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Historically, there has be a close relationship between the nursing services and spiritual care provision to patients, arising due to the evolvement of many hospitals and nursing programmes from faith-based institutions and religious order nursing. With increasing secularism, these relationships are less entwined. Nonetheless, as nurses typically encounter patients at critical life events, such as receiving bad news or dying, nurses frequently understand the need and requirement for both spiritual support and religious for patients and families during these times. Yet there are uncertainties, and nurses can feel ill-equipped to deal with patients' spiritual needs. Little education or preparation is provided to these nurses, and they often report a lack of confidence within this area. The development of this confidence and the required competencies is important, especially so with increasingly multicultural societies with diverse spiritual and religious needs. In this manuscript, we discuss initial field work carried out in preparation for the development of an Erasmus Plus educational intervention, entitled from Cure to Care Digital Education and Spiritual Assistance in Healthcare. Referring specifically to post-COVID spirituality needs, this development will support nurses to respond to patients' spiritual needs in the hospital setting, using digital means. This preliminary study revealed that while nurses are actively supporting patients' spiritual needs, their education and training are limited, non-standardised and heterogeneous. Additionally, most spiritual support occurs within the context of a Judeo-Christian framework that may not be suitable for diverse faith and non-faith populations. Educational preparation for nurses to provide spiritual care is therefore urgently required.
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COVID-19 , Spiritual Therapies , Christianity , Hospitals , Humans , SpiritualityABSTRACT
El envejecimiento de la población constituye en los países desarrollados uno de losprincipales desafíos para la salud pública. La innovación tecnológica emerge como una de las 187Cultura de los Cuidados. 3º Cuatrimestre 2021. Año XXV. nº 61respuestas recurrentes y esperanzadoras para abordar este fenómeno de forma sostenible. Serealiza una scoping review sobre el sexo y el género en tecnologías dedicadas a los cuidados quetienen características asimilables a la de los humanos, como la voz, los atributos físicos, lascompetencias sociales y culturales, etc. El resultado aporta veintinueve materiales, once abordanel envejecimiento y/o las relaciones de género en los asistentes de voz, mientras que 18 lo hacensobre tecnología robótica. La revisión crítica de la literatura científica nos permite determinar losprincipales rasgos que caracterizan a los dispositivos vinculándolos con un sexo determinado, yse analizan los dilemas que plantea la perpetuación de los estereotipos de género en relación conestas tecnologías. Por último, se destaca la necesidad de profundizar en las interacciones entrehumanos y tecnologías de los cuidados desde disciplinas como los Science, Tecnology and SocietyStudies o los estudios culturales, para abordar el diseño de tecnologías de asistencia dirigidas apersonas mayores, desde una perspectiva de género.(AU)
Population aging is one of the main challenges to public health in developed countries.Technological innovation is emerging as one of the recurrent and hopeful responses to addressthis phenomenon sustainably. A scoping review is conducted on sex and gender in caretechnologies that have characteristics assimilable to humans, such as voice, physical attributes,social and cultural competencies, etc. The result provides twenty-nine materials. Eleven addressaging and/or gender relations in voice assistants, while 18 address robotic technology. The criticalreview of the scientific literature allows us to determine the main features that characterize thedevices by linking them to a specific sex, and the dilemmas posed by the perpetuation of genderstereotypes concerning these technologies are analyzed. Finally, it highlights the need to deepenthe interactions between humans and care technologies from disciplines such as Science,Technology, and Society Studies or cultural studies, to address the design of assistive technologiesaimed at older people from a gender perspective.(AU)
O envelhecimento da população é um dos maiores desafios para a saúde pública nospaíses desenvolvidos. A inovação tecnológica está a emergir como uma das respostas recorrentese esperançosas para abordar este fenómeno de uma forma sustentável. É realizada uma revisão deâmbito sobre o género e o sexo nas tecnologias de cuidados que têm características semelhantesàs humanas, tais como voz, atributos físicos, competências sociais e culturais, etc. O resultadofornece vinte e nove materiais, onze dos quais abordam o envelhecimento e/ou as relações degénero nos assistentes de voz, enquanto 18 abordam a tecnologia robótica. A revisão crítica daliteratura científica permite-nos determinar as principais características que caracterizam osdispositivos, ligando-os a um sexo específico, e são analisados os dilemas colocados pelaperpetuação de estereótipos de género em relação a estas tecnologias. Finalmente, destaca anecessidade de aprofundar as interacções entre o ser humano e as tecnologias de cuidados desaúde de disciplinas como Ciência, Tecnologia e Estudos da Sociedade ou estudos culturais, paraabordar a concepção de tecnologias de assistência destinadas a pessoas idosas, a partir de umaperspectiva de género.(AU)
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Humans , Aged , Inventions , Aging , Technology , Speech Recognition Software , Biomedical Technology/methods , Nursing Care/methods , NursingABSTRACT
Este artículo explora la importancia productiva de las Humanidades y de las Ciencias Sociales - en particular de la Antropología - a través de la revisión del "impacto" producido en un campo eminentemente empírico: la Medicina. El impacto de las Humanidades en general y la Antropología en particular tiene aquí una doble vertiente: 1) como base crítica epistemológica a una visión positivista "fundamentalista" - la enfermedad es algo meramente biológico - y 2) la incorporación de un nuevo repositorio humanístico en las prácticas contemporáneas. La creciente importancia de las Humanidades en la moderna medicina con la irrupción de la Medicina Basada en Narrativas, movimiento heredero de lo que se ha conocido como "Narrative Turn" en el campo de la Medicina - aquí ofrecemos un estudio de caso alrededor del Trastorno Límite de Persona lidad - cuestiona las aseveraciones que insisten en su falta de productividad y eficacia. Proponemos aquí un movimiento de apertura hacia definiciones de evidencia más incluyentes - en la epistemología y la academia, pero también en la práctica clínica.
This article explores the "productive" importance of the Humanities and Social Sciences - Anthropology particularly - through the revision of the "impact" produced in an eminently empirical field: Medicine, particularly after the hegemony of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM). The impact of the Humanities in general and Anthropology in particular has a two fold meaning: 1) as a critical foundation against the "fundamentalistic" positivist view - disease is something purely biological - and 2) the incorpora tion of a new humanistic repository - maybe better the recovery of many of contemporary practices. The increasing relevance of Humanities on modern medicine with the emergence of Narrative-Based Medicine (NBM), movement of what has become known as "Narrative Turn" in the field of medicine - we offer here a case-study about Borderline Person ality Disorder - challenges the assertions that insist on their lack of productivity and effectiveness. We suggest here an opening movement towards more inclusive definition of evidence-in epistemology and academia, but also in clinical practice.
