1. Facilitating and Promoting Spirituality of Nursing & all Health Professions (NHPs) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia A Histo-Documentary Analysis with Simple Pilot supportive survey of the NHPs & Students Perceptions A Scientific Poster resented at SAMRM CONFERENCE Facilitating Spiritual Wellbeing: The Essence of Holistic Nursing & Health April 7-10, 2010, San Antonio, Texas By Eisa Ali Johali
3. The Results
1. Abstract
Reasoning:
Spirit and spirituality are` my concern for longtime, Although we always hear and read the concepts "spirit and spirituality" and they frequently used daily talking, they are not well noticed within health, health care and health professions in our society. Meanwhile, spirituality is not a part of the WHO definition of health. Based on my believe that there is no health without spirituality, I conduct this study.
Purpose & Objectives:
- Explore the place of Spirit and Spirituality in the ancient civilizations with focus on Islam, mainly the Holy Quran, which covers all the stories and events of ancient civilizations.
- Analyze related evidence that may facilitate Spirituality in Nursing and all Health Professions.
- Finally, since we are suffering from terrorism and terrorists, the study will explore the related evidence of the positive or negative effects on terrorism.
Results:
As is expected, Spirit and Spirituality are part of both the history and religions of civilizations. Spirituality can be traced to the God, the Creator of the universe and all its living beings. It started with Adam, our old father. All the prophets, mainly Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed (Peace Be Upon Him all) taught it as the way to peaceful living In health and nursing, spirituality is traced back to the Code of Hammurabi and the Hippocratic Oath. It is promoted within the morals of Muslims’ great civilization (6 – 17 AD), and advanced by Florence Nightingale about All the religions and humanity are concerned with spiritually as the way of doing right and avoiding doing wrong. Therefore, it must be used to facilitate and promote the quality of nursing and all health professions’ practice and education. It must also be a part of any international strategies to prevent and protect against terrorism and terrorists
3-2: Place of Spirit & Spirituality in Islam “the Holy Quran”
4. Conclusion:
Based on its nature as “Documentary Analysis Study, it stated by reviewing the literature. It is major finding concludes in:
By referring to the Western & Islamic literature regarding spirituality, I found that:
Most of the Western literature regards the Ghost
Most of Muslim literature regarding the soul after death – Ghost and Gin
Few of the Western literature regard spirituality of health and nursing care.
Non of the Muslim literature regards the spirituality of health and nursing care .
B) Meanwhile the Study endeavors to meet their Objective, it founds that:
- Spirit in its origin, is a holy essence, a pure part of body that will never support or motivate terrorists, unless we change it to be evil
3-1: Probing Spirituality
Literature & Islam
Since spirituality comes from “Spirit” it have huge meaning and concepts, the most literature health related are:
Worldwide: Religious; Believe Values; Ethics; Mediation; contemplation; Self; Nature, Devine & cosmos or unitary Universe
In Islam, almost same as above: start as name of “Allah” the Only God , then the structure of person’ Body as highly integrated three parts: Spirit + Mental + Heart
(Johali Tentative model as n outcome of deliberated outcome with my colleague Sheikh A. Al Rezgan)
Think why Spirit the Biggest ??!!
Spirituality Terms
Meanings & Synonym
Antonym
Spirituality
Soul (300 Q. Explorer): Inner self; Life-force ; Chi; Essence; heart; core; character; psyche
Ghost: Ghoul; Phantom; Apparition; Specter
Spirit (25; 272; 49 I. Explorer)
Strength: Courage; Character; Guts; Will; Strength of mind; Force; Fortitude; Moral fiber; Moral fiber; Determination; Chutzpah; Heart; Mettle;
Body: corpse dead body; cadaver; remains; carcass; stiff (rigid; firm; inflexible; hard…) deceased
Soul (7)
Person: Alive; character; individual; sort
Evil; Malevolence; Wickedness; Immorality; Sinful; Criminal; Foul; Horrible; Revolting;
Person
Feeling & pleasure: Attitude; Mood; Tendency; Atmosphere
☺ Faith (Moral\Ethical 76; 293; 45; 34;113;11)
Excellency; High Quality Happiness Today & Day After
Terrorism & Terrorists; Unpleasant; Hills
Spirit
الروح
القلب
Heart
العقل
logos
5. Recommendation
If we keep conducting research just to know the spirit and nature of Soul , we will continue wasting our time and life, because it very difficult compare to the Brain and Heart . This approved by what God says:
We should concentrate of the research of discovering of the relation of spirit to health and life strongly recommended .
Finally, this study strongly recommends further studies towards facilitating and promoting Islamic spirit and human spirituality concepts to assure high quality of health care, and to prevent and protect humanity form terrorists
2. Methodology:
My traditional Method (Johali 1995):
Plus, support sample survey
Most Pupolar Saying:
“We are not human beings having a
spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
Chaplain Dana Bratton
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey”
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Past Present Future
History Documentary Development
Spirituality
3-3: Place of Spirituality in KSA NHPs Competencies:
Despite that spirit and spirituality are common used, they are well noun as most essential part of human-bodies during life and death, both terms do not have clear place, neither with Job description, nor even with the rarely exist codes of conduct; these are two samples of NHP’s Job Descriptions:
6. The Most References & Resources :
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Reference line #4
Yet another reference goes here.
R. F. Paloutzian & C. L. Park (Eds.) Handbook of the psychology of religion and spirituality, 2005 Guilford Press
- Johali, E A (2008) A Concise Health Professions History and Ethics, Darr Al Awaiel, Damascus, Syria
Johali, EA (1995) The Philosophies and Sciences of Teaching, learning and curricuklum of Nursing in the UK & KSA, School of Education, University of Southampton, UK
- Johali, EA ( ) Health Education Lectures Note
- الروح في الكلام على أرواح الاموات والاحياء للإمام ابن قيم الجوزية (الجزء الاول والثاني) دراسة وتحقيق د. بسام العموشي، دار ابن تيمية للنشر والتوزيع والاعلام الرياض 1412/1992م
3-4: Perceptions of Spirituality Amongst Physicians; Nurses & other HPs in the KSA:
- A small survey conducts at King Fahd Medical City, Riyadh ( 23 Participants= 5 Physicians, 2 Saudi SP & 3 Non Saudi NSP; 3 non Saudi Nurses & 15 Other HPs):
50% of Saudi P did not hear the terms “Spirit & Spirituality”
50% of SP & 25% of NSP do not practice spirituality
All the SP see that there is relation between spirituality and heath
50% of NSP see that there is no relation between spirituality and health
50% of SP and all NSP see that there is relation between spirituality and health care
- Nurses: 1 (33.3%) of the (3) Nurses do not hear the terms “Spirit & Spirituality”; Meanwhile 100% do not practice spirituality nursing care; regarding relations between spirituality, health and health care; all of them see there is relation with health, and to health care.
All other HPs did hear the terms “Spirit & Spirituality except 2 Saaudis & 5 of the Saudis HPs (56%) and 1 (17%) of the non Saudi do not practice spirituality….
Regarding students pilot survey: as it is expected 12 (92%) of the students are agree that spirit is the God power and we are unable to know and learn of whom (1) strongly agree, meanwhile only 6 (46%) are agree and strongly agree that we are un able to study and learn. 11 (85%) see that there is relations between spirit, spituality, health and health care…
3-5: A Concise History & Health Gurus by Pictures
Hostorical Spirit is approved in the Holy Quran: from Adams. . .Noah … Abraham — Muses— Jesus to Mohammad (Peace Be Upon Them All”; Then, the Essence to health explored Humorabi; Early Muslims’s Nurses, Phyicians and philosophers including Early Muslims Nurses eg. Rufidah..; Aveccina; Al Ghazali … & Nitangle the fammus Britsh Nurse.
al-Ghazālī ( )
Avicenna 980
Nityangle Nurse