New from celebrated author Mary Elizabeth O'Brien, A Sacred Covenant: The Spiritual Ministry of Nursing focuses on the nurse’s personal spirituality and spiritual needs and is a great companion to her other books especially Spirituality In Nursing: Standing on Holy Ground. Each chapter is based in scripture, both Old and New Testament, providing a broad spiritual grounding for the topics discussed.

Key Themes Explore:

• The nurse-patient covenant
• The nurse as minister
• The nurse’s tradition of service
• The nurse’s compassion
• The nurse’s devotion and commitment to caring
• The nurse’s vulnerability, and
• The nurse’s faith.

Since writing Spirituality In Nursing, I have collected a significant number of additional “nurse’s stories” to flesh out the chapter topics. To enhance the “devotional’ aspect of the work, and also in distinction to Spirituality In Nursing, each chapter begins with a “nurse’s meditation” and ends with a “nurse’s prayer”; these may be used individually or in a group setting such as before a class or a meeting.  While the book has a “devotional” aspect with the inclusion of nurse’s meditations and prayers, topics are also well referenced which is a characteristic appreciated by nurses. 

-Mary Elizabath O'Brien, author