Spirituality in Nursing
...rds Rhetoric of Spirituality in Mental Health Care,” Nolan (1997) shows the different meanings of spirituality and suggests ways in which the spiritual care of clients can be implemented. Some of the different aspects that Nolan (1997) implies are: spirituality & mental health and nursing & spirituality. Through these aspects it is difficult for nurses to acknowledge their own spirituality; which can be essential to them if they were to nurture their clients. Nolan (1997) asserts that those most in need of spiritual care are people suffering from mental illness or psychological distress. Nolan (1997) makes the connection between mental health nurses and spirituality in order to understand the spiritual well being of an individual. Nolan (1997) claims that mental health nursing, in its long pursuit for professional respectability and scientific base knowledge is in danger of neglecting how intensely its practices are rooted in or should be rooted in the attempt to unde...