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Spiritual dimensions of nursing practice / [manuscript] / edited by Verna Benner Carson and Harold G. Koenig. - Rev. ed. - West Conshohocken, Pa. : Templeton Foundation Press, c2008. - x, 422 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Spirituality: defining the indefinable and reviewing its place in nursing / Verna Benner Carson and Ruth Stoll -- Religion, spirituality, and health: understanding the mechanisms / Harold G. Koenig -- Theism and health care / Verna Benner Carson -- Eastern pantheism and health care / Verna Benner Carson -- The legal issues: religion versus health care / Patricia C. McMullen, Nayna Philipsen -- Spirituality: identifying and meeting spiritual needs / Verna Benner Carson -- The psychospiritual lives of ill or suffering children and adolescents: what we should know, what we should do / Pat Fosarelli -- Adult spirituality for people with chronic illness / Patricia E. Murphy, George Fitchett, Andrea L. Canada -- Spirituality and elder care / Thomas E. DeLoughry -- Spirituality in death and bereavement / Miriam Jacik -- Spiritual care in communities / Nancy Christine Shoemaker -- Ethical decision making and spirituality / Gary Batchelor -- Spirituality within educational and work environments / Elizabeth Arnold.

ISBN: 9781599471457 (paperback) : 335.75 birr 1599471450 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 2008017272

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nursing--Religious aspects.
Nursing--Research--Moral and ethical aspects.
Nursing Care.
Spirituality.
Nurse-Patient Relations.
Religion and Medicine.

LC Class. No.: RT85.2 / .C37 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 610.73

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WY 87 / S75951 2008