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Called to Care: A Christian Worldview for Nursing
IVP Academic
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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.
- | Author: Judith Allen Shelly
- | Publisher: IVP Academic
- | Publication Date: January 26, 2006
- | Number of Pages: 304 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 083082765X
- | ISBN-13: 9780830827657
- Author:
- Judith Allen Shelly
- Publisher:
- IVP Academic
- Publication Date:
- January 26, 2006
- Number of pages:
- 304 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 083082765X
- ISBN-13:
- 9780830827657