• S3E1: When Shame Is Loud
    Jan 23 2026

    Tiegan Pfantz, NCF Staff and practicing nurse, shares her story of overcoming shame.

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    22 mins
  • S2E7: Barriers to Spiritual Care
    Aug 27 2025

    Dr. Kathy Schoonover-Shoffner, Director of NCF and editor of JCN, speaks about the external and internal barriers that might keep nurses from integrating spiritual care into their practice.

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    Collection of FAQs in Spiritual Care from the Journal of Christian Nursing


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    29 mins
  • S2E6: Profoundly Powerful Spiritual Interventions
    Jul 30 2025

    Dr. Kathy Schoonover-Shoffner, Director of NCF and editor of JCN, shares some best practices around spiritual interventions and what makes for profoundly powerful impact on patients and their families.

    Collection of FAQs in Spiritual Care from the Journal of Christian Nursing


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    28 mins
  • S2E5: On The Go Spiritual Assessment
    Jun 26 2025

    Dr. Kathy Schoonover-Shoffner, Director of NCF and editor of JCN, relays simple strategies for busy on the go nurses to spiritually assess patients and begin to explore and understand patients' spiritual needs.

    Collection of FAQs in Spiritual Care from the Journal of Christian Nursing


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    26 mins
  • S2E4: Spirit-Led Spiritual Care
    May 12 2025

    Dr. Kathy Schoonover-Shoffner, Director of NCF and editor of JCN, speaks about how the Holy Spirit leads us in our spiritual care. How do we know if what we are sensing is from the Holy Spirit? Does the spiritual have any place in our work as nurses?

    Collection of FAQs in Spiritual Care from the Journal of Christian Nursing


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    34 mins
  • S2E3: Integrated Spiritual Care
    Apr 21 2025

    Dr. Kathy Schoonover-Shoffner, Director of NCF and editor of JCN, speaks on integrating spiritual care with your nursing practice. How can we do spiritual care naturally as an outflow of who we are? Does it have to take up a ton of extra time or can we incorporate spiritual care with things we're already doing as nurses?

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    31 mins
  • S2E2: Organically Prepared Spiritual Care
    Mar 20 2025

    Dr. Kathy Schoonover-Shoffner, Director of NCF and editor of JCN, speaks on our first topic under A Deeper Dive into Spiritual Care - Organically Preparing for Spiritual Care

    Collection of FAQs in Spiritual Care from the Journal of Christian Nursing


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    31 mins
  • S2E1: A Deeper Dive Into Spiritual Care
    Feb 12 2025

    Dr. Kathy Schoonover-Shoffner, Director of NCF and editor of JCN, introduces our season 2 theme - A Deeper Dive into Spiritual Care.

    Collection of FAQs in Spiritual Care from the Journal of Christian Nursing


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    24 mins