To teach nurses and other health professionals to provide integrated holistic care safely, especially when chaplains are not available, for example during Covid-19. The focus is to address patient Spiritual Distress and support nurses suffering from Moral Injury.
Nurse Virtues: Foundation of Ethics & Spiritual Care Course Disclosure Statement
Criteria for successful completion:
Absence of relevant financial relationship with an ineligible company:
No one with the ability to control content of this educational activity has a relevant financial relationship with an ineligible company.
Course expiration date:
Expiration Date August 31, 2028.
Approval statement:
This continuing education activity was approved by the Ohio Nurses Association, an Ohio Board of Nursing approver. (OBN-001-91) Three (3) contact hours will be awarded.
All courses teach basic skills providing emergent spiritual care for suffering patients as part of normative nursing care since the inception of professional nursing with Florence Nightingale. This course is helpful for other health care professionals as well. Discussion includes respectful dialogue of all faith traditions found in patient care.
Free monthly discussion groups available.
See extensive research, nursing and pastoral and moral theology resources which will be discussed in class.
See significant positive research outcomes related to spiritual care, especially when adressing nurse depression and suicide.
Teresa Durbak Sipos DMin, RN serves as a behavioral healthcare chaplain and has taught mental health & addictions nursing for many years at three state universities.
Teresa is the author of "Integrating Spiritual Healthcare Interventions into Nursing Praxis: An Educational Intervention" and "Spiritual interventions may alleviate moral injury and depression among nurses".
Teresa was awarded the St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta Service Award by the Central Ohio Catholic Medical Association, chairs the Catholic Nurses Columbus Council of the National Association of Catholic Nurses (https://nacn-usa.org/) and serves on the board for the International Institute for Trauma Recovery.
As a speaker at national nursing and chaplain conferences, and the recent St. John Paul II Foundation bioethics conference at the Pontifical College Josephinum, Teresa also provides a more in-depth reflective nursing and clinical spirituality course, which is available at your healthcare facility, parish retreat center, and on-line.
This nursing and clinical spirituality course was developed as practical moral theology, bioethics, and pastoral healthcare with appropriate clinical interventions. The hope and prayer is for holistic healing of patients, clinicians, and nurses.
Both Teresa and husband Gene serve as Missionaries of the Precious Blood Companions and live in central Ohio near their children and grandchildren, with their rescue dog Bleu.
