"These resources are excellent for nursing students, nurses who are employed in a variety of clinical settings, and professionals who work with nurses."

U.S. NCF groups wanting to use these resources please email Bonnie for special discount pricing.

1) Spirituality
22 minutes $175 U.S. — 1999 (Print-out Mail-in Order Form)
This video program examines the concept of spirituality, exploring the diversity of meanings and themes given to the term and distinguishing it from religion. Various expressions of spirituality are illustrated. Viewers are stimulated to reflect on their own spirituality.

2) Nurses & Spiritual Care
23 minutes $175 U.S. — 1999 (Print-out Mail-in Order Form)
This video program explains the rationale for and principles of nursing involvement in spiritual care, describes qualities in the nurse which are conducive to providing effective spiritual care, identifies specific spiritual interventions and discusses the partnership between nursing and pastoral care workers. Challenges and barriers to providing spiritual care are also explored.

3) Spiritual Assessment
35 minutes $175 U.S. — 1999 (Print-out Mail-in Order Form)
This video discusses the role of the nurse in spiritual assessment, as well as the focus and principles of spiritual assessment. Stoll's Guidelines for Spiritual Assessment are used to interview three clients - a women with fibromyalgia, a man who had villis adenoma, and a woman who has manic depressive illness and is HIV positive.

4) Spirituality in Mental Health Care
26 minutes $175 U.S. — 2003 (Print-out Mail-in Order Form)
This video explains the rationale for incorporating spirituality into mental health care. Expressions of spirituality that nurture mental health are described. How a mental illness could impact a person's life, including the spiritual dimension, is explored. Unique aspects relative to mental illness that have implications for spiritual care are discussed. Key spiritual issues and needs experienced by persons who have a mental illness are identified. The role of the nurse in providing spiritual care to persons experiencing mental illness is illustrated throughout the video.

5) Spirituality in Palliative Care
21 minutes $175 U.S. — 2003 (Print-out Mail-in Order Form)
This video illustrates how death and dying impacts on both a client's spirituality and family members' spirituality. Key spiritual issues and needs that come to the forefront for palliative care clients and their families are also identified. Spiritual resources that can be used in the journey through the dying process are explored. How a person's/family's spirituality may impact on responses to death is presented. The role of the nurse in providing spiritual care to palliative care clients and their families is illustrated throughout the video.

6) Spiritual Care and Life Threatening Illness
22 minutes $175 U.S. — 2003 (Print-out Mail-in Order Form)
This video illustrates how life threatening illness could impact a person's spirituality. Spiritual issues and needs are explored, as well as how a person's spirituality could impact upon his response to life threatening illness. Spiritual resources that can be used to deal with such illnesses are identified. The role of the nurse in providing spiritual care to persons experiencing life threatening illness is illustrated throughout the video.

7) Spiritual Care in Gerontological Nursing
19 minutes $175 U.S. — 2003 (Print-out Mail-in Order Form)
This video focuses on how spirituality is expressed and nurtured in older adults. Key spiritual issues and spiritual needs are examined, including those pertaining to the cognitively impaired older adult. Qualities of the nurse or within the nurse-client relationship that are conducive to providing spiritual care to older adults is portrayed.

8) Spiritual Care and Chronic Heath Problems
19 minutes $175 U.S. — 2003 (Print-out Mail-in Order Form)
This video identifies key characteristics of chronic health problems and how those characteristics could impact on a person's spirituality. Spiritual practices that nurture spirituality are described. Key spiritual issues and needs experienced by persons with chronic health problems are identified. The role of the nurse in providing spiritual care to persons experiencing chronic health problems is illustrated throughout the video.

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Accompanying each of the videos is a Facilitator's Guide that outlines the video background, objectives and content. It also provides questions and exercises for pre and post viewing of the video. Included in each Guide are references on the subject matter of the video.

Each video sells individually for $175 US
+ $10 US Shipping & Handling

Purchase the entire series of 8 videos for $900 US
+ $20 US Shipping & Handling

If ordering 2-7 videos, please contact Doreen for Shipping & Handling fees.

To order or to request a preview use the Print-out Mail-in Order Form or contact:
Doreen Westera, MScN, MEd
Associate Professor
School of Nursing
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NF, CANADA A1B 3V6
Tel: 709/777-7259 - office (709/745-1201- home)
Fax: 709-777-7037
Doreen Westera email