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Benchmark – Spiritual Needs Assessment

Benchmark – Spiritual Needs Assessment Grand Canyon University: HLT302 July 2021

Benchmark – Spiritual Needs Assessment Benchmark – Spiritual Needs Assessment Transcript of interview: - Please provide your age, nationality and sex? 54 years old, Caucasian, female. - Do you presently identify with a religion? Yes, Christian - Can you please share your recent health diagnosis with me? Yes, I was recently diagnosis with ovarian cancer and am just beginning my journey to beat this cancer. I am scheduled for a hysterectomy in the coming weeks. - How has your recent diagnosis impacted your spiritual needs? I find myself turning to my faith for strength and prayer for comfort. While I first felt embarrassed by my diagnosis, I quickly realized there is nothing to be embarrassed by and have turned to my faith circle for additional prayer for my complete healing and guidance for the hands of my physicians. - I understand you are very early in your path of care, but do you have any expectations for the members of your health care team? Other than prayers for guidance of my physicians and surgeons’ hands, I had not really thought about it. But I suppose I want them to be accepting of the prayers said in their names. I think I have more of an answer here…I’ll have to think about it further and get back to you. - This is a difficult question to ask since you are just beginning your health care journey, but do you have any limitations to your care based on religion?

Benchmark – Spiritual Needs Assessment No, I’m not a Jehovah’s Witness or anything like that. If I need a blood transfusion, give it to me. I’m not ready to die and I want all extraordinary measures taken to keep me here. - Have any of your current health care providers asked you about your spiritual needs? Not that I can recollect. I did do the pre-surgical questionnaire and it asked if I had a religious preference. Other than that, it has not come up yet. I’m not even sure how I would react if my doctor did ask me. I guess it depends on his question and if he is Christian as well. - Last question and it build upon your last answer. If you knew your physician was Christian, would it make you feel more at ease? If they were not Christian, but open your spiritual needs, would that provide you any ease? If I knew he was Christian, I would feel the most comfortable. I think I would even ask for him to join in my prayer other than just accept a prayer was said for him as well. If he was not Christian, I don’t know that I would talk about religion with the at all. I guess I’ll just have to see. Analysis of interview: We have all heard of the term burnout. “Burnout is becoming increasingly common in the health care profession” (Eseland, 2006). Given its common place, it seems unrealistic to expect health care workers to model mental, physical, and spiritual health. Personal life and work life can both be contributing factors to burnout. Understanding how to avoid burnout is important given there are many challenges in health care when you also strive to balance your faith and spirituality with patients and other health care providers. A Spiritual Needs Assessment can help, as it allows for health care providers and patients alike to plan care in a holistic way.

Benchmark – Spiritual Needs Assessment Spiritual assessments are so important that The Joint Commission now requires a patient spiritual assessment upon hospital admission (Saguil & Phelps MD, 2012). As seen above, an in-person interview was conducted with a 54-year-old Caucasian female of Christian faith, who has been recently diagnosed with ovarian cancer. While our interviewee has not yet completed her care path, she has just begun it. I posed a series of questions to her in the form of spiritual assessment. Her answers were honest and at times, unsure of the appropriate answer. The unsureness came from thinking about scenarios that had previously never crossed her mind. I inquired if her religious beliefs prohibited or precluded her from receiving any specific care. Her answer was “No, I’m not a Jehovah’s Witness or anything like that. If I need a blood transfusion, give it to me. I’m not ready to die and I want all extraordinary measures taken to keep me here.” This answer seemed to scoff at the idea that any religion would prevent you from getting the care that is deemed medically necessary. This gives a different perspective of the importance of having your religious beliefs known and respected by health care professions. While my interviewee would not have any limitations, another patient easily could. The interviewee express how she find herself “turning to my faith for strength and prayer for comfort”. She also expressed the relief she believes she would feel if she were to find out her physician shared the same religious beliefs. She was quite honest in stating she had never thought about having a provider who didn’t share the safe religious beliefs and was unsure if she would even discuss religion with them. As a health care provider, I now see the importance of a spiritual assessment. I see no reason why I would not implement it in my practice. While I was raised Catholic, I am not currently a practicing member of the faith. But I still believe in prayer and offer them up often. For me, prayer is a way to set good intentions for others, it is a way to be thankful for all that I

Benchmark – Spiritual Needs Assessment have in life and it is a way to ask for strength when I feel week. I realize prayer can mean so much more to others, but this is what it means to me. I believe because I am not so deeply rooted in faith, it actually gives me the ability to understand and be open to the spiritual traditions of others. When I think of prayer, I think it is very similar to meditation for others whose spiritual beliefs and rituals include mediation. “The key difference between prayer and meditation is: prayer is making your requests known to God and opening up to him like you would a best friend, whereas meditation is taking the time to listen to what God has to say to you through reading and digging deeper into the Bible” (Swearingen, n.d.). I think knowing how important your faith and spiritual traditions are, can allow you be a phenomenal care giver if you are willing to extend the same openness to someone else’s faith and spiritual traditions.

Benchmark – Spiritual Needs Assessment References Espeland, K.E. (2006). Overcoming burnout: how to revitalize your career. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 37(4), 178–184. Retrieved from https://web-aebscohost-com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=c20e4d91-c5f6-4df9ad48-e9c35dc7cbab%40sdc-vsessmgr01&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=106338377& db=ccm Saguil MD, A., Phelps MD, K. (2012). The Spiritual Assessment. American Family Physician. Retrieved from https://www.aafp.org/afp/2012/0915/p546.html Swearingen, S. (n.d.). Christian Prayer Vs Meditation: The Biblical Answer. JustDisciple.com. Retrieved from https://justdisciple.com/prayer-vs-meditation/...