Question

What spiritual issues surrounding a disaster can arise for individuals, communities, and health care providers? Explain your answer in the context of a natural or manmade disaster. How can a community health nurse assist in the spiritual care of the individual, community, self, and colleagues?

Answer 1

SpOitual can be described as human spirit or spirituality refers to people following a religious for re- formation. The person who gives spiritual care in health care industry are called as Chaplain.Spiritual issue arises when an individual is in need of peace of mind after illness,loss,or even after disaster.

Emotional or spiritual care is very necessary after a man made or natural disasters.

The role of a community health nurse plays a vital role treating from an individual to the entire community.

• The nurse should embrace and practice loving kindness with self and others
• Assist with basic physical relief, emotional support, spiritual care
• Carry out disaster management
• Instil faith,hope,honor in every one
• Be sensitive to the feeling of others
• Promote and accept positive and negative feeling of others
• Be open to mystery and allow miracles
• They could arrange spiritual meet with the community, people
• Could assist them to holy places as per the needs.
• Rehabilitation program could be done

Hence for self, individuals, colleagues or communities spiritual care is needed on different basis to cope up with the situation and lead a quality life.