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Nursing keeps changing. The role of the nurse grew out of a
Christian understanding of the human person as created in the image
of God, and viewed the body as a living unity and the "temple of
the Holy Spirit" (1 Cor 6:19). Contemporary nursing, however, is
increasingly characterized by a diminished understanding of
personhood. The impact on patient care has proven confusing and
discouraging to many nurses. In the newly revised and expanded
Called to Care: A Christian Worldview for Nursing, Judith Allen
Shelly and Arlene B. Miller define nursing for today based on a
historically and theologically grounded understanding of the
nurse's call: Nursing is a ministry of compassionate care for the
whole person, in response to God's grace toward a sinful world,
which aims to foster optimum health (shalom) and bring comfort in
suffering and death for anyone in need. Called to Care asserts that
nursing is a vocation, giving nurses a framework for understanding
their mission and living out their calling: service to God through
caring for others.
Nursing is a vocation: a calling from God to care for others. The
role of the nurse originally grew out of a holistic Christian
understanding of humans as created in the image of God. Yet as
nursing and healthcare continue to change, the effects have proven
disorienting to many. Now more than ever, we need nurses who are
committed both to a solid understanding of their profession and to
caring well for patients and their families. For over twenty years,
Called to Care has served as a unique and essential resource for
nurses. In this third edition Judith Allen Shelly and Arlene B.
Miller, now joined by coauthor Kimberly H. Fenstermacher, present a
definition for nursing based on a historically and theologically
grounded vision of the nurse's call: Nursing is a ministry of
compassionate and restorative care for the whole person, in
response to God's grace, which aims to promote and foster optimum
health (shalom) and bring comfort in suffering and death for anyone
in need. Focusing on the features of the nursing
metaparadigm-person, health, environment, and nursing-they provide
a framework for understanding how the Christian faith relates to
the many aspects of a nurse's work, from theory to everyday
practice. This new edition of Called to Care is thoroughly revised
for today's nurses, including updated examples and new content on
topics such as cultural competency, palliative care, and the
current state of healthcare and nursing education. Each chapter
features learning objectives, discussion questions, case studies,
and theological reflections from Scripture to help readers engage
and apply the content. For educators, students, and practitioners
throughout the field of nursing, this classic text continues to
provide clarity and wisdom for living out their calling.
Twenty leading experts in the bioethics debate here engage matters
of dignity and dying from a Christian perspective. The book begins
with essays by David Schiedermayer, Arlene Miller, and Gregory
Waybright that root the book in the experience of dying itself.
This is followed by contributions from Nigel Cameron, John Dunlop,
Marsha Fowler, and Allen Verhey on the topics that provide the
guiding vision for approaches to dignity and dying: autonomy,
death, suffering, and faithfulness. Four of the most pressing
end-of-life challenges-forgoing treatment, medical futility,
definition of death, and assisted suicide/euthanasia-are then
examined by John Kilner, Christopher Hook, Holly Vautier, and
Edmund Pellegrino. The next section, with contributions from Ben
Mitchell, Jerome Wernow, Arthur Dyck, and Henk Jochemsen, is
devoted to investigations of key settings where people have
wrestled with these challenges: Nazi Germany; Oregon; North
American legal systems; and the Netherlands. Finally, the book
concludes with discussions of five potentially constructive
alternatives to the premature ending of life: hospice care (by
Martha Twaddle); long-term care (by James Thobaben); wise advocacy
(by James Reitman); parish nursing (by Norma Small); and
congregational ministry (by Dennis Hollinger).
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