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So, good morning sir. My name is Jonathan Manuely and I'm from section 3IB and we
are conducting the research entitled Exploring the Arts Educators' Integration of
Spiritual Care and Spirituality in the Clinical and Classroom Settings. So, you are
the one we chose because you fit in our criteria of 3 years and above and you teach
in the classroom and in the clinical.

Sir, what is spiritual care to you? I think spiritual care is integrating your
spiritual values, religious values in teaching or being integrated to us that it
will be applicable in caring for patients. For example, in the clinical area, we
usually let our patients practice their spiritual belief and at the same time, we
let them do whatever they think that they believe, especially when it comes to
their religious belief and practice. So, can you please share to us your
perspective more about spiritualism? Sorry? Spiritualism.

When we talk about spirituality in my own perspective, I think that is one thing
that should be, because again, when caring for a patient, there are four
dimensions. We are not only talking about the physical aspect, emotional, mental,
but also it includes the spiritual. So, it's very important again to consider the
spiritual aspect because that is one way of dimension that is being forgotten.

So, when we talk about the spirituality aspect, it's all working, we look at the
religious belief of the person, the belief or perspective of the person to the
Supreme Being and how this practice or belief affects the health situation of that
person. Does it affect when you pray? Does it affect when you practice your
meditation? When you connect to the Supreme Being? So, I guess that is
spirituality. Can you please share to us how you incorporate spirituality in your
teaching practice? Classroom setting.

So, in classroom setting, as I always mention in the Fundamentals of Nursing, it is

integrated in caring to our patient. So, as I mentioned earlier, in spirituality,
you integrate that one. You consider the religious practices of that person because
again, when you let that person assess the religious factor, or when that person
loves that religious factor, I guess that is also a way of affecting the health of
the person.

So, let that person again practice his religious or belief and we believe that can
help him to recover from his current or from illness or to obtain the maximum level
of wellness. Thank you, Sir. And then, can you share an experience as a nurse
educator that you include spirituality in your classroom? In my case, let's say for
example, when I give examples to our patients, let's say for example, there is a
Christian patient.

So, when a Christian student, when we let them ask, we pray before they start the
class, we let them do that one because in that way, we let the student help them to
express their religious belief and their spiritual belief. I guess that could also
help them to create a mood and to create an atmosphere that is at ease for them to
learn and to calm the class before starting the lesson for them. Sir, how do you
balance the integration of spirituality in the aspect of nursing education? With
the aspect of spirituality, again, as I said earlier, incorporating spirituality in
the aspect of nursing education is very important.

We will say that it's one dimension where it's always being left. So, balancing, I
guess we will always reiterate that again, spirituality is very important. We
integrate that one in the practice of a person.

Let's say for example, in teaching my students, we always consider their religious
belief, cultural background. So, that is very important. So, do you know how to
deal with the person? Do you know how to create a comprehensive nursing care plan
for your client? So, that's always, I think, I reiterate to my students because
again, this spiritual aspect of the person is very important to consider when
giving care to our patient.

So, what is the spiritual, can you please share to us how do you integrate the
spiritual care in the clinical setting, in the hospital setting? With regards to
clinical practice, so that is already an application of what we have learned or
what we discussed in the classroom. So, when we are there already, we let them
practice praying, we let them practice their, what do you call that one? When it
comes to their, what do you call that one? When it comes to their religious belief.
So, in that way, we are promoting their freedom to express, freedom to practice or
their belief in spirituality.

Which I guess that will help them to recover from illness. And aside from that,
there is also one way of maintaining human stasis within the dimensions of health.
That is composed of your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspect.

Because again, as we said, those aspects should be in balance and should be looked
into when we talk about health of a certain individual. So, sir, what is the
hemostasis? When we say hemostasis, that is balance. Balance among those
dimensions, your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspect.

So, I always say when I teach, we do not only look at, because sometimes when we
talk about health, we only see the physical aspect. There is no problem, there is
no complaint. But then again, that is not it.

We have to go beyond and look at the other dimension. One dimension that you
mentioned is the spiritual aspect which is being led. So, do we let that person
practice his spiritual belief? Is he free to do that one? Because again, the
spiritual belief or the spiritual aspect of a person is very important.

Because that is again the relationship of a person to a supreme being. So, that is
a big help in boosting that person to maintain balance and maintaining health with
regards or interconnected with your physical, mental, and emotional aspect. Aside
from what I mentioned, that is your spiritual aspect.

Sir, how do you lead and instruct a student nurse to deliver the spiritual support
to the patients while they are in the hospital? I can share that one story. So,
what I always tell them is sometimes, especially with patients with critical
illness already, so degenerative diseases, a person will experience hopelessness, a
person will be depressed, the person will be, I think the term is not anti-social,
or not keen in meeting people and sometimes questioning the supreme being, why did
I become this way? So, in that way, I always instruct them to look at that aspect
wherein the spiritual aspect to re-establish or taunting or boosting the
relationship with God. Because I believe in the power of prayer, I believe also in
the power of the supreme being.

When you do your meditation, you do your heart-to-heart talk, that is the spiritual
aspect, heart-to-heart talk with the supreme being. So, that's why you have to give
time for the patient, privacy of the patient to do that one. Because again, it's
not that you can practice that one in front of the person, but again, it's better
to practice it in private.

Because the more time that you will be giving, the more that you will be giving
time in practicing the spiritual aspect, or taunting or boosting that one, or
advising the person to reconnect with the supreme being, pray, you relay all your
beliefs, all your problems, talk to the supreme being. I believe that that is also
one way of healing the emotional aspect and practicing the spiritual aspect of that
person, which also a big help again in the recovery of the patient. So, could you
provide a specific clinical experience for a spiritual care patient, how you guide
the nurse and student to this situation? Yes, especially when we assign a patient
in critical care, you know very well that patients in critical care are
complicated.

So, sometimes there is hopelessness. So, I told my student, so hopelessness, but

then again, let them in that time of darkness, because again, that's a very
difficult time. There is one something that they will hold on to, the spiritual
aspect, the faith that they have, the hope that they have, when they reconnect to
the supreme being, that is your practicing, your spirituality or your spiritual
aspect of that person.

Of course, we always say that one in a nice way, and we respect also the belief of
that person, but then again, primarily saying, primarily being there with the
patient, and boosting to that person the hope and faith that the person is holding
on to. So, I guess that is one way of practicing the spiritual aspect in the
clinical area. That's what I teach to the patients.

So, thank you, sir. I hope you will tell my answer and turn your last question.

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