional needs. I want to understand when this need is necessary, and how to approach my patient without offending them. Not all patients are the same, and challenges might come without notice during assessment tool. I understand that some patients are not in the mood to talk about their religion or spirituality, some take it as offense, thinking that caregivers are not competent enough to talk to them about spirituality. Other challenge is that I do not know the whole answer to certain questions from the assessment tools. However, I think the best way is to study diversities in the world religion and respect people whenever they have a different opinion towards spirituality. My experience in this spirituality home work is very impressive; I have learned many things concerning people’s religion and how important they are to them. This tool helps me to understand that spirituality and emotional needs are the key to patient healing in certain circumstances. In conclusion, Spirituality can be measured as one of the patient's vital signs and should be routinely screened and assessed. (Lunder, et al, 2011) I think it is the right time to apply spirituality in all our health organization because it will produce positive emotion to the healing process. Most religions do not go against medical procedures, but they also believe if God say yes nobody can say no. In addition, everything works well for those who have their trust in the Lord.
What are my questions and how do I intend to formulate it is the bone of contention.
Standing before a patient in an arrogant manner is totally unacceptable by a healing hospital. Caregiver cannot think he or she is dealing with a machine but a person who is in the image of God. Nancy West, executive director of Nashville’s Siloam Clinic that serve the poor says, “We like to think of each patient as the face of Christ” (Chapman, 2007). However, as a professional caregiver, my duty is to collect these tools in a cordially manner, briefly, and not in an expansion to other area of life but only what covers critical part that might be essential on the patient’s health and well-being. Lancashire Teaching Hospitals (n.d). After going through many spiritual reading and research, I came to the conclusion that the following five questions will be valuable in assessing spirituality of a patient. Thereafter, I have the opportunity to ask my patient the assessment tools
questions:
1. Are you comfortable to discuss your spiritual or religion matters with me? If yes, can you tell me what religion your family practices when you were young and how religious were your parent?
Patient: I will be glad to discuss my spirituality with you; yes I was born into a catholic family but my parents are not committed to it.
2. Do you believe in God and how can you describe God in your personal life?
I have a strong believe in God Almighty, he is the reason while am still alive. God has protected my live up till this day. He knows best, he loves me, and he is going to heal me. I always believe in Psalms 23, “which says, the Lord is my Shepard, and I fear no evil” Psalms 23:1
3. Do you believe in prayer? How do you pray? And has your prayer been answered before?
Like I said earlier, I believe in God and his son Jesus Christ. He is the love of my life. I pray to God every day, and I believe he always answer my prayers. I want you to try my God, because he is faithful. He will never leave us nor forsake us.
4. How important is spirituality or religion to you, and how does it help you in time of needs?
My God is good; “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19). I do not play with my spiritual life. It is very important to me. I know I am sick and unhealthy, but I know that my God will heal me.
5. Do you believe in community religion and which church do you attend before or now? Do you need a church or chaplain?
My Christian religion approved that it is good to have a worship place, and I do go to church every Sunday. It is also good for me to receive prayers from my pastor. I will surely appreciate it if you provide me a chaplain. Thanks and God bless you.
1. Are you comfortable to discuss your spiritual or religion matters with me? If yes, can you tell me what religion your family practices when you were young and how religious were your parent?
2. Do you believe in God and how can you describe God in your personal life?
3. Do you believe in prayer? How do you pray? And has your prayer been answered before?
4. How important is spirituality or religion to you, and how does it help you in time of needs?
5. Do you believe in community religion and which church do you attend before or now? Do you need a church or chaplain?
My assessment tool questions came out with the following result: What went on well with this communication between a provider and a patient is the ability to know and understand patient spiritual needs. This is very important, and from this assessment tool questions, I got to understand that patient’s spirituality is an access for healing. It gives them more confidence toward emotional downfall, and it encourages healing process. It radically or miraculously opens a sense of understanding for suffering and healing. I learned that people are ready to open their mind towards their spirituality. In addition, many people believe that their God is the healer and that the healthcare providers are just on a mission towards this process. “In healing hospital, every caregiver should be trained and supported in providing spiritual and emotional need of their patient” (Chapman, 2007 p.78). I understand I need to learn more about other people’s spirituality and religion. To have an access to people’s privacy is not quite easy. I want to have wisdom in which I can use to approach patient with emotional needs. I want to understand when this need is necessary, and how to approach my patient without offending them. Not all patients are the same, and challenges might come without notice during assessment tool. I understand that some patients are not in the mood to talk about their religion or spirituality, some take it as offense, thinking that caregivers are not competent enough to talk to them about spirituality. Other challenge is that I do not know the whole answer to certain questions from the assessment tools. However, I think the best way is to study diversities in the world religion and respect people whenever they have a different opinion towards spirituality. My experience in this spirituality home work is very impressive; I have learned many things concerning people’s religion and how important they are to them. This tool helps me to understand that spirituality and emotional needs are the key to patient healing in certain circumstances. In conclusion, Spirituality can be measured as one of the patient's vital signs and should be routinely screened and assessed. (Lunder, et al, 2011) I think it is the right time to apply spirituality in all our health organization because it will produce positive emotion to the healing process. Most religions do not go against medical procedures, but they also believe if God say yes nobody can say no. In addition, everything works well for those who have their trust in the Lord.