title: Spiritual care: an unexpected lesson.
abstract: This exemplar, relaying an unexpected lesson in meeting the spiritual needs of an acutely ill patient, is written to encourage nurses in providing holistic care of patients. The author assessed spiritual distress and made a plan for spiritual care, but implementation and outcome were not favorable. An inductive Christian nursing theory by Elizabeth Ann Davis Lee, as reported in the Journal of Christian Nursing, is used to analyze this poignant memory of nursing care.
authors.affiliation: Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA.
authors.forename: Roxanne
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stryker
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002835:Christianity; D013293:Enterococcus faecalis; D005260:Female; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000451:nursing* / Q000517:prevention & control; D018939:Holistic Nursing; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000451:nursing* / Q000517:prevention & control; D020713:Vancomycin Resistance