College of Health Sciences

Department of Nursing

PEN Code: GEN 017 Credit: 3 units

PEN Subject Title: Religions, Religious Experiences and Spirituality Prerequisite: None

A. Course Description:
This course, also known as Spiritual Nursing, deals with the development of spiritual
formation and role of nurses in providing spiritual care.

B. Objectives:
At the end of the course, you should be able to:
1. The students will be able to discuss spiritual care in relation to nursing practice.
2. Collaborates with people, families, religious groups, demographic groups, communities,
and society to ensure active involvement in the delivery of comprehensive healthcare in a
holistic approach.
3. Play a compassionate role in the promotion of health, illness prevention, restoration of
health, reduction of pain, and, when recovery is not possible, aiding patients in dying
peacefully.
4. Evaluate and implement the nursing process and therapeutic communication, as well as
the influence of religion and spirituality on people's lives.

Term 1
Objective: The students will be able to discuss spiritual care in relation to nursing practice.

Week Activity Task/s

1 Orientation
Self-assessment: Spirituality
:
Knowledge/Understanding
2 Concept development: Spiritual and Spiritual
Nursing
3 Concept development: Religions and belief in
relation to spiritual care
Individual: Diagnostic Test
Individual: Reflection
Group output: Group report
Religions and belief in relation to spiritual care
Group presentation:
10-15 slides per group

Class participation: Each group must

summarize all the reports in 2-3 pages using
APA format.
4 Concept development: Characteristics of Compare and contrast a person in distress and
Spiritual Health spiritually healthy

List of Spiritual needs Group output: Table of contrast

 Individual: Read the story of Job (Old
testament) and Paul (New Testament)

Group Processing: Have you experience

spiritual distress related to the stories?

Group output: Signs of Spiritual distress

Cues and clues that indicate spiritual distress

5 QUIZ# 1 and Rationale Practice Questions

6 P1 examination Individual output: Essay

What is Spiritual Nursing?

What are the roles of nurses to patients to

maintain spiritual health?

What are the roles of nurses to patients who

are suffering of spiritual distress?

Do religion and belief practices affect the

spirituality of a nurse? How about the patient?
What if the nurses’ belief is in contrast to the
patient? How should it be resolved?

Term 2
Objective: The students will be able to value the importance of spiritual care in relation to
nursing practice.

Week Activity Task/s

7 Concept development: Roles of Nurses in Individual Output: Enumerate the roles and
Spiritual Health responsibilities of nurses

8 Concept: The Importance of Spiritual Nursing Group activity: Submit a gist of a study
to individual’s health and wellness regarding spirituality/spiritual nursing in
relation to health and wellness.

Group output: Summary and Reaction

Reaction: Justify if the group agrees/disagree
with the result. Claims must be properly
supported

9 Concept: Nurse as healer Teacher provides the reading materials.

Nurse as the wounded healer
Class discussion: After discussion, the teacher
instructs the following:
 Class output: Using mentimeter application,
describe how the nurse becomes the healer in
one to two words.

Using mentimeter application, describe how

the nurse becomes the wounded healer in one
to two words.

10 Concept: Spiritual Development Individual output: Each student must submit

any picture reflecting the spiritual practices of
individuals depending on their age.
Infancy to Elderly

Class discussion: Arranging the pictures based

on the age
11 Nursing Spiritual Assessment Individual output: Each of the student nurse
Teacher provides the guide in the spiritual will assess his/her spirituality using the tool
assessment
12 QUIZ #2 and Rationale Practice Questions
13 P2 examination Group output: Essay

Watch a Movie that foster reflection, spiritual

growth.
Make a reflection paper and write about
what’s going on, what is the meaning of it,
you can emphasize some lines in the movie.

Guide:
How do you find spirituality in today's films?
Here's what we look for. How can you make
watching a film into a spiritual experience?
Here's what you can do.
Sometimes you hear the larger questions:
What is the meaning of my life? What are we
here for?
Films often depict people trying to discern the
significance of their lives, usually after some
kind of crisis. The images on the screen are
mirroring the everyday process by which we
both seek meaning and make meaning out of
what happens to us. Movies offer us a
veritable smorgasbord of spiritual learning.
Now, find the same with your chosen movie.
Life is a sacred adventure. We are partners
with God, and though our role in the on-going
creation may be small, we are still encouraged
to give it our best. At the movies, we see
countless examples of individuals trying to
sing their own songs. Some are off-key; others
can't even make a sound. But all of them, like
us, are trying to rise to the moment. Good
examples of movies about the spiritual
practice of you are coming-of-age stories in
 which young people stake out their own
course in the world, and films about people
reassessing their vocation or recognizing their
destiny. They are discovering their mission,
should they choose to accept it.
The spiritual practice of zeal means to be
passionately aroused by life. We can take part
of its measure in films where we see heroic
individuals struggling to be free, to love
others, to cherish every moment, to honor
their commitments, and to square off against
death. These are people who act with heart,
mind, and soul in concert. They are your
spiritual mentors, and you can find them at
the movies.

Terms 3

Objective: The students will be able to demonstrate spiritual care in a simulated situation
observing holistic care.

Week Activity Task/s

13 Discussion of P2 exam Class discussion

Individual output: Mantra of the week to be

posted in the social media
A screenshot must be uploaded in the Google
classroom for ASP

Teacher provides the case for reflection*.

14-15 Reapplying therapeutic communication Part Implement nursing care measures to patients
1-2 using therapeutic communication.

Use appropriate techniques to improve

communication with patients giving care.
16 Ethical boundaries of spiritual care Evaluating the importance of ethics to patients
seeking spiritually nourishing health care.

Describe how a nurse might assist to sustain

nursing ethics while addressing patients'
spiritual needs.
17 Spiritual Needs Teacher provides cases and students prepare
for the simulation
18 QUIZ# 3 and Rationale Practice Questions
19 P3 examination & Reflection Each presents their videos based from the
case given*.
Individual output: Reflection
 References:

O'Brien, M.E. (2011) Spirituality in Nursing Standing on Holy Ground. 4th Edition, Jones & Bartlett
Learning, Sudbury.

Course requirements:
● SAS
● Quizzes
● Periodical Exams
● Assignment/Projects
● Recitation/Class Participation

Grading System:
CLASS STANDING:
ASP = (Modules and other activities x 80%) + (Conduct x 20%)

Where:
▪ Q refers to Quizzes
▪ R refers to Recitation
▪ A refers to Assignments
▪ P refers to Projects

APT = Periodical Test Score

(Term Exam) TERM GRADE: (ASP
+ APT) / 2

The FINAL GRADE is computed as follows:

FG= (0.20 T1) + (0.20 T2) + (0.20 T3) + (0.40 FE)

Passing grade: 60%

Where:
▪ FG refers to the Final Grade
▪ T1 refers to the 1st Term Grade
▪ T2 refers to the 2nd Term Grade
▪ T3 refers to the 3rd Term Grade
▪ FE refers to the Final

Examination Prepared by:

Instructor: Rosenda Niturada Jaramillo R.N., M.A.N, PhD N.S.

Email add: rnjaramillo.au@phinmaed.com

Instructor: Kevin Andre’ R. Fajardo R.N., M.A.N.

Email add: krfajardo.up@phinmaed.com