Spirituality and Nursing

OVERVIEW

For nurses in Catholic health care, throughout the continuum of care, spiritual care is an important component of nursing and essential to providing quality palliative care.

This webinar will be led by Betty Ferrell, RN, Ph.D., a principal investigator for the project, "Improving Quality Spiritual Care as a Dimension of Palliative Care" and co-author of Making Health Care Whole. Dr. Ferrell will discuss spiritual models of care that can be implemented in acute and long-term care settings, the value of spiritual care in the assessment and treatment of seriously ill patients, and how spirituality can be integrated into care planning, patient self-care, training, quality improvement and personal and professional development for nursing.

WEBINAR OBJECTIVES

As a result of this program, participants will be able to:

• Identify examples of spiritual assessment.
• Describe the role of spiritual care in the nursing care of seriously ill persons.
• Integrate patient spirituality into the care and treatment plans.

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE

• Nursing leaders
• Nursing staff
• Palliative care team
• Quality leaders
• Mission leaders
• Pastoral care staff

FACULTY

Betty Ferrell, RN, Ph.D., MA, FAAN, FPCN, is a professor and research scientist at the City of Hope Medical Center in Los Angeles. She has been in oncology nursing for 34 years and has focused her clinical expertise and research in pain management, quality of life and palliative care. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and she has over 300 publications in peer-reviewed journals and texts. She is principal investigator of a Program Project funded by the National Cancer Institute on "Palliative Care for Quality of Life and Symptom Concerns in Lung Cancer" and principal investigator of the "End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC)" project. She directs several other funded projects related to palliative care in cancer centers and QOL issues. Dr. Ferrell is a member of the Board of Scientific Advisors of the National Cancer Institute and was Chairperson of the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care. She served on the National Quality Forum Committee for Preferred Practices in palliative care. She is also the chairperson of the Southern California Cancer Pain Initiative. She has authored eight books — Cancer Pain Management (1995), a text on Suffering (1995), Pain in the Elderly (1996), Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing published by Oxford University Press (3rd edition published in 2010). She is co-author of the text, The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Nursing published in 2008 by Oxford University Press and Making Health Care Whole: Integrating Spirituality into Patient Care (Templeton Press, 2010). Dr. Ferrell completed a master's degree in theology, ethics and culture from Claremont Graduate University in 2007.

CHA MEMBER BENEFIT

CHA's webinars are designed to offer timely, convenient, relevant, cost-effective education about key topics and issues.

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

Executives: The Catholic Health Association is authorized to award 1.50 pre-approved Category II (non-ACHE) continuing education credits for this program toward advancement or recertification in the American College of Healthcare Executives. Participants in this program wishing to have the continuing education hours applied toward Category II credit should list their attendance when applying for advancement or recertification in ACHE.

Nursing Home Administrators: This educational offering has been reviewed by the National Continuing Education Review Service (NCERS) of the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Long Term Care Administrators (NAB) and approved for 1.50 clock hours and 1.50 participant hours. (Program Approval Number: 08122011-1.50-8424-dl-AVCONF) cecomments@nabweb.org.

Registered Nurses: This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the Missouri Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. [Approval number 1213-2-871; 1.50 contact hours]

Pastoral Care
This program has been submitted to the National Association of Catholic Chaplains (NACC) for continuing education hours.

CONTACT

For more information, contact Debbie Morrow.