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Spiritual care (Medical care)

LC control no.sh2006002093
Topical headingSpiritual care (Medical care)
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Variant(s)Care, Spiritual (Medical care)
Spiritual caregiving (Medical care)
Spiritual caring (Medical care)
See alsoHolistic medicine
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Medical care--Religious aspects
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Patients--Religious life
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Scope noteHere are entered works on health care personnel attending to the spiritual and religious needs of patients, including supporting and counseling patients spiritually, facilitating their religious practices, praying with them, praying for them, and helping them to resolve conflicts between treatment and spiritual beliefs.
Found inWork cat.: Miller, Nancy. Spiritual perceptions, attitudes towards spritual care, and spiritual care practices of nurse practitioners, 2005: abstract (spiritual care; "This research study identified both the spiritual perceptions and attitudes of nurse practitioners in spiritual care provision and the spiritual care practices in the state of Idaho.")
Southwick, William E. Spiritual care: a study of the views and practices of psychiatric nurses, 1997.
Encyc. & dict. of med., nurs., & allied health, 7th ed., c2003: p. 1654 (spiritual care)
Taylor, Carol, et al. Fundamentals of nursing, 5th ed., c2005: p. 988 (spiritual care)
Nursing procedures, 4th ed., c2004: p. 107 (spiritual care)
Potter, Patricia A., and Anne Griffin Perry. Fundamentals of nursing, 5th ed., c2001: p. 109 (spiritual caring)
LC database, Mar. 21, 2006 (spiritual care, spiritual caring, spiritual caregiving)