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  2. As a palliative care physician who does not believe in God, I have felt awkward when patients ask me to pray with them. How do I support them in their religious beliefs and practices while maintaining my own integrity?

    ... dimension. For them, receiving medical care is part of a bigger picture that involves their spirituality and/or religious faith. As they face the anxiety of a life-limiting illness, patients may turn...


  3. We have a middle-aged patient who appears troubled and anxious much of the time. When he is alone, his anxiety increases almost to the point of panic. His physical symptoms are well controlled, but he seems to be suffering emotionally and, perhaps, spiritually. He does not talk easily about what he is experiencing. How can we respond to his anxiety?

    Spirituality


  4. Our homecare nurses visit a mother of teenage children who is deteriorating rapidly after a long illness. She wants to continue treatments that are no longer effective and is not willing to consider palliative care. She says that she will never quit fighting for life because that would mean she has lost hope. Do you have any suggestions about how we can support her and her family?

    Spirituality


  5. My religious beliefs and practice support me in my palliative care work.

    ... religious beliefs and practice support me in my palliative care work. I find it easy to talk about spirituality and religious faith with my patients. I also pray with them when they request it. However,...


  6. I’m providing care to a patient who belongs to a religion that is totally unfamiliar to me. I sense that religion is very important to her, but how do I support her in her religious belief and practice?

    ... information about the patient’s spiritual needs. Supporting a patient’s religious faith or spirituality begins with spiritual screening, which allows you to quickly determine the patient’s spiritual health.


  7. I work with a colleague who believes that she has a duty to share her religious faith with dying people. I sometimes feel she is not respecting the patient’s privacy or boundaries, but what should I do about this?

    Death and dying often elicit a heightened awareness of the importance of spirituality in patients, families and health care professionals. Caring for dying people and their families may offer opportunities...


  8. I am caring for an elderly patient who does not allow us to control her pain because she believes that her physical suffering is a sacrifice that will help her son to get to heaven. Her struggle with pain is upsetting to the whole team and to her family, but we feel helpless to do anything about it. Do you have any advice?

    Spirituality


  9. I am caring for an elderly patient who believes that he will be healed miraculously. As he continues to deteriorate physically, he struggles with the possibility that he may not have enough faith to be healed. What can I say to him?

    Spirituality


  10. Wild Darkness

    ... for them. Pico Iyer describes the charnel grounds along the banks of the Ganges in this way: “Spirituality in Varanasi lies precisely in the poverty and sickness and death that it weaves into its unending...


  11. How can we help a patient create her legacy and share it before she dies? She has no family and is relatively new to our area, but she wants to know she won't be forgotten. What can we do?

    Spirituality


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