Assignments,
Chapter 47, Spirituality
Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Person-Centered Nursing Care 10th ed.
(Taylor 2025/2026)
Written Assignments Learning
Outcome(s)
1. Develop a sample list of nursing diagnoses related 7, 9
to spiritual stress as the etiology of another problem.
Discuss appropriate nursing interventions for these
diagnoses involving spiritual problems.
2. In a written report, describe how therapeutic 6
communication skills using appropriate interview
questions and observation skills are used to meet
spirituality needs.
Group Assignments Learning Outcomes
1. Your teacher will divide the class into small groups 3, 4, 9
and assign each group a religion that is prevalent in
the community. As a group, research health beliefs
and health care practices related to your assigned
religion. Distinguish practices and beliefs that are life
, Group Assignments Learning Outcomes
affirming from those that are life denying. Develop
nursing considerations for each religion, describing the
specific nursing measures you would use if caring for a
patient of this religion. Share your group’s results with
the rest of the class.
2. Discuss in small groups how to handle the 2, 3
following situations:
A woman who is terminally ill asks, “How
could God let this happen to me?”
A patient of a faith very different from yours
asks you to pray with him.
A patient refuses a needed blood transfusion
on religious grounds.
Clinical Assignments Learning Outcome
1. Interview two or more hospitalized patients or 8
patients in a residential health care setting to
determine their spiritual needs. What is nursing’s
responsibility to meet these needs, and how can this
Chapter 47, Spirituality
Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Person-Centered Nursing Care 10th ed.
(Taylor 2025/2026)
Written Assignments Learning
Outcome(s)
1. Develop a sample list of nursing diagnoses related 7, 9
to spiritual stress as the etiology of another problem.
Discuss appropriate nursing interventions for these
diagnoses involving spiritual problems.
2. In a written report, describe how therapeutic 6
communication skills using appropriate interview
questions and observation skills are used to meet
spirituality needs.
Group Assignments Learning Outcomes
1. Your teacher will divide the class into small groups 3, 4, 9
and assign each group a religion that is prevalent in
the community. As a group, research health beliefs
and health care practices related to your assigned
religion. Distinguish practices and beliefs that are life
, Group Assignments Learning Outcomes
affirming from those that are life denying. Develop
nursing considerations for each religion, describing the
specific nursing measures you would use if caring for a
patient of this religion. Share your group’s results with
the rest of the class.
2. Discuss in small groups how to handle the 2, 3
following situations:
A woman who is terminally ill asks, “How
could God let this happen to me?”
A patient of a faith very different from yours
asks you to pray with him.
A patient refuses a needed blood transfusion
on religious grounds.
Clinical Assignments Learning Outcome
1. Interview two or more hospitalized patients or 8
patients in a residential health care setting to
determine their spiritual needs. What is nursing’s
responsibility to meet these needs, and how can this
