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The Faith, Importance and influence, Community, and Address in Care (FICA) Spiritual History Tool provides a way for “the clinician to efficiently integrate open-ended questions into a standard medical history and can be used by any health care professional” (Borneman, Ferrell, & Puchalski, 2010). The FICA tool explores the presence of faith, the importance of spirituality, the influence a person’s spirituality has on their health care decisions, the involvement in a spiritual community, and the interventions to address spiritual needs (Borneman et al., 2010).

An example of this is in the beginning of the story when she states “I get unreasonably angry with John sometimes.” (Perkins-Gilman, 1899). This shows that the narrator does not know why she feels or thinks the way she does sometimes. This may indicate to the reader that she is not the most reliable person. The reader can know this also by seeing how her feelings towards things change so rapidly. First, she hates the yellow wallpaper. She says “The wallpaper, as I said before, is torn off in spots, and it sticketh closer than a brother- they must have had perseverance as well as hatred,” “But I don’t mind it a bit- only the paper.” (Perkins-Gilman, 1899). She shows complete opposition but as time goes by, it changes. Later on, she states, “I’m getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper, perhaps because of the wallpaper.” (Perkins-Gilman, 1899). According to the narrator, she is starting to feel better due to the wallpaper and she is fascinated by finding new things about the patterns she likes about the

When first introduced to the narrator, readers quickly pick up on how observant she is to the world around her. However as the novel draws to a close, many quick events take place with little to no explanation or commentary from the

In the essays "The Miss Dennis School of Writing," by Alice Steinbach, and "No Wonder They Call me a Bitch," by Ann Hodgman, both authors use description to get across the points they wish to make. The authors’ purpose for both of these essays are to catch the reader’s attention as well as to provide the readers with life lessons through descriptive writing. In “The Miss Dennis School of Writing,” Steinbach is trying to teach people about descriptive writing from her own experiences through her teacher Miss Dennis. In “No Wonder They Call me a Bitch”, the author Hodgman is trying to point out that advertisements made by the manufactures of dog food can be misleading.

Narrative power is a unique thing in that it does not matter what the story says or the truth to it but rather how it is conveyed; how does the story create meaning and understanding for the reader. It is one thing to read the novel for the facts but it is another thing to understand why the facts were told the way they were; the importance behind the facts. Authors achieve this by using copious different points of view including: second person, third person-limited, third person-omniscient, and in the example of The Enchanted, first person. First person point of view is where the story is told through the experiences of an individual within the story. The author of The Enchanted, Rene Denfeld, slightly alters this in the sense that she

2. What should a therapist be aware of when taking note of a clients manner and content of talk?

4. Hodge, D. (2001). Spiritual assessment: a review of major qualitative methods and a new framework for assessing spirituality. Social Work , 203-214

Evelyn and as a result, the setting, characters, plot, action are the revelation of Mrs.

The fact that the narrator’s perspective is limited implies that he’s making up elements of the story because there are events and opinions that the narrator has no way of verifying. An example of this is the fact that in the narrator’s telling of the story, Mattie loves Ethan to the point where she can’t live without him, and suggests that he steers a sled “into the big elm” (71) to kill them both. However there isn’t anything outside of the narrator’s story to suggest that she felt this way.

The main character, Edie, provides the narration of the story from a first person point of view. She tells her story based on an event from her past. Because she narrates the story the reader is unable to be sure if what she tells of the other characters is completely accurate. Because one does not hear other character's thoughts one could question whether Edie

One’s spirituality is a very sensitive subject and I don’t want to make anyone feel that I am asking these questions simply because I have to. I want to show that I have a genuine interest in their spiritual well-being. I found an article taken from the Journal of Christian Nursing that recommended using a tool with acronyms, making it easy to remember all that should be included in a spiritual assessment. This may help with eliminating that impersonal feel (Dameron, 2005). I also found an article from the Australian Journal of Pastoral Care and Health that evaluated several tools (CSI-MEMO, FICA, HOPE, FAITH and SPIRIT) and presented the FACT (faith, active/available/accessible, coping/comfort/conflict, treatment plan) tool as the best for an acute care setting to be utilized by pastoral services and other health care providers (LaRocca-Pitts, 2009). I have familiarized myself with these tools and will use them as a reference in the future.

Narratives are also essential to help the teller first understand their own experiences and then are used to “delight, instruct or move the listener” (Wilmot, p.24). In “Operation Ann” (4x14) April shares that “last week [Andy] was supposed to buy us gas, but instead he bought novelty cookie cutters. Now everything we eat is shaped like a dinosaur. He’s amazing.” April finds Andy’s actions to be delightful although other characters many not view them that way. Leslie, the main character of the series simply replies “Great!” and although she may not understand the affection April is showing for the action, she is demonstrating her understating of the narrative as she plays the key role of listener. Narrative throughout the series not only is

The patient was able to express himself openly; no questions were skipped or left blank. Explaining the reason and the importance of performing this spiritual assessment helped build rapport and trust with the patient easily. Also, getting some insight into his spiritual needs made the connection between nurse and patient stronger. What would you do differently in the

Describe the spiritual experience you had with your patient, family member, or friend using this tool. How does this tool allow you to better meet the needs of your patient?

This week’s lesson in forum 1 each onlinemate was to submit a thread in response to 5 questions after reading chapters 1 thru 3, plus show how a biblical worldview be applied. Also, according to the grading rubric for week 2 we are told to reply to 2 classmates’ threads. One of the threads I have chosen to give a reply to be is Jermaine Green. The response to this forum will be based on 2.08 Discussion in the Publication manual of the American psychological association (APA), sixth edition (2013, p.35) and two premises on which sampling theory is based; the characteristics of accuracy and precision for measuring validity (Cooper & Schindler, 2014).