Question

What is religious and spiritual beliefs?

(Word limit 170)

Answer 1

• Spiritual belief means a person is having strong belief towards God and it is the relationship with the superior being and is related to the nature of reality, life and death.
• Religious belief means anyone who is following the rituals and practices of various religion.
• In case of a client who is admitted to the hospital, we must have to maintain the clients spiritual and religious beliefs of the patient.
• Each and every client will be have their own beliefs towards spiritual and religious customs. If a client wishes to pray during their therapy then as a nurse we must allow them to follow it without any obstacle.
• In some religions, they do not allow the health care personnel to do death care as they believe it as a sin. So they appoint the superior person from their family or from their religion to do the death care of their loved one.
• Also some people provide honey syrup for a new born baby as their religious belief but it is not allowed to give anything other than the mother's milk for a new born baby as per the research.
• So it is every individual's own wish to follow and believe in any spiritual or religious customs.