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Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The EPICC Project: Inception, Origins and Outputs -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Why EPICC Was Needed? -- 1.3 Origins and Organisation of the EPICC Project -- 1.3.1 Origins -- 1.3.2 European Spirituality Research Network for Nursing and Midwifery -- 1.3.2.1 A Significant Milestone for Spiritual Care Competencies in Nursing and Midwifery -- 1.3.3 Organisation and Delivery of EPICC -- 1.3.3.1 EPICC Strategic Partners and EPICC Project Manager -- 1.4 Participating Groups -- 1.4.1 EPICC Participants -- 1.4.2 EPICC Participants+ -- 1.5 The Key Activities -- 1.6 Methodology -- 1.6.1 Action Learning -- 1.6.2 Intellectual Outputs -- 1.7 Outputs and Achievements -- 1.7.1 EPICC Gold Standard Matrix for Spiritual Care Education and Narrative to the Matrix -- 1.7.2 EPICC Spiritual Care Education Standard -- 1.7.3 EPICC Adoption Toolkit -- 1.8 Overview of the Book -- 1.9 Summary -- References -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 2: What Do We Mean by 'Spirituality' and 'Spiritual Care'? -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Spirituality: As a Term and Phenomenon -- 2.2.1 Many Definitions -- 2.2.2 What the Definitions Are About? -- 2.2.3 A Working Definition -- 2.3 Being a Human Being -- 2.3.1 The Lived Body -- 2.3.2 Basic Conditions for Human Life -- 2.4 Spiritual Care: What It Is and How to Do it? -- 2.4.1 Spiritual Care: Theoretical Perspectives -- 2.4.2 Meeting Spiritual Needs in Time of Vulnerability -- 2.5 Spiritual Care: Some Examples from Across Europe -- 2.5.1 Spiritual Care in the Netherlands -- 2.5.2 Spiritual Care in Croatia -- 2.5.3 Spiritual Care in Norway -- 2.5.4 Summary of European Examples -- 2.6 Summary -- References -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 3: Educational Context, Evidence and Exploration of Professional Fields of Nursing and Midwifery -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 International Healthcare Policy.

3.2.1 Internationally -- 3.2.2 Within Europe -- 3.2.3 Nationally -- 3.2.4 Spiritual Care Guidelines -- 3.2.5 Spiritual Care Guidance for Nurses -- 3.3 Nursing and Midwifery Regulatory and Professional Bodies -- 3.4 Patients and Carers -- 3.5 Nurses and Midwives -- 3.6 The Problem -- 3.7 Responding to the Problem -- 3.7.1 International Research and Three Landmark European Studies (2010-2016) -- 3.7.2 The EPICC Project (2016-2019) -- 3.8 Summary of Main Points for Learning -- References -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 4: Self-Care -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.1.1 Reflective Exercise -- 4.1.2 Reflective Exercise -- 4.2 Communication: Managing Difficult Situations -- 4.2.1 Reflective Exercise -- 4.3 Compassionate Self-Care and Resilience -- 4.3.1 Reflective Exercise -- 4.4 Where Are You in This? Self-Care and Spirituality -- 4.4.1 How to Conduct a Spiritual Assessment on Yourself -- 4.4.2 Reflective Exercise -- 4.4.3 Reflective Exercise -- 4.5 You Make the Difference: The Nurse as a Healthy Resource -- 4.5.1 Reflective Exercise -- 4.6 Strategies for Self-Care: Self-Discovery, Self-Reflection and Self-Care -- 4.6.1 Exploration of Self -- 4.6.2 Reflection on Self and Health: How Am I Doing? -- 4.6.3 Actions: Self-Care Techniques -- 4.6.4 Mindfulness -- 4.6.5 Music and Creative Arts Expression -- 4.6.6 Meditation -- 4.6.7 Yoga -- 4.6.8 Exercise -- 4.6.9 Practical Time Out Opportunity -- 4.6.10 Five-Minute Self-Care Time out Break -- 4.7 Cue to Action -- 4.7.1 Reflective Exercise -- 4.8 Summary -- References -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 5: Competence 1: Intrapersonal Spirituality and Its Impact on Person-Centred Spiritual Care -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Context of Intrapersonal Spirituality -- 5.2.1 Spirituality and Spiritual Care Within the Holistic Understanding of Healthcare.

5.2.2 Intrapersonal Spirituality Embedded Within the Nurse/Midwife-Patient Relationship -- 5.2.3 The Importance of Consciousness and Impact of One's Own Spirituality -- 5.3 The Essence of Intrapersonal Spirituality in Nursing and Midwifery Practice -- 5.3.1 Presence and Attention -- 5.4 Availability -- 5.5 Vulnerability -- 5.6 Discover Your Personal Intrapersonal Spirituality -- References -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 6: Competence 2: Interpersonal Spirituality -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Spiritual and Cultural Worldviews, Beliefs and Practices in the Provision of Care -- 6.3 Effective, Verbal and Non-verbal Interaction between Persons and Carers -- 6.3.1 Therapeutic Interactions -- 6.3.2 Verbal and Non-verbal Interactions -- 6.3.3 What Is Most Important to You Now? How Can We Help? -- 6.4 Evoking Companionship and Compassionate Care -- 6.5 Promoting Spiritual Care Attitudes -- 6.5.1 The Body and Its Centrality to Spiritual Care -- 6.5.2 Human Relationships, Listening and Attending -- 6.5.3 Spirituality and Presence -- 6.5.4 Holistic Meaningful Care -- 6.6 Summary of the Main Points for Learning -- References -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 7: Competence 3: Spiritual Care, Assessment and Planning -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Theory, Rationale and Evidence Base for Spiritual Care -- 7.2.1 Spiritual Care: Fact or Fiction? -- 7.3 The Knowledge Base for Spiritual Care -- 7.3.1 Screening -- 7.3.2 History Taking -- 7.3.3 Formal Assessment -- 7.4 The Need for Culturally Sensitive Care: An Example from Thailand -- 7.4.1 Explanation: Applying Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes Evident in the Scenario -- 7.5 Importance of Self-Awareness When Planning Spiritual Care -- 7.5.1 Explanation: Applying Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes Evident in the Scenario -- 7.6 Why Spiritual Assessment Matters: Thoughts from a Newly Qualified Nurse -- 7.6.1 Why It Matters?.

7.6.2 Developing Patient Awareness -- 7.6.3 Demonstrating Spiritual Care -- 7.7 Summary of the Main Points for Learning -- References -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 8: Competence 4: Spiritual Care, Intervention and Evaluation -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.1.1 What Is a Spiritual Intervention? -- 8.2 Theory, Rationale and Evidence -- 8.2.1 Personal Competencies in Spiritual Care -- 8.2.2 Spiritual Intervention: Presence -- 8.2.3 Spiritual Intervention: Words -- 8.2.4 Spiritual Intervention: Actions -- 8.3 Documentation of Spiritual Care -- 8.4 Practice Examples to Exemplify Spiritual Care -- 8.4.1 Case 1: João -- 8.4.2 Case 2: Jane -- 8.4.3 Case 3: Anna -- 8.4.4 Case 4: Carmen -- 8.5 Conclusion -- 8.6 Summary of the Main Points for Learning -- References -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 9: Conclusions of the EPICC Journey and Future Directions -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Innovation -- 9.3 Intellectual Outputs and Development of Project Resources -- 9.3.1 Output 1 -- 9.3.2 Output 2 and 3 -- 9.4 Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Spiritual Disruption? -- 9.5 The Future -- References -- Suggested Reading -- Afterword: Compassion in Care.

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