A Theory of Nonphysical Suffering and Trust in Hospice Patients

Sacks, Jodi L.; Nelson, Jerald C.

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“…For older adults in long term care, trust meant opening up to the nurses on a summer holiday for people suffering from dementia about issues they might otherwise not have revealed to others [38]. Trust was central for patients suffering from chronic mental illness [39]. Trust can be shattered by suffering and linked to believing in one's own constructed reality, which enabled hope and provided meaning.…”

Section: Experiences Of Trust Through Feeling Safe Accepted and Carementioning

confidence: 99%

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Patients’ Experiences of Trust in the Patient-Nurse Relationship—A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies

Rørtveit¹,

Hansen²,

Leiknes³

et al. 2015

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Section: Experiences Of Trust Through Feeling Safe Accepted and Carementioning

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“…Trust can be shattered by suffering and linked to believing in one's own constructed reality, which enabled hope and provided meaning. Three categories of trust were developed in this context: the dynamic experience of trust, losing trust and dealingto regain trust [39].…”

Section: Experiences Of Trust Through Feeling Safe Accepted and Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Patients’ Experiences of Trust in the Patient-Nurse Relationship—A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies

Rørtveit¹,

Hansen²,

Leiknes³

et al. 2015

OJN

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“…56 Suffering includes physical, psychological, social and spiritual domains. 57 For the purpose of this paper, suffering is broadly conceptualized as both physical and non-physical suffering. Non-physical suffering is characterized by loss of meaning, purpose, connectedness, and a sense of hopelessness (Fig.…”

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Spirituality and suffering of patients with heart failure

Westlake

Dyo²,

Vollman³

et al. 2008

Progress in Palliative Care

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2008) Spirituality and suffering of patients with heart failure, Progress in Palliative Care, 16:5-6, 257-265 To link to this article: http://dx.Heart failure is the terminal stage of cardiac disease and, as such, potentially involves spiritual issues and suffering. Spirituality has been shown to be related to adaptation, life satisfaction, and depression. Further, as depression is an independent predictor of mortality in patients with heart failure, spirituality is important for clinicians to consider. Patients with heart failure are disadvantaged compared to patients with other terminal diseases. The heart failure illness trajectory is unpredictable and the potential for sudden, unanticipated death exists. The management of end-stage heart failure is often associated with distressing symptoms, multiple hospitalizations and the potential for suffering. Patients are often less likely to understand their illness, have access to supportive care and have the opportunity to plan for death and dying. Unmet spiritual needs and suffering may go under diagnosed and treated. This suggests the need for a more palliative approach emphasizing the optimization of multidimensional life satisfaction and the relief of suffering. The purpose of this article is to focus primarily on spirituality and suffering, spiritual needs, and related interventions for patients living (and potentially suffering) with heart failure. Traditionally, care has been focused on meeting the physical suffering needs of patients, such as breathlessness, pain and fatigue, and to prolong life. Current thinking needs to shift to include the assessment of the psychological, social and spiritual needs and to improve life satisfaction. Interventions that have been developed for other chronic, terminally ill patients are described and new, potentially helpful interventions are proposed.

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“…For a person suffering with chronic pain, the experience is nearly constant, and thus can itself become a source of a particular kind of meaning, or at least form of life. Sacks and Nelson, in their study of the meaning of pain, described how some persons do not want their pain removed (Sacks and Nelson 2007). According to Bakan (1968), this is a result of the "I," who, feeling threatened by annihilation, attempts to fuse this fear of annihilation back with the pain and thus have a modicum of control over the uncontrollable suffering of the I-in-fear-ofannihilation (p. 83).…”

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Simone Weil’s Passion Mysticism: The Paradox of Chronic Pain and the Transformation of the Cross

Helsel

2008

Pastoral Psychol

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Simone Weil's theology is deeply connected to her experiences with chronic pain. Pain is paradoxical in that it is an essentially private phenomenon yet it simultaneously demands to be shared with another. Weil's life and thought exemplify both aspects of this paradox, demonstrating how her pain alienated her from her own body and from others, and how her thought found full expression as she attempted to share experiences with pain. Weil's experience of pain was transformed in her passion mysticism, the deep connection she felt with the crucified Christ. In this connection, the most unbearable aspect of her pain, the threat, which it presented to her very self through annihilation, was absorbed into the cross and transformed by God's love. While this did not necessarily diminish Weil's pain, the meaning it had for her as a person was transformed through an encounter with Christ crucified, in which she experienced God's suffering along with her.

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A Theory of Nonphysical Suffering and Trust in Hospice Patients

Cited by 22 publications

References 23 publications

Patients’ Experiences of Trust in the Patient-Nurse Relationship—A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies

Patients’ Experiences of Trust in the Patient-Nurse Relationship—A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies

Spirituality and suffering of patients with heart failure

Simone Weil’s Passion Mysticism: The Paradox of Chronic Pain and the Transformation of the Cross

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