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K Brown-Saltzman

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PubMed1997

Replenishing the spirit by meditative prayer and guided imagery.

OBJECTIVES: To review relevant literature describing prayer and guided imagery, and to demonstrate via the use of a vignette, the use of both prayer and guided imagery as one approach to offer spiritual care to oncology patients. DATA SOURCES: Review and research articles from multiple disciplines, and personal clinical experience. CONCLUSION: Meditative prayer and guided imagery are two approaches that can be used to provide spiritual care to cancer patients and families. While research has focused on elements of spirituality, research related to clinical interventions is limited. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICE: Guided imagery, metaphors, meditative prayer, and prayers of silence are effective approaches the nurse can implement when caring for the patient with cancer.

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PubMed1995

Ethical issues in hospital-based nursing practice.

A professional nursing ethic is a living, dynamic set of standards for nurses' professional moral behavior. For a professional ethic to be adequate, it must address the ethical issues perceived as relevant to the profession. The purpose of this descriptive study was to identify the ethical issues hospital-based nurses face in their practice. The authors sought to determine whether there were any differences in these ethical issues over time or according to specialty practice, position, age, educational level, or years in practice. Different groups of nurses (N = 794) were surveyed on five separate occasions over 9 years. Data were analyzed using descriptive and chi 2 statistics. The most frequent ethical issue faced was pain relief and management. Over time, the percentage of nurses who reported being faced with ethical issues related to morphine drips increased. Implications for future research on development of a normative nursing ethic are discussed.

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