To teach nurses and other health professionals to provide integrated holistic care safely, especially when chaplains are not available, for example during Covid-19. The focus is to address patient Spiritual Distress and support nurses suffering from Moral Injury.
Nursing Spirituality on-line course approved for 9 CEU's through the Ohio Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services (OhioMHAS). The "Integrating Spiritual Healthcare Interventions into Nursing & Clinical Practice" course teaches providers spiritual interventions for patient care of Spiritual Distress. The group discussion, writing, reflection process, similar to chaplain training, also assists providers with interventions to combat Moral Injury. This six-session course teaches basic skills providing emergent spiritual care for suffering patients as part of normative nursing care since the inception of nursing with Florence Nightingale. This course is helpful for other health care professionals as well. Discussion includes respectful dialogue of all faith traditions found in patient care.
See extensive research, nursing and pastoral and moral theology resources which will be discussed in class.
See significant positive research outcomes related to spiritual care, especially when adressing nurse depression and suicide.
Teresa Durbak Sipos DMin, RN serves as a behavioral healthcare chaplain and has taught mental health & addictions nursing for many years at three state universities.
Teresa is the author of "Integrating Spiritual Healthcare Interventions into Nursing Praxis: An Educational Intervention" and "Spiritual interventions may alleviate moral injury and depression among nurses".
Teresa was awarded the St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta Service Award by the Central Ohio Catholic Medical Association, chairs the Catholic Nurses Columbus Council of the National Association of Catholic Nurses (https://nacn-usa.org/) and serves on the board for the International Institute for Trauma Recovery.
As a speaker at national nursing and chaplain conferences, and the recent St. John Paul II Foundation bioethics conference at the Pontifical College Josephinum, Teresa also provides a more in-depth reflective nursing and clinical spirituality course, which is available at your healthcare facility, parish retreat center, and on-line.
This nursing and clinical spirituality course was developed as practical moral theology, bioethics, and pastoral healthcare with appropriate clinical interventions. The hope and prayer is for holistic healing of patients, clinicians, and nurses.
Both Teresa and husband Gene serve as Missionaries of the Precious Blood Companions and live in central Ohio near their children and grandchildren, with their rescue dog Bleu.
