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Course: Nurse Virtues: Foundation of Ethics & Spiritual Care

Trinity Counseling LLC now offering Chaplaincy services, Spiritual Healthcare Education courses, seminars, webinars, and Individual Spiritual Direction.

Trinity Counseling LLC provides nursing spiritual care courses, including a free monthly small group discussion group for nurses and other healthcare professionals offered by Chaplain Teresa Durbak Sipos DMin, RN.

This course is designed to enhance holistic clinical practice outcomes for both patients and healthcare professionals, specifically addressing Spiritual Distress and Moral Injury. Participants are encouraged to partner with their organization's chaplain, if available. Ideally, spiritual healthcare is holistic healthcare applied to clinical practice. 

This course provides an introduction to spiritual care and an opportunity for open discussion, reflection and group process of the other 1/3 of healthcare: spiritual healthcare. Defining spiritual healthcare provides a deeper understanding and glossary of spiritual terms, and teaches integration of spiritual care with appropriate clinical interventions, improving the ability of nurses and clinicians to provide excellent integrated spiritual and clinical care. This course is also intended as a confidential support to nurses and other clinicians and only the lecture portion will be recorded, allowing anonymous live discussions monthly.  

Key concepts:

• Reflection
• Glossary of terms
• Lecture on boundaries
• Research
• Resources
• Examples

What is Reflection?

• Not being on "auto-pilot" or reacting
• Taking time to think, feel, process, make an informed decision, and respond appropriately
• "Reflection is a process which helps you gain insight into your professional practice by thinking analytically about any element of it. The insights developed, and lessons learned, can be applied to maintain good practice, and can also lead to developments and improvements for both the professional and their service users."
• Utilizes he clinical method of learning—action, reflection, action
• An example for theological reflection: The Good Samaritan
• Theologian's comment: "Nurses see things as they really are". 
• See Power Point notes for further definition of nurses' Reflective Practice.