Fast Fact #19 presents one approach to taking a spiritual history. This Fast Fact discusses the FICA Spiritual History Tool© (
Faith, Importance/Influence, Community, Action/Address in care
).
What is one purpose the FICA spiritual assessment tool serves for patients?
The FICA Spiritual History Tool was developed to
help health care professionals address spiritual issues with patients
. Spiritual histories are taken as part of the regular patient history during an annual exam or new patient visit, but can also be taken as part of follow-up visits, as appropriate.
What is FICA spiritual assessment?
The FICA tool is based on four domains of spiritual assessment:
the presence of Faith, belief, or meaning
; the Importance of spirituality on an individual’s life and the influence that belief system or values has on the person’s health care decision making; the individual’s spiritual Community; and interventions to …
What is a spiritual assessment?
The spiritual assessment
allows physicians to support patients by stressing empathetic listening, documenting spiritual preferences for future visits
, incorporating the precepts of patients’ faith traditions into treatment plans, and encouraging patients to use the resources of their spiritual traditions and …
What is hope spiritual assessment?
A spiritual assessment as part of a medical encounter is
a practical first step in incorporating consideration of a patient’s spirituality into medical practice
. The HOPE questions provide a formal tool that may be used in this process.
What is the purpose of the FICA model?
The FICA tool is based on four domains of spiritual assessment: the presence of Faith, belief, or meaning; the
Importance of spirituality on an individual’s life
and the influence that belief system or values has on the person’s health care decision making; the individual’s spiritual Community; and interventions to …
Which question would be appropriate for the F in the FICA spiritual assessment tool?
Which question would be appropriate for the F in the FICA spiritual assessment tool? “F”
is for questions of faith
. Some examples of questions to ask would include the following: Do you consider yourself a spiritual person? What gives your life meaning?
What is the spiritual well being scale?
The Spiritual Well Being Scale (SWBS) (Paloutzian & Ellison, 1982) is
a 20 item scale that measures an individual’s well-being and overall life satisfaction on two dimensions
: (1) religious well-being, and (2) existential well-being.
Which aspect of life is assessed using the FICA approach?
The acronym related to the
assessment of spirituality
is FICA, which stands for faith and beliefs, importance and influence, community, and address. FACES is a pain scale frequently used with children.
Why is spiritual assessment important in nursing?
A spiritual assessment
assists the nurse in planning holistic nursing care
. Whether the nurse is unclear about the patient’s spiritual belief or the patient has a spiritual belief unfamiliar to the nurse, acronym models such as FICA provide the basis for an organized, open and non-biased assessment.
What are the 5 types of instruments used for spiritual assessment?
These six qualitative instruments consist of a brief assessment instrument and five comprehensive Page 3 SPIRITUAL ASSESSMENT 3 instruments: one completely verbal approach—spiritual histories—and
four penandpaper, diagrammatic approaches—spiritual lifemaps, spiritual genograms, spiritual ecomaps, and spiritual ecograms
…
What are some spiritual issues?
- Feelings of anger or hopelessness.
- Feelings of depression and anxiety.
- Difficulty sleeping.
- Feeling abandoned by God.
- Questioning the meaning of life or suffering.
- Questioning beliefs or sudden doubt in spiritual or religious beliefs.
- Asking why this situation occurred.
What are spiritual concerns?
Spiritual Concerns.
Religious beliefs and practices can both help and hurt a person with a mental illness
. Harold Koenig states that “it is no longer possible to argue that religious involvement is usually neurotic, harmful, or incompatible with mental health, as once claimed.
How do you assess spiritual needs of a patient?
Most of these assessment tools involve asking the patient questions about their personal spirituality and rituals, faith and beliefs, resources and expectations. They consist of open questions; this enables the assessment of specific aspects of the patient’s beliefs and promotes inclusion.
What is the purpose of a spiritual journal?
A spiritual journal is
a great way to track how you are growing spiritually
. This type of journal is different from the traditional journal or diary in that it focuses on your spiritual self. A spiritual journal can aid you in becoming who you wish to be.
What are the steps in conducting spiritual assessment?
A three-step process was used to develop the Spiritual Distress Assessment Tool (SDAT):
1
) Conceptualisation by a multidisciplinary group of a model (Spiritual Needs Model) to define the different dimensions characterizing a patient’s spirituality and their corresponding needs; 2) Operationalisation of the Spiritual …
