Spirituality and Coping with Loss: End of Life Healthcare Practice - Softcover

Greenstreet, Wendy

9781785231483: Spirituality and Coping with Loss: End of Life Healthcare Practice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785231480 ISBN 13: 9781785231483

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Spirituality and Coping with Loss: End of Life Healthcare Practice describes a research study that reflects nurses’ experience of the nature of loss encountered in end of life care settings as well as the ways in which spirituality is a resource in coping in these situations. Key findings indicate how nurses’ spiritual development impacts their proficiency in spiritual care. These findings will be of interest to nurses and nurse educators as well as other healthcare professionals.

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About the Author:

Dr Wendy Greenstreet is a former Senior Lecturer in the Department of Health, Wellbeing and the Family at Canterbury Christ Church University. Wendy has 15 years’ experience of curriculum development and delivery of spirituality as a perspective of health care. Initiated in research concerning spirituality in preregistration nursing curriculum and a follow-up study 10 years later, she has addressed spirituality as part of post-registration modules concerned with the human experience of disability and palliative care. She also developed a module entitled ’Spirituality’ as a perspective of care as part of a top-up degree in health and social care. Wendy has also addressed spirituality in postgraduate modules on loss, pain management and spiritual assessment as part of a module on spirituality in palliative care at a neighbouring university. Her MPhil/PhD research was focused on spirituality as a resource in nursing practice.

Review:

"Discussion highlights are the use of the phenomenology method for addressing spirituality; a particularly enlightening historical review about spirituality within the profession of nursing, beginning with religious nursing orders up to the present day; and an engaging, comprehensive literature review of the many facets of spirituality. The heart of Greenstreet's book addresses the study's findings: nurses' individual spiritual development influences their own ability with spiritual care. Nurses not only provide spiritual care, but also need it to keep themselves restored and spiritually whole. This book is recommended for nursing educators, practitioners, and students."

--L. K. Strodtman, University of Michigan - Choice

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