Faculty Notes
Faculty Notes
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Presentations
Pamela Cone, PhD, RN, CNS
Cone, P. (2009, April). Spiritual care giving by Norwegian nurses and nursing students. Workshop presented at the International Student Conference on Spiritual Care. Bergen, Norway.
From the Program:
“Nursing in Norway identifies four domains of the person as physical, psychological, social, and spiritual. How nurses recognize spiritual needs as well as knowing how to provide appropriate spiritual care is an important concern; how one learns to give spiritual care that is sensitive, noninvasive, but supportive to the patient is also important. A Fulbright Research project conducted in Bergen in Fall 2008 will be discussed. Findings indicate that Norwegian culture, nursing education history, and nurses’ personal and educational background affect a nurse's perspective and ability to give spiritual care. In this session, ways of recognizing patient needs that are spiritual in nature will be identified and strategies for providing spiritual care to patients given. Norwegian findings will be compared to US findings from a similar study conducted at Azusa Pacific University in 1994. Dialogue with attendees will promote an increased understanding of spiritual care, and mutual learning is anticipated.”
