Caring For Patients Of Diverse Religious Traditions: Catholicism

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Source:

Home Healthcare Now

March 2006, Volume :24 Number 3 , page 183 - 186 [Buy]

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Authors

Narayan, Mary Curry MSN, RN, CS, CTN

Abstract

Your patient is a Catholic, and you are not. How can you be sensitive to the patient's spiritual needs? How do Catholics think about health and illness? What kind of spiritual resources do they draw upon when facing a health crisis?