Includes bibliographical references and index.

Should spiritual care be taught in nursing education? Should nursing claim healing as part of its mission? What do recent brain studies tell us about spirituality? These are some of the fundamental questions addressed in this book for practitioners, nurses, nurse managers, educators, and students. Barnum, a nursing educator affiliated with New York University, examines spirituality in nursing from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing from theoretical, historical, religious, psychological, and even physiological contexts. She traces nursing's involvement in spirituality, from its historical ties with religion to the current interest in alternative and complementary health modalities, and explores areas such as spiritual versus religious orientations, levels of spiritual development, spirituality versus humanism, and protecting the patient's spiritual privacy. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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