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A B Cairns

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Spirituality and religiosity in palliative care.

Positive spirituality preserved through religiosity' can be a useful tool in the care of people who are dying. Spirituality concerns the connectedness with self, others, environment, and the Other. Religiosity describes postures and acts done alone or in company with others that preserve practices and spiritual understandings for the good of the terminally ill. The home care and hospice nurse must understand these principles and act in concert with the care team to accomplish care goals.

Community Health Nursing↗

Similarities and differences of care in a medical center.

Explicates a medical-pastoral paradigm in terms of eight "polar unities": natural science/theology; person/organism; efficient/teleodogical causality; multivocal/univocal language; quantitative/qualitative concerns; meaning/technical interventions; description/value; validation of intervention effectiveness. Suggests that these varieties of approaches may be illustrated in the ancient Oriental Yin-Yang symbol which includes the kind of "polar unity" implicit in a modern medical center.

Academic Medical Centers↗