The nurse with an alabaster jar
Subtitle: a Biblical approach to nursing
By: Mary Elizabeth O'Brien.
Publisher: NCF Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Nursing -- Religious aspects.; Nursing ethics.; Christian life.; Caring -- Religious aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-226).
Table of contents: value: The nurse with an alabaster jar. The Bible and the Christian nursing community ; Contemporary nursing and the Bible ; Old Testament spirituality ; New Testament spirituality ; Contemporary nursing and the Bible ; The nurse with an alabaster jar; value: The Bible in nursing history. The biblical call to healing ; Florence Nightingale and the Bible ; The Bible in nursing literature ; The Bible in the ministries of twentieth century nurses ; The Bible in contemporary nursing practice ; A biblical approach to caring for the sick : nurses' stories; value: The Bible and the nurse's calling. The biblical call to care for the sick ; A biblical theology of nursing ; Beatitudes for nurses ; Praying the Bible : lectio divina ; Breaking your "alabaster jar" : the wounded healer; value: The Bible and the nurse-patient relationship. A sacred covenant ; Use of touch : listening with the heart ; The problem of suffering : music and the Bible ; Liturgical ministry to the sick ; Nursing theory and research; value: A biblical approach to caring for the acutely ill. Acute illness ; Pain and anxiety ; Life threatening illness ; The hospitalized patient ; Caregiving in mass casualty disasters; value: A biblical approach to caring for the chronically ill. Chronic illness ; Fear and depression ; Home health care ; The homeless ; The disabled ; The mentally challenged; value: A biblical approach to caring for sick children and their families. Stages of faith development ; Pre-school children ; School-age children ; Adolescents ; A child with life-threatening illness ; The family of an ill child; value: The Bible and caring for the older adult. The aging process ; Physical diminishment of aging ; Nursing home resident ; Cognitive diminishment of aging ; The social diminishment of aging ; Facing the future as an older adult ; Uncertainty and hope; value: A biblical approach to ministering in death and bereavement. Death and bereavement ; The dying adult ; Death in a hospital or hospice ; A dying child ; The family of a dying patient ; The bereavement process.