Exam 21: Spiritual Health

A nurse is caring for a 64-year-old patient who has survived cardiopulmonary resuscitation after a triple coronary artery bypass graft surgery.To help this patient cope with this experience,what is the best thing for the nurse to do?

A nurse is caring for a patient with a debilitating chronic illness.The patient mentions several times that faith would guide her healing.The nurse knows that faith can best be defined as a:

When caring for patients,a nurse must understand the difference between religion and spirituality.Religious care helps patients maintain their faithfulness to:

A patient refuses to remove a specific spiritual garment for daily bathing.The most appropriate action for the nurse would be to:

An elderly patient is dying,and begins talking to loved ones who have died before him.The nurse feels a sense of inner peace as his patient quietly dies.What is the best term for this feeling of peace?

Interventions a nurse can use to establish presence with a patient include which of the following? (Select all that apply.)

A patient has been diagnosed with a terminal disease.Hope may be used effectively with this type of patient.Nurses can support a patient's use of hope because hope provides a:

To assess,evaluate,and support a patient's spirituality the best action a nurse should take includes:

A nurse who works in a neonatal intensive care unit is caring for a critically ill infant with a poor prognosis.She is Christian and feels responsible to care for both the physical and spiritual needs of the infant and his parents.What is the best statement for the nurse to make to the parents of the infant?

A patient who has been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer states that he does not believe in God,but he has had a meaningful life by contributing to the lives of those around him.This person is most likely which of the following?

The nurse is caring for a patient who states that he does not believe in the existence of God.The nurse realizes that this person: