touching a patient may not constitute as spiritual care. These behaviors, however, grounded in a nurse’s spiritual philosophy of life such take on the element of ministry; they constitute the nurse’s theology of caring (O’Brien, 2014). Megan, a Nurse Practitioner in Community Health said in O’Brien’s book that when she is nursing, she feels like she is ministering to the person. As Christians we need to take care of the sick, when we care for them, we are in fact caring for the Lord (p. 87, 2014).
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