Nurses
21st Century Evangelists?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/hscc.v8.i2.3Keywords:
caring, feminist, gender, nurse, religious, spiritual, sufferingAbstract
This article discusses the outcomes of a doctoral study into why nurses are asked to give spiritual care to patients. Tensions between bodily nursing care and spiritual care were explored in semi-structured interviews with eighteen experienced nurses. Interview materials were interpreted within feminist frameworks of caring and spiritualities as patriarchal constructions rooted in Christianities. Themes of nursing care described as spiritual demonstrated that body/spirit dualisms persisted despite secularisms. However, since spiritual care remained a confused and nebulous concept, how the addition of spiritual care by nurses will remedy the stresses and distressed described in the study is questioned.
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HAMPSON D. 1990 Theology and Feminism, Blackwell, Oxford.
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HOCHSCHILD A. 1983 The Managed Heart, Commercialisation of Human Feeling, University of California, Berkeley.
KING U. 1997 Spirituality in HINNELS J. (ed.) A New Handbook of Living Religions, Blackwell, Oxford pp. 667-81.
JANTZEN G. 1995 Power, Gender and Christian Mysticism Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
LAWER J. 1991 Behind the Screens: Nursing, Somology, and the Problem of the Body, Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh.
LEONARD D. & SPEAKMAN M. 1986 ‘Women in the Family: Companions or Caretakers?’ In V. BEECHING & E. WHITELEGG (eds.) Women in Britain Today, Open University Press, London.
LISTER R. 1997 Citizenship: Feminist Perspective, McMillan. London
MACE G. 1999 Five Images that Open Minds, The Guardian, p.5.
NURSING and MIDWIFERY COUNCIL 2004 Code of Professional Conduct, London, NMC.
PATEMAN C. 1988 The Sexual Contract. Stanford, Stanford University Press.
ROSS L. 1997 Nurses’ Perceptions of Spiritual Care, Avebury, Hants
SAVAGE J. 1995 Nursing Intimacy: An Ethnographic Approach to Nurse- Patient Interaction, Scutari, London.
SMITH P. 1992 The Emotional Labour of Nursing, How nurses care, Macmillan, London.
STOLL R. 1979 Guidelines for Spiritual Assessment American, Journal of Nursing 79 1574-1577.
SYDIE R. 1987 Natural Women, Cultured Men, a feminist perspective on sociological theory, Open University Press, Buckingham.
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2013-04-08
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Grosvenor, D. (2013). Nurses: 21st Century Evangelists?. Health and Social Care Chaplaincy, 8(2), 3-8. https://doi.org/10.1558/hscc.v8.i2.3
