Spirituality: The Heart of Nursing
This is a book to pick up and delve into. Here, you will find knowledge and ideas that may help you make your own spiritual journey, as well as helping people in your care to make theirs.
Book Description
This is a book to pick up and delve into. Here, you will find knowledge and ideas that may help you make your own spiritual journey, as well as helping people in your care to make theirs. It covers such issues as: nurses as spiritual carers; nurses as wounded healers; spirituality as a healing force; spirituality in care; ageing, spirituality and the nursing role; spiritual care in dementia; the meaning of spirituality and the nurse's role in providing spiritual care to the dying patient; and spiritual care of palliative care patients.
The message of the book is that nurses are special people, who are also conscious that our spiritual well-being is just as important as our physical health.
Key Features
- Written by Australian nurses, from their own experience, for the benefit of other nurses.
- The chapters are written by experienced nurses in a style and language that is easy to understand.
- This is a book that is a necessity for all healthcare staff, who are with people in times of crisis.
- This is also a bringing together of varied and seasoned clinicians and their reflection of the human predicament.
About the Author
Professor Susan Ronaldson
Sue Ronaldson has worked in the higher education sector since 1992. In April 1996 she took up the position of Foundation Chair in Nursing at Australian Catholic University and St Vincent's Health Care Campus, Darlinghurst, in Sydney, Australia. Sue has specialised in gerontic nursing and research since 1981. A W.K. Kellogg Nursing Fellowship took her to the United States in 1984-85 where she studied at the University of California (San Francisco and Berkeley campuses) and travelled extensively, visiting community gerontic facilities. Her PhD studies (at La Trobe University, Melbourne) considered the effects of ageing on muscle function in elderly women.
Sue's professional interests are broad, ranging from the psychosocial needs of people in need of care to the nursing strategies which facilitate communication with people who are confused, particularly older people and those with AIDS Dementia Complex. Sue has been a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing Australia since 1978.
Sue Ronaldson's long-standing interest in the spiritual aspects of nursing care stems from her belief that spiritual caring is fundamental to providing truly holistic care. She believes that Spirituality: The Heart of Nursing addresses many of the concepts central to this important element of caring.
