OBJECTIVES: To review the religious and spiritual needs of advanced cancer patients and how oncology nurses can assess and address unmet needs. DATA SOURCES: Peer-reviewed articles. CONCLUSION: The changing landscape of how advanced cancer patients understand religion and spirituality has created a dynamic set of unmet religious and spiritual needs. Nursing assessment and interventions focused on these needs requires a focus on faith and beliefs and on relationships and meaning-making. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICE: Using history-taking and spiritual assessment tools, nurses can assess patients for unmet religious and spiritual needs and can use interventions to deepen meaning-making within the nurse-patient relationship.
OBJECTIVES: To review the religious and spiritual needs of advanced cancerpatients and how oncology nurses can assess and address unmet needs. DATA SOURCES: Peer-reviewed articles. CONCLUSION: The changing landscape of how advanced cancerpatients understand religion and spirituality has created a dynamic set of unmet religious and spiritual needs. Nursing assessment and interventions focused on these needs requires a focus on faith and beliefs and on relationships and meaning-making. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICE: Using history-taking and spiritual assessment tools, nurses can assess patients for unmet religious and spiritual needs and can use interventions to deepen meaning-making within the nurse-patient relationship.
Authors: Elizabeth Palmer Kelly; Anghela Z Paredes; Stephanie DiFilippo; Madison Hyer; Brian Myers; Julia McGee; Daniel Rice; Junu Bae; Diamantis I Tsilimigras; Timothy M Pawlik Journal: Ann Surg Oncol Date: 2020-05-18 Impact factor: 5.344