Exploring Sacred Moments in Hospitalized Patients: An Exploratory Qualitative Study

Quinn, Martha; Fowler, Karen E.; Harrod, Molly; Ehrlinger, Rachel; Engle, Jason M.; Houchens, Nathan; Saint, Sanjay

doi:10.1007/s11606-022-07999-z

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“…An example in the setting of patient care is the concept of “sacred moments”: deeply meaningful (and often brief) experiences with patients that may lead to joy. 42 The crucial step is the pause to ask the question and to think broadly about where we experience joy.…”

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Sustaining Joy in Serious Neurologic Illnesses

Seshadri,

Hauser,

Kluger

2024

Semin Neurol

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The goals of medicine tend to be framed around addressing suffering, pathology, and functional deficits. While this is a natural orientation when dealing with serious illness, it is also incomplete and neglects significant opportunities to improve the quality of life of patients, families, and clinicians. The “total enjoyment of life” is a multidimensional framework that can serve as a positive counterbalance to the “total pain of illness.” It allows clinicians, researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders to take a systematic and comprehensive approach to the active promotion of well-being. The five opportunities for enhancing well-being in this framework are meaning, social connections, happiness/contentment, spiritual transcendence, and pleasure. Applying these concepts in clinical settings, patients, families, and clinicians can together find opportunities to increase the total enjoyment of life in the face of incurable and intractable illnesses. For family care partners, these concepts can be applied to improve self-care, enhance relationships, and develop more creative approaches to supporting a loved one living with illness. Clinicians working with these concepts may find their clinical work more satisfying and impactful and can also apply these concepts to their own lives to increase wellness. In clinical research, this framework can be applied to improve intervention effectiveness and relevance of outcome measures. Lastly, these concepts have the potential to impact public health approaches that focus on well-being and flourishing as the goal and metric of a healthy society.

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Sustaining Joy in Serious Neurologic Illnesses

Seshadri,

Hauser,

Kluger

2024

Semin Neurol

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“…2,3 Mindfulness, religiosity, and practices such as yoga and meditation may help healthcare workers experience "sacred moments" (defined as "brief periods of time in which people experience a deep interconnectedness that may possess spiritual qualities and emotions") with patients. 4,5 These moments may in turn create a sense of joy, peace, and empathy and in doing so, may alleviate stress and burnout during work. 4 Limited data are available concerning the link between spirituality and measures of well-being among IPs.…”

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The influence of spirituality, religiosity, and self-care on well-being among Thai infection preventionists during the COVID-19 pandemic

Apisarnthanarak,

Greene,

Collier

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ASPEN international survey on ethical competencies dealing with decision‐making in the use of artificially administered nutrition and hydration and competency application in clinical practice

Schwartz,

Sumner,

Cardenas

et al. 2024

Nut in Clin Prac

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BackgroundEthical competencies dealing with decision‐making for clinicians involved in artificially administered nutrition and hydration (AANH) have not been defined in the literature. Although clinical assessments identify nutrition needs and appropriate routes of nutrition administration, an assessment of the ethical, cultural, and spiritual implications of the medical nutrition therapy may be overlooked.MethodsEleven competency statements were developed by members of two international sections of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. This descriptive cross‐sectional survey study was conducted to measure the importance of the competency statements to the membership of two sections using a five‐point Likert scale of 1–5 (1‐low to 5‐high).ResultsA total of 113 responses (12.5% response rate) were obtained predominantly from physicians and dietitians from 25 countries. There was a wide range of world regions of the 49% respondents outside of the United States. Means and SDs were calculated for agreement with the 11 competency statements with overall means ranging from 4.32 to 4.67. Most of the participants cared for adult/older adult patients (63.7%) exclusively, and 12.4% cared for pediatric/neonate patients exclusively; the remainder (23.9%) cared for both populations. Respondents reported they were either experienced, competent, or expert (88.6%) in dealing with ethical issues related to AANH.ConclusionThis international interdisciplinary group agreed that the integration of ethical, cultural, and spiritual competencies into clinical decision‐making regarding artificially AANH is important.

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Exploring Sacred Moments in Hospitalized Patients: An Exploratory Qualitative Study

Cited by 4 publications

References 25 publications

Sustaining Joy in Serious Neurologic Illnesses

Sustaining Joy in Serious Neurologic Illnesses

The influence of spirituality, religiosity, and self-care on well-being among Thai infection preventionists during the COVID-19 pandemic

ASPEN international survey on ethical competencies dealing with decision‐making in the use of artificially administered nutrition and hydration and competency application in clinical practice

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