Natural Disasters and Religious Perceptions

Posted: January 5th, 2023

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Natural Disasters and Religious Perceptions

A community nurse should console and help affected individuals and communities during a natural disaster. People have different views about tragedies depending on their religious perceptions. A community health nurse can assist affected people overcome the pressure following a natural disaster by praying with them [BG1] and restoring hope for them to overcome the situation.

People often share common [BG2] perceptions about natural disasters and ways of coping with stress and loss. Some believe that a natural calamity is an accident, whereas [BG3] others[BG4]  [BG5]  believe that such catastrophes result from punishment from the Almighty because of their spiritual conviction (Holmagaard 15). Some religious believers think God is angry [BG6] about particular behaviors or people’s actions and brings a calamity to punish them. Others even believe that the Almighty sends a disaster to test their faith (Holmagaard 15). [BG7] In contrast, some believers may feel that evil forces [BG8] cause the catastrophe and seek to disrupt peace, stability, and prosperity. Nevertheless, culture plays an essential role in influencing the perception of natural calamities among individuals, communities, and health care providers (Hirono and Blake). The view that some forces, either good or bad, could result in the tragedy depends on whether a particular culture emphasizes religious beliefs or not.

A community health nurse can help in the spiritual care of a person, community, and others notwithstanding different religious views concerning natural calamities. Harrad[BG9]  et al. [BG10] inform that nurses can offer spiritual assistance by attending to several essential spiritual factors, encompassing supporting the individual’s spiritual needs and beliefs (47). A community health nurse can join affected individuals and communities in prayer [BG11] [BG12] to help patients deal with stress, settle on proper medical decisions, and enhance their quality of life (Harrad et al. 48). However, nurses will achieve the best results when they take cues from affected individuals, display [BG13] a positive attitude, and share encouraging words.

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Works Cited

Hirono, Tatsushi, and Michelle Blake. “The Role of Religious Leaders in the Restoration of Hope Following Natural Disasters.” SAGE Open, 2017, [BG15] doi:10.1177/2158244017707003. Accessed 28 Aug. 2021.

Holmagaard, Sanne. “The Role of Religion in Local Perceptions of Disasters: The Case of Post-Tsunami Religious and Social Change in Samo.” Environmental Hazards, vol. 18, no. 4, 2018, pp. 311-[BG16] 25. [BG17] doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2018.1546664. Accessed 28 Aug. 2021.

Harrad,[BG18]  Rachel, et al. “Spiritual Care in Nursing: An Overview of the Measures Used to Assess Spiritual Care Provision and Related Factors [BG19] amongst Nurses.” Acta Biomedica, vol. 90, no. 2019, pp. 44-55. doi:10.23750/abm.v90i4-S.8300. Accessed 28 Aug. 2021.

Dear Sharon,

With minor structure, minor style, grammar, formatting, and careless mistakes, and a 5% fine for reoccurring mistakes, your share of the bid is 70%.

Regards,

Barbara

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 [BG1]Ensure proper word collocations: “a nurse can help by praying together” with someone…

 [BG2]“their own” and “common” are not the same.

 [BG3]Avoid informal linking devices.

 [BG4]Use proper ways to connect your ideas logically with adequate linking devices.

 [BG5]Place such modifiers at the very beginning or end of the sentence to avoid unnecessary excess commas.

 [BG6]“be angry with someone” but “at something”

Use correct prepositions:

https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/angry

 [BG7]As I can see, you do not apply my recommendations.

Use formal transitions.

 [BG8]Prefer verbs to prepositional phrases.

 [BG9]See changes in the works cited page.

 [BG10]The page number should be

 [BG11]Please note that a demonstrative pronoun should always be followed by a noun to avoid vague noun-pronoun reference.

 [BG12]“play functions”? ensure proper word collocations.

 [BG13]Do you think only Christians need spiritual help during disasters?

 [BG14]Why you still fail to apply the page break?

 [BG15]Indicate the date of publication. Only omit details that are not known or not available.

 [BG16]In MLA, Do not repeat the hundreds digit in a page range if it does not change from the beginning to the end of the range.

 [BG17]To remove a single hyperlink without losing the display text or image, right–click the hyperlink, and then click Remove Hyperlink.

 [BG18]Actually, the names of all authors have been inverted in that article that you used, but they did not use commas to distinguish the inversion.

 [BG19]MLA differs from APA on capitalization of minor parts of speech (words of >4 letters do not require capitalization in MLA): http://srjcstaff.santarosa.edu/~kthornle/30/CapitalizationMLAStyle.pdf