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Ever since the first edition of Verna Benner Carson's Spiritual Dimensions of Nursing Practice went out of print, second-hand copies have been highly sought after by practitioners in the field and nursing school faculty who appreciated the comprehensive scope of the seminal work on spirituality and health. In this highly anticipated revised edition, Carson and her co-editor, Harold G. Koenig, have thoroughly revised and updated this classic in the field.

The revised edition builds on the foundations laid in the first, providing perspectives on new research in the spiritual dimensions of nursing care, applying nursing theory to spiritual care, and addressing the spiritual needs of both nurses and patients. It also examines ethical issues in nursing and the impact of legal decisions on health care issues. Contributors address issues of spiritual development across the entire lifespan-from the spiritual needs and influences of the very young to the elderly, including those facing chronic illnesses or death. The volume takes a similarly broad approach in addressing spiritual issues from a variety of faith backgrounds-including both theistic and pantheistic religious practices, so that nurses can be prepared to meet the needs of patients from various religious traditions.
Second to chaplains, nurses are the major providers of spiritual care, and no other book will serve their needs like Spiritual Dimensions of Nursing Practice .

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• Preface(p. vii)
• Part I Spirituality and the Nursing Profession(p. 1)
• 1 Spirituality: Defining the Indefinable and Reviewing Its Place in Nursing(p. 3)
• 2 Religion, Spirituality, and Health: Understanding the Mechanisms(p. 33)
• Part II Spirituality, Religion, and Health Care: Examining the Relationships(p. 63)
• 3 Theism and Health Care(p. 65)
• 4 Eastern Pantheism and Health Care(p. 86)
• 5 The Legal Issues: Religion versus Health Care(p. 101)
• Part III Application of Theory to Spiritual Needs: What Does Spiritual Care Look Like?(p. 123)
• 6 Spirituality: Identifying and Meeting Spiritual Needs(p. 125)
• 7 The Psychospiritual Lives of Ill or Suffering Children and Adolescents: What We Should Know, What We Should Do(p. 154)
• 8 Adult Spirituality for Persons with Chronic Illness(p. 193)
• 9 Spirituality and Elder Care(p. 236)
• 10 Spirituality in Death and Bereavement(p. 279)
• Part IV The Thread of Spirituality through Community, Ethics Work, and Education(p. 309)
• 11 Spiritual Care in Communities(p. 311)
• 12 Ethical Decision Making and Spirituality(p. 330)
• 13 Spirituality within Educational and Work Environments(p. 372)
• Contributors(p. 405)
• Index(p. 409)

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The revised edition of this classic work (1st ed., written by V. Carson, 1989) makes a case for the universality of spirituality, spirituality's absolute necessity in nursing, and the ability of practitioners of nursing to engage in spiritual care. It would be applicable to other practitioners besides nurses, but this reviewer believes that students in nursing or other disciplines need a sufficient curriculum offered in professional programs to adequately use this book's important content. Faculty definitely will benefit from the rich resources it offers for spiritual care. The book's four parts provide an overview of spirituality and the nursing profession; relationships between spirituality, religion, and health care; the application of theory to spiritual needs; and spirituality within communities, in ethical decision making, and within certain environments. Helpful features include tables, scenarios, conversations, assessments, strategies, resources, and reflective activities. Discussions of spirituality, ethics, and environments are the icing on the cake. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. J. Clawson University of Central Missouri

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Verna Benner Carson, PhD, is the president of C&V Senior Care Specialists, Inc, a consulting firm that provides clinical training combined with operational and marketing support for two programs she developed: "Becoming an Alzheimer's Whisperer" and "Road to Wholeness Behavioral Health." She is also a clinical nurse specialist in psychiatric mental health nursing, an associate professor at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland, where she teaches undergraduates the importance of loving the patients that God puts in our care, and the author of eight other books, including Spiritual Caregiving .

Harold G. Koenig, MD completed his undergraduate education at Stanford University, his medical school training at the University of California at San Francisco, and his geriatric medicine, psychiatry, and biostatistics training at Duke University Medical Center. He is on the faculty at Duke as professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and associate professor of medicine. Dr. Koenig is also director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health at Duke University Medical Center, and is Distinguished Adjunct Professor at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Koenig has published extensively in the fields of mental health, geriatrics, and religion, with over 350 scientific peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and nearly 40 books in print or in preparation. He has given invited testimony to both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives on the role of religion in public health.