Spiritual Assessment
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JCAHO, 2008; JCAHO, n.d.) recognizes the importance of the spiritual component of a patient's evaluation. It covers his ways of coping, prayer life and religious practices, which make his life meaningful. This component, therefore, becomes an indispensable aspect of his total health care (JCAHO, JCAHO).
Part of the chosen spiritual assessment of the sample patient is composed of the following questions:
How does the patient visualize his spiritual life?
Is the patient contented or happy with his spiritual reputation?
How does he cope with a sense of guilt?
What is his and his wife's spiritual status in the community?
What is his spiritual dilemma that creates psychosomatic symptoms?
Assessment Findings
The male patient will be 54 years old in three months' time, a second-highest ranking official in the largest private coconut-growing coconut entity in Florida. He has worked at this company for 23 years and climbed the ladder to his current post with sustained efficiency and sense of duty. He is an agriculture graduate who prepared for his position. His wife and their only son, now 20 years old, are as educationally equipped as he. Three months ago, he consulted with a general practitioner in a hospital near his residence for a strange-looking mole right beside his right nostrils. A biopsy revealed a malignancy and it was immediately removed on outpatient basis. But a month later,...
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