Spirituality And Religion Beliefs Are Influencing The People Life Around The World

Religions affect the lives of its followers greatly because if you're a Muslim you have to pray five times a day, if you're a Jew you can't have any other gods, and if you believe in Buddhism you have to follow the middle path to stop suffering. All these rules you have to follow can take away time from you and can make you give up stuff you have, even make you leave money behind.

Physical evidence of this can be viewed as to how we have lengthened the life span in comparison to earlier times. Religion and spirituality has always and will remain to be the corner stone of medicine. Ethically, respect for everyone’s values and beliefs require competent communication skills in health care professionals. This can be crucial or a key factor to how a patient interprets their healthcare goals and outcomes. There are many key factors when one considers different religion and medicinal beliefs and practices, enhancing ones knowledge of these key factors can only help improve communication, patient understanding of their health and interpersonal relations with a healthcare

As Christians, we are taught to not judge others because it is not our place, so as nurses we would not judge our patients and their personal decisions. I believe Christianity makes us more understanding of people and the situations they are going through. Being understanding can help us to respect our patient’s religious/nonreligious views. An important effect this faith-based program could have on our future careers as nurses is our level of holistic care. At MVNU, we are taught to love all of God’s creations. We are supposed to think of all humans as our brothers and sisters, this could affect how much we care for our patients emotionally. Christian nurses may be better morally guided when providing care. We may be able to connect with some of our patients on a deeper level because of our spirituality. This faith-based program will help us work towards doing everything in Christ’s

Health care providers are challenged with caring for patients and families from different religions, faiths and cultures.  It is beneficial for a care provider to have an understanding of different beliefs so that the care and treatment plans coincide with patient’s religious faith.  Creating individualized plans of care to meet the spiritual needs of their patients is necessary for providing them holistic care.  Research is presented on three religious faiths, and their perspective will be compared to Christianity; helping nurses understand and recognize the diversity between different religions and faiths.

Barbara Pesut’s article, There be dragons: effects of unexplored religion on nurses’ competence in spiritual care and Olson, Paul, Douglass, Simington and Goddard’s article, Addressing the Spiritual Dimension in Canadian Undergraduate Nursing Education illustrate and argue that nurses need to be educated in nursing schools about religion and spirituality and its role in nursing care. It appears that the audience for Olson et al. are Canadian nursing educators, and Pesut’s are nursing students, nurses, nursing educators, etc. Although Pesut’s argument is logical and credible, it is not effective compared to Olson et al. because Olson et al. use a clear and straightforward language to entail the reader to come to their own conclusion, whereas Pesut uses dense and abstract illustrations, explicitly, imposing her argument on to the reader to think is a religious and a spiritual way. This paper is to show that the language used to make an effective argument plays a crucial role in persuading intended audience.

Since nursing began, many different philosophies have helped shape our evolution. Philosophical forces have been spiritual, religious, and gender in nature just to name a few. “Spiritual belief and religious practice contributed significantly to the moral foundation of nursing.” (Burkhardt & Nathaniel, 2014, p. 8) When admitting a patient, I am required to ask if my patient has any spiritual beliefs. We do this because spiritual beliefs have long been thought to play an important part to promote healing. For this reason, it is essential to incorporate whatever their belief into their treatment plan. The same can be said for their religious beliefs. Not all procedures, medications, and treatments are universally accepted among the many different religions. But, we do know that “in all cultures, the nursing profession has been profoundly influenced by various aspects of spirituality and religious practice.”

Different religious groups have different believe system in the provision of the healthcare. The health personnel such as doctors and nurses should be aware of the religious beliefs of their patients for effectively delivering medical care. In provision of medical care, religious faith and beliefs of the patient is incorporated with the scientific medical care in offering a holistic medical to the patients. The medical personnel should take into the consideration the religious belief of the patient in the course of offering medical care to the patient. The

One approach is that the nurse has to understand the religious background of the patient and at the same; he/she should understand each of such religious groups (Bijnen, 2014). After this step, the nurse can show respect by incorporating the patient's choices influenced by religious beliefs into the management. In cases whereby certain religious practices are conflicting with the patient's treatment, the nurse needs to be on the forefront of the management team. His/her role is to reconsider the treatment and come up with an alternative that works best for the patient through the promotion of recovery and at the same time upholding the patient's religious beliefs (Bijnen,

This article discussed the importance of assessing the client’s spiritual and religious relationships in conjunction to holistic therapeutic approaches. These assessments are geared to help the practitioner to develop therapeutic strategies that will be best suited for the client. It can be difficult to incorporate religion and spirituality with an individual due to the varying differences of religious beliefs, cultures, traditions and rituals. It is also important for the clinician to understand that even if two people profess the same religion and denomination, there spirituality may be totally opposite.

According to Wu, Tseng, & Liao (2016), spiritual care is a critical part of holistic care. In addition, in their study special material should be provided for preparation in spiritual care for nurses in order to give comprehensive care. Except the awareness of cultural and ethnic differences, the awareness of spiritual competencies is also vital.

There is a vast diversity of faith expressions present in the world today. This is especially true in the U.S., because of its large immigrant population. This is significant for health care providers, as the administration of adequate and appropriate care can be influenced by the lack of understanding regarding the spiritual beliefs and practices surrounding health promotion in different faiths. Therefore, educating oneself to

Spirituality is a delicate topic, and some may not be open to talking about their beliefs. Spirituality is generally understood to be an essential aspect of being human (Lyndo-Lam, 2012). Assessing the spiritual needs of patients is a key component in the nursing process. A compassionate and thoughtful nurse can make a patient feel more secure, making it easier for him to express his spirituality. The participation of both patient and health care provider is vital in promoting spiritual health. The main focus of a spiritual assessment is to gather information regarding the patient’s spiritual needs in order incorporate them into the plan of care, so as to treat

Spirituality is considered one of the components of health and wellness, and is a contributory factor in the delivery of holistic care (O’Shea, Wallace, Griffin, & Fitzpatrick, 2011). It only makes sense for us nurses to study and research spirituality since the nursing profession is committed to holistic development, which includes the spiritual dimension of life. However, elements such as time constraints, short staffing, insufficient formal education related to spiritual assessment and confusion between spirituality and religion have led to spirituality becoming a disregarded component of care (O’Shea et al., 2011). Adolescence is a crucial time in the development of a person’s spiritual path (Benson & Roehlkepartain, 2008). Findings showed that most adolescents hold spiritual or religious beliefs already and choose to draw on them when experiencing life-changing events. Despite this information, healthcare professionals overlook the spiritual needs of adolescents (Neuman, 2011).

For many people, religion and spirituality plays a huge part of their life. In other people, religion and spirituality is not a part of their life at all. In gothic literature, religion and spirituality are usually either very present in a work, or not present at all. In some cases, the lack of religion and spirituality affect the outcome of the story. In other cases, the character’s immense beliefs in religion and spirituality can also drastically affect the outcome of the story. In the movie, The Conjuring, the lack of religion in the family drastically affects the mother and her soul. In the story, “Good Country People,” the belief of religion in the mother and the disbelief of religion in Hulga affects the outcome of the story. In the story “Hell House,” the questions about spirituality affects the outcome of the story. In the story, “The Amityville Horror,” the opinions of a church affect the outcome of the story.

Many beliefs influence our lives today. In fact one of the most well-known movie series today, was influenced by a belief, called Norse Mythology. That movie series is Lord of the Rings! Many of the main characters and items come from Norse mythology. Such as, the elves, the enchanted rings, the dwarves, and other realms. Most people only know one or two deities from Norse Mythology, like Thor and Loki. While most people in the world are more familiar with the beliefs of the Ancient Greeks, Norse Mythology is one of the most overlooked, interesting, and diverse forms of mythology in the world.