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Praying and geriatric nursing care: spiritual nursing

Sora Yasri, Viroj Wiwanitkit

Abstract


Spiritual care is an important concern in holistic nursing. The religious based practice might be a good tool for supporting spiritual nursing care. For geriatric patient, the attachment to religious belief and practice is common. Praying is common daily activity of the elderly in many countries. To use praying as additional tool to manage medical disorder is very interesting. The praying might be by the patients, cousins or medical personnel such as nurse. The application of praying might be useful and becomes an interesting additional spiritual nursing tool in geriatric nursing.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijgn.v1i2.756

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