Spiritual-Needs Assessment: Fibromyalgia

Spiritual-Needs Assessment

Spiritual-Needs Assessment The patient that I interviewed is a 38 year old woman who suffers from Fibromyalgia. She is married and has no children. She has been dealing with this diagnosis for 5 years and receives treatment on a regular basis. She has a strong Christian faith and believes in the power of prayer. She also believes that God only gives you challenges that he knows that you can learn and grown from and never too much that you cannot handle it.
Five (5) Questions I asked my female patient five 5 select questions that I felt would balance out what her belief system was along with how she could cope with her medical diagnosis and treatment. The Questions were: “How would the patient describe their philosophy of life? Who or what provides the patient with
If the nurse is not comfortable in their own beliefs and not have an open mind that they might not hear or be comfortable that the patient might need to say a prayer to whom they believe to gather their strength to get and walk after hip surgery or before they hear the pending news that could change their life such as “Cancer - yes or no?” and how they cope with that answer. That prayer or reading from their scripture that they believe in before they do a certain task could provide them strength to get through all the bad times. Provide them the peace of mind to push forward to heal themselves from the illness that they have or deal with not being able to heal and make the necessary arrangements for their pending death if