[Answered]: reply to this post: Understanding how your faith…

reply to this post: Understanding how your faith is connected to your daily actions and ultimately your profession in healthcare can greatly impact your care delivery. First and foremost, my beliefs align with care rooted in compassion and empathy, supporting my patients’ resilience and respecting their boundaries. No matter who I am treating, I recognize that they are uniquely individual in their own way and have the same right and dignity to be treated equally and provided exceptional care. Nursing has such a connection with spirituality, with a multitude of care environments rooted in vulnerable times such as end-of-life, birth, and trauma instances, which calls upon nurses to be the person who provides physical and emotional care during these times (University of the Cumberlands, 2022). With this outlined, I think it is a nurse’s professional duty to set boundaries with patients and ensure that beliefs don’t impose on nursing care. This is why conducting a spiritual assessment is essential to guide interventions and determine the extent we can implement spiritual care without overstepping boundaries (Harrad et al., 2019). For many, who have a deep connection with their own faith, it is tightly intertwined with how care is delivered and how decisions are made. For me, I think it is essential to realize that not all of my patients hold the same viewpoints as me, and as a healthcare worker, it is my responsibility to not impose my beliefs but rather provide them with the education and knowledge to make their own informed care decisions.