Differences Between Spirituality and Religion Discussion

Differences Between Spirituality and Religion Discussion

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Question Description
I’m working on a Nursing question and need guidance to help me study.

Getting Started
This assignment includes writing a 4-5 page paper addressing the differences between spirituality and religion as well as your personal thoughts about spirituality and the role of spirituality in providing holistic nursing care. You are asked to discuss how you have addressed the spiritual needs of patients and how spirituality and spiritual needs can be addressed with people who are not of a Judeo-Christian background.

Upon successful completion of the course material, you will be able to:

Analyze the differences between spirituality and religion.
Evaluate personal and agency effectiveness in assessing and utilizing data about clients’ spiritual and sociocultural needs.
Describe effective ways to deliver appropriate nursing interventions to address spiritual needs.
Resources
Textbook: Professional Nursing: Concepts and Challenges
File: Partial List of References for the Textbook by Black – 7th edition APA
File: Resources for Workshop 4: Cultural Considerations and Spirituality
Website: Grammarly
Background Information
Nurses often focus on the physical needs of their patients and avoid discussing other potential areas of need, i.e. socio-cultural needs, psychological needs, and spiritual needs. In particular, spirituality and religion often seem to be a “taboo” topic. It may be addressed on an impersonal level by simply noting the answer to a question that is asked on the admission history: “Are there any religious or cultural considerations the staff needs to be aware of? ” Beyond this, often the subject of spirituality or evaluation of spiritual needs may not come up for the remainder of the time you care for the patient.

The purpose of this assignment is to assist you in evaluating your own views of spirituality and religion and to open your eyes to the spiritual needs of your patients. As you reflect on this paper, you will become more comfortable with the idea of providing spiritual care to your patients as well as attending to spirituality within yourself.

Instructions
Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
In your textbook, Professional Nursing: Concepts and Challenges, review the section about spirituality in Chapter 13, “Nurses, Patients, and Families: Caring at the Intersection of Health, Illness, and Culture.”
Review the Resources for Workshop 4: Cultural Considerations and Spirituality.
Write a 4-5 page paper using APA format and address the following areas:
Define the concepts of religion and spirituality supporting these definitions with citations from professional literature that you have read.
Describe the difference between religion and spirituality.
Discuss your personal definition of spirituality.
Describe the role of spirituality in providing holistic nursing care.
Describe a spiritual assessment tool that you have found through your research. Several tools are known by their acronyms, such as CSI-MEMO, FICA, HOPE, SPIRIT, and FAITH.
Describe your personal comfort level with assessing and providing spiritual care. Would you ever consider using one of these assessment tools?
Describe effective ways to deliver appropriate nursing interventions to address spiritual needs.
Discuss ways to provide spiritual care to patients who are not of the Christian perspective.
Describe a personal clinical experience of providing spiritual care.
A minimum of three references should be cited within this paper. These references must be from professional literature and must support the definitions for religion and spirituality included in your paper. There are some excellent articles on religion and healthcare written over five years ago, so the requirement for an article that is current within the last five years does not apply to this paper.
This paper is to be written in the FIRST person.
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You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.
Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.
APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.
LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.
Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.