1. If you or someone close to you has been hospitalized, how did
the nurses and family members encourage or discourage
dependent behaviors? Independent behaviors?
2. Try to identify your own cultural group’s response to illness.
What are your family’s characteristic responses to illness of a
family member?
3. In a small group, discuss aspects of spiritual nursing care that
you have been exposed to, feel comfortable using, or do not feel
comfortable using. Appoint a group member to monitor those
interventions or behaviors that primarily benefit the patient and
those that primarily benefit the nurse. What stands out to you in
terms of your response to providing spiritual care?
4. Identify the ways you show a caring a
