A nurse is performing a spiritual assessment on a patient with depression. What does the nurse recognize as the key concept to a spiritual assessment?
1. Learn how the patient answers questions about his or her religion and how satisfied the patient is with those answers.
2. Learn how the patient answers questions about the meaning of life and how satisfied the patient is with those answers.
3. Assess how the patient answers questions about formal spiritual practices and how his or her symptoms interfere with these practices.
4. Assess how the patient answers a series of standardized questions that reveal the patient's choices of health care practices and religious choices.
Answer: 2
Explanation: 2. A spiritual assessment assesses how the patient answers questions about the meaning of life and how satisfied he or she is with those answers. Spirituality is broad term that describes how individuals answer questions about the meaning of life, while religion is a term used to describe formal faith-based practices and beliefs. While spirituality and religion may be similar to some individuals, these terms are different and the spirituality assessment focuses primarily on the patient's spirituality as a whole, not simply his or her religion. Spirituality is broad and informal, not formal. Also, this assessment does not necessarily relate the patient's symptoms to his or her own spirituality. This assessment is not performed by a series of standardized questions but, rather, by the nurse using both closed and open-ended questions, as well as therapeutic communication.
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