Spiritual distress through the lens of theism, monism, and humanism
| dc.contributor.author | Ryan, Maureen P | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Bruce, Anne | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-21T19:18:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-21T19:18:13Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2011 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-06-21 | |
| dc.degree.department | School of Nursing | |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Nursing M.N. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In modern cancer care, human spiritual suffering often remains unacknowledged. Time, inadequate knowledge about spirituality and care giver reluctance are contributing factors. Spiritual distress is not a physician priority and chaplaincy services throughout the provincial cancer care system have been eliminated. Nurses’ ethic to provide holistic care implies that nurses may be in a position to assume responsibility, at minimum, for screening for spiritual distress. To do so, nurses require sensitivity to clues of spiritual distress and have an awareness of how to address it. This project examines select articles pertaining to spiritual distress published between 1995 and 2010 using a framework derived from the work of Dr. Barbra Pesut (2005). Pesut organized literature on spirituality by nine nurse theorists using the philosophic categories of monism, theism and humanism. This project explores the implications of each typology for nursing ontology, epistemology, competency, and ethics with regard to spiritual distress. While an overlap was found for each of the examined categories of publications, the framework clarifies perspectives toward spirituality as well as implications for nursing practice. It is hoped that this endeavor will help nurses better understand care of those experiencing spiritual distress in the context of advanced cancer. | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/4025 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights.temp | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.subject | spirituality | en_US |
| dc.subject | distress | en_US |
| dc.subject | humanism | en_US |
| dc.title | Spiritual distress through the lens of theism, monism, and humanism | en_US |
| dc.type | project | en_US |