However, the complexity of nursing home practice is closely related to the challenge of helping frail and sick older people to meet their basic physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs.
Patients do express a strong need for some basic spiritual care such as listening, communicating and expressing compassion.
We're all human beings who breathe, eat, and have the same basic brains and bodies, and have the same emotional and spiritual needs.
Addressing basic spiritual issues was understood as a function of all team members, with the need for specialised, dedicated and embedded support from a spiritual care professional in order to address issues in an ongoing manner and in accordance with key time points and clinical indicators.
Both sets of participants felt that addressing basic spiritual issues was the responsibility of all members of the interdisciplinary team, while recognising the need for specialised and embedded support from a spiritual care professional.
Yet, while basic religious constructs and principles can be read, it is still preferable to directly relate to patients' spiritual needs, rather than make assumptions in this regard [ 35, 36].
The majority of healthcare providers felt that addressing basic spiritual issues fell within the scope of practice of a number of disciplines, while also recognising the need for a dedicated specialist whose scope of practice focused exclusively on spiritual issues, particularly when patients were experiencing acute or complex spiritual distress.
My job is about meeting needs, especially spiritual needs".
Cities, after all, still have spiritual needs to satisfy.
Are your physical needs, your emotional needs, your mental needs, and your spiritual needs being satisfied?
