Spiritual Assessment Tool

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Spiritual Assessment Tool

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Question:does your health condition make you worry too much?

Answer:yes, this condition has affected me for days. The fact that my father suffered from the same condition I am suffering from and he was never cured even after spending a fortune worries me a great deal (Fitchett , 2008). He passed away last year.

Question:Do you sometimes feel like life is empty?

Answer:not sometimes, every time I feel the world is empty. All the people I thought that they were my close friends and relatives don’t want to see me apart from my aunty. Any time I visit or call them they think that I want to beg them for assistance. They say that I just want to spend money like my father and leave them without a single thing. My mom passed away three years ago. Life is always empty to the orphans.

Question:re there sometimes when you feel ashamed or guilty?

Answer:yes, I feel guilty. Although my aunt is doing all she can to help me, I know very well it is not going to be possible for me to survive. You know very well this disease is incurable. Even if I try to survive on the pills am given, I will eventually die. I feel like am a burden to her.

Question:Does this condition make you feel restless?

Answer:yes, living knowing that you will soon die is the worst life you can ever experience (Cook, Powell, & A. C. P. Sims, 2009). Any time I experience a slight change in body condition I get scared. This makes me completely restless.

Question:Are you a religious or spiritual person?

Answer:I am a Muslim.

Question:How often do you go to your place of worship?

Answer:Five times in a day

Question:Which of these categories do you feel you lie? Not religious at all, slightly religious or very religious.

Answer: very religious

Question:In what extend do you feel religion is a source of comfort and strength to you?

Answer:religion has assisted me a great deal. Whenever I go to the mosque for prayers, I leave that place better than I went. I always feel restored whenever I pray. (http://www.professionalchaplains.org/uploadedFiles/pdf/JCAHO-evaluating-your-spiritual-assessment-process.pdf).

Question:how can we help in your spiritual care as treatment commences?

Answer:please allow me to carry my small mat into the ward, which I will use during prayer time like it is now. As you know, I cannot go to the mosque in this condition. In addition, you know that we Muslim women do not expose our bodies to other men other than our husband. If it is possible, let the doctor who will be attending me be a lady.

After using this tool to assess the patient, I discovered that the patient had already given up

With life and neglect by the family members was causing her health deteriorate more. Another

discovery was that the patient really valued her religion and if her spiritual needs are met, she

might recover faster. The tool was effective because it made the patient talk out her pain

Because after our conversation I realized that she was more at ease with me and other medical

practitioners. One of the barriers that I faced is poor timing. The time I was questioning her was

the same time she was supposed to be praying. In future, before I use my spiritual assessment

tool, I will have to learn about the person I want to use it on, for instance her dressing could

have automatically indicated to me that she was a Muslim and if I put into consideration that ,

that was her prayer time, then came later after she was through, maybe she could have told

me much more about herself to assist me in assessing her. Another challenge was the length of

the answers. The patient took time giving out details that were not required. For instance a

question that needed either yes or no as the answer didn’t necessarily need an explanation.

In future when making an assessment tool, I will have to suggest options of answers to all the

question that I don’t need much explanation.

A spiritual assessment tool betters the life of the patient by making him or her feel that we also feel their pain. It also allows us to know their needs in order to ensure that we do not go against their doctrines which might make them uncomfortable. For instance, the patient’s request for a female doctor is genuine, if she was never asked before treatment and a male doctor went to her, she couldn’t be at peace. There are other religious believes that exist, for instance the Muslims are not allowed to eat pork. Cooking pork for patients might make that particular patient uncomfortable. In other religions like in Buddhism the patient may wish that if he or she loses her or her life during the treatment process, she or he is covered in a particular way. The tool also helps the nurses know what the patient thinks about his or her state. His or her condition might be coming worse not because of the disease but because of the stress and beliefs of the patient.

References:

http://www.professionalchaplains.org/uploadedFiles/pdf/JCAHO-evaluating-your-spiritual-assessment-process.pdf.

Fitchett , G (2008) Assessing Spiritual Needs: A Guide for Caregivers, Guides to pastoral care, New York, Academic Renewal Press.

Cook, C, Powell, A & A. C. P. Sims, (2009) Spirituality and Psychiatry, New York, RCPsych Publications.

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