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Christian Worldview Nursing
Health care in the West and worldwide has undergone very extreme changes over the past decades. However, the basic principles of nursing like caring for the sick and elderly have remained consistent. While technology has changed radically since the days of Florence Nightingale, Christian caring in the nursing profession is still a foundational principle. It is this foundational principle that I seek to express in my ministering to my patients.
Christian Worldview and the Integration of Beliefs, Values, Ethics and Service
The definition of nursing for me symbolizes a set of beliefs, values, ethics and service. Nursing is after all a calling and a vocation, not just a job. In Judith Anne Shelly's book Called to Care, she defines nursing as distinct from medicine, even though the two occupy domains that are close together.
She defines it in a way that I find very familiar and similar to my own which is that nursing is the care for the human who is made in the image of God (Shelly & Miller, 2006, 16).
For Shelly, it is important to care for the entire patient holistically. In the physical arena, it is important for the nurse to fulfill the patient's bodily needs. In the psychological arena, the nurse is also responsible for communicating with other people in the expressing emotions, needs, fears. opinions, learning, or...
In the spiritual or moral area, she feels that the nurse should worship and put their faith in motion in all of the above arenas with a profound sense of accomplishment (ibid.). In this way, Christian faith is put into motion and actualized. For me, this is the definition of nursing and the actualization of its values is most in tune with Shelly's definition of nursing. This reminds me of patient A. She said that she saw the way Christianity should be based upon the way the nurses in our hospital treated the patients. Even a blood draw can be a religious even if done well and with Christian caring.
Pr The Utilization of Professional knowledge in Combination With Christian Principles-Concept of Nursing with "Salt"
In the Journal of Christian Nursing, the nurse is urged to fulfill the command of Jesus to be like the salt of the earth and to flavor the life of the patient's by modeling our Christ beliefs in our nursing practice. In the opinion of the piece, if we lose "saltiness," people (namely our patients) will not be able to taste the godliness. At this point, we will have lost usefulness and will end. We are here to bring the light into the world, in this case the world of our practice ("Salt and light," 2012, 12).
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References
Salt and light. (2012). Journal of Christian Nursing, 29(2), 74.
Shelly, J.A., & Miller, A.B. (2006). Called to care: A christian worldview for nursing. (2nd ed.).
Downer's Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press.
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