Supporting Clients with Prayer and Illness

Illness can interfere with some clients' ability to pray and health challenges can challenge one's beliefs about prayer and the power of the divine.

To support the client in reconstructing meaningful beliefs and learning helpful ways to think and practice prayer.

Responsibilities, self-respect, recognition, sense of accomplishment, sense of competence.

<p>Food, clothing, shelter, comfort, self-preservation tasks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Addressing physiological needs is fundamental for survival, while self-actualization needs are necessary for personal growth and fulfillment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Provide familiar food, select small portions, avoid unpleasant treatments before or after meals, provide a tidy environment, encourage oral hygiene.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By introducing options for control, such as choosing the location of care, activity schedule, and times of visits from relatives and friends.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The nurse provides empathy, care, and acts as a teacher by explaining the dying process and what the family can expect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To assess for edema/turgor and maintain the client's hydration status.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By reducing psychological stress and addressing specific symptoms that may affect the client's appetite.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bathing, speaking or reading to the client, holding hands</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To respect the wishes and abilities of the family members</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Complaints of weakness and thirst, weight loss, decreased tissue turgor, dry mucous membranes, sunken eyeballs, decreased tearing, weak pulse, tachycardia, decreased blood pressure, postural hypotension, decreased capillary refill, decreased urine volume, increased specific gravity of urine, increased hematocrit, increased BUN</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Providing as much privacy as they desire</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Illness, strenuous activity, and lifestyle factors such as diet, exercise, stress, and alcohol consumption</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Due to decreases in thirst sensation, ability of the kidneys to concentrate urine, intracellular fluid, total body water, and response to body hormones regulating fluid and electrolytes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Encouraging the family to view the body and clip a lock of hair as a remembrance</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Answer sensitively and honestly</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Weight gain, full bounding pulse, tachycardia, increased blood pressure and central venous pressure, distended neck veins, moist crackles in lungs, dyspnea, shortness of breath, mental confusion</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Assess for clinical manifestations, monitor weight and vital signs</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Relaxation of the facial muscles, difficulty speaking, difficulty swallowing, and gradual loss of the gag reflex</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Slower and weaker pulse, decreased blood pressure, and mottling and cyanosis of the extremities</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rapid, shallow, irregular, or abnormally slow respirations, noisy breathing (death rattle), and mouth breathing with dry oral mucous membranes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Blurred vision, impaired senses of taste and smell</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Indicators of spiritual disruption may include difficulty in facilitating prayer practices or lack of self-actualization needs fulfillment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fear of death, concern with the meaning of life, inner conflict about religious beliefs, concern about a relationship with the deity, questions about the meaning of existence or the meaning of suffering, or concern about the moral or ethical implications of therapy</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By assessing and following client cues, and asking the question: Would a prayer be helpful?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Some Jewish clients observe a kosher diet to varying degrees (e.g., avoid pork and shellfish, do not mix dairy and meat). Sabbath observance varies, with Orthodox Jews avoiding traveling in vehicles, writing, turning on electric appliances, and lights.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Be aware that some clients may think the rite or offer of prayer means they are dying.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By assessing how and what the client would like in terms of prayer, and evaluating if the offer of prayer is truly helpful to the client.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Assess the client's nares for encrustations and irritation. Apply a water-soluble lubricant as required to soothe the mucous membranes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Positioning the client to allow for maximum chest expansion, encouraging or providing frequent changes in position, encouraging deep breathing and coughing, encouraging ambulation, and implementing measures that promote comfort such as giving pain medications.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Emphasize to the client and family the importance of not smoking or lighting any flammable materials, instruct the client in effective coughing techniques, discuss changes in sputum characteristics, and teach the client to maintain adequate fluid intake.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Encourage the client to express their spiritual beliefs and preferences regarding prayer. Provide a quiet and peaceful environment for the client to engage in prayer.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Encourage the client to set personal goals and pursue activities that bring fulfillment. Provide support and resources for the client to achieve self-actualization.</p> Signup and view all the answers