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Spiritual

• 4 Dimensions of Spiritual Pain
• Religion
• Spirituality & Faith
• Spirituality & Medicine

Fast Facts

• # 019 Taking A Spiritual History, 2nd ed
  Taking a spiritual history is one way to support the patient in this exploration.
• # 021 Hope and Truth Telling, 2nd ed
  The difficult balance between maintaining hope and truth telling, especially as it applies to giving bad news.
• # 026 The Explanatory Model, 2nd ed
  Have you ever had this experience – you are talking with a patient about some care option and you just cannot come to an agreement?
• # 029 Responding to Patient Emotion, 2nd ed
  Here are eight tasks that guide you in responding to patient emotion:
• # 031 Confronting Personal Mortality, 2nd ed
  Confronting our own mortality
• # 052 Quality of Life
  But what does 'quality of life' (QOL) mean, and how should clinicians use this information in decision making?
• # 118 Near Death Awareness
  Near death awareness (NDA) is a term to describe a dying person's experiences of the dying process.
  
• # 120 Physicians and Prayer Requests
  The following options attempt to respect the integrity of the physician's spiritual/religious beliefs and be supportive of the patient's emotional needs.
• # 131 The Physician as Family Member
  Caring for a dying patient who has a physician-family member provides challenges and opportunities.
• # 156 Evaluating Requests for Hastened Death
  Guidance on how to evaluate and initially respond to a patient who raises the topic of a hastened death.
• # 172 Professional Patient Boundaries in Palliative Care
  Issues in health professional-patient boundaries in palliative care.
• # 203 Managing One's Emotions as a Clinician
  Clinicians' emotional responses to patient care.
• # 204 African Americans and End-of Life Care
  Differences in end-of-life care and values between African Americans and the population as a whole.

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