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The lecture discusses the relevance of spirituality and spiritual care in day-to-day nursing. In a historical view spiritual care was a self evident part of nursing care in the middle ages, mostly provided by the nuns and friars in the convents and monasteries. The spiritual aspect of nursing lost its relevance while nursing became an occupation or job under the predominance of medicine in modern health care. In the prevailing rediscovery of the importance of spirituality to modern health care and nursing it becomes apparent, that spiritual care is an integral part ofeveryday nursing which never gave up the claim of being holistic. In nursing education spirituality is present as an issue in the well known nursing models concerning to the so called life activities. Relating to the curricula for nursing education there is still a lack of contents referring tospirituality.
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As a registered nurse, a catholic theologian with a doctors degree in moral theology and a professor for ethics and anthropology in nursing I entered the field of nursing in the 90ths always instructed and trained with reference to Juliane Juchli and her theory of the activities of daily life. In this few caring for the spiritual needs of patients is and always was a self evident matter and not a kind of job enrichment of nursing.
Constanze Giese
Katholische Stiftungsfachhochschule München
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This page is a summary of: Spiritualität in der Pflege, Spiritual Care, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/spircare-2016-0110.
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