Spiritual Assessment:  Meeting the Spiritual Needs of Your Patients

Award(s):
Worldfest International Festival, Platinum Award

Designed to strengthen the ability to assess a patient’s spiritual needs, this program provides practical techniques to help promote patient’s spiritual health while meeting Joint Commission Standards.

Clinical Advisor(s):
Sherry A. Snyder

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Learning Objective: Helps staff assess the spiritual needs of their patients and promote spiritual health

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Spiritual health can determine how willing patients are to participate in their own care, to accept education, and to comply with treatment.

This award winning training program will help meet Joint Commission Standards on assessing and meeting the Spiritual needs of your patients.

After viewing this program, staff will be able to:

• Define the difference between spirituality and religion
• Complete a spiritual assessment
• Recognize signs of spiritual health
• Define the levels of spiritual distress and recognize the signs of each
• Recognize barriers to effective interventions
• Use proven techniques that aid in successful positive interaction

Use this program for:

• Annual In-Service
• Mandatory Training
• Nursing Education
• Remedial/Risk Management Training
• General Staff Education
• Nursing Students

 

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