Spiritual, Religious, and Cultural Aspects of Care

Series edited by Betty R. Ferrell and Edited by Betty R. Ferrell

HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals

Addresses how to conduct a spiritual assessment of patients and families, spiritual interventions, how to ensure culture guides the plan of care, how to find meaning in illness, and hope and its influence on the dying process
Highlights nurses' role are the center of the palliative care team
Published in conjunction with the Hospice and Palliative Nursing Association

Spiritual, Religious, and Cultural Aspects of Care

Series edited by Betty R. Ferrell and Edited by Betty R. Ferrell

HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals

Description

Spiritual, Religious, and Cultural Aspects of Care is the fifth volume in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series. Chapters address how to conduct a spiritual assessment of patients and families, spiritual interventions including compassionate presence, listening deeply, bearing witness, and being compassionate, how to partner with the patient and family to ensure culture guides the plan of care, how to find meaning in illness, the many dimensions of hope and its influence on the dying process. The content of the concise, clinically focused volumes in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series is one resource for nurses preparing for specialty certification exams and provides a quick-reference in daily practice. Plentiful tables and patient teaching points make these volumes useful resources for nurses.

Spiritual, Religious, and Cultural Aspects of Care

Series edited by Betty R. Ferrell and Edited by Betty R. Ferrell

HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals

Spiritual, Religious, and Cultural Aspects of Care

Series edited by Betty R. Ferrell and Edited by Betty R. Ferrell

HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals

Author Information

Betty R. Ferrell is the Director and Professor of Nursing Research and Education and City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in Duarte, California.

Contributors:

Rev. Pamela Baird, AS
End-of-Life Practitioner
Seasons of Life
Arcadia, California

Tami Borneman, RN, MSN, CNS, FPCN
Senior Research Specialist
Nursing Research and Education
City of Hope National Medical Center
Duarte, California

Katherine Brown-Saltzman, RN, MA
Clinical Specialist in Palliative Care
UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles, California

Valerie T. Cotter, DrNP, AGPCNP-BC, FAANP
Advanced Senior Lecturer
Director of Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Anessa M. Foxwell, MSN, CRNP
Palliative Care Service
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Elizabeth Johnston Taylor, PhD, RN
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, California

Polly Mazanec, PhD, ACNP-BC, AOCN, FPCN
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio

Joan T. Panke, MA, APN, ACHPN
Palliative Consultant/Palliative Care NP
Arlington, Virginia